Cups upgrade from RHEL4 (cups-1.1.22) to RHEL6 x64 (cups-1.4.2)

[Greg Jones]

> Hi,
>
> First some info...
>
> On old server running RHEL4 x32 with v1.1 of cups queues were created as follows:
> lpadmin -p lp4 -E  -i /usr/lib/cups/filter/EpsonToPS -v beh:/1/0/1/socket://lp4:9100
>
> And also enabled raw printing from remote with the following:
> mime.convs:application/octet-stream     application/vnd.cups-raw        0       -
> mime.types:application/octet-stream
>
> On new server running RHEL6 x64 with v1.4 of cups queues created as follows:
> lpadmin -p lp4 -E  -i /usr/lib/cups/filter/EpsonToPS -v beh:/1/0/1/socket://lp4:9100
>
> And copied the mime.convs and mime.types from our old server.
>
>
> The problem is that any raw print jobs from RHEL4 v32 clients to the new x64 server do not work. I get the raw postscript text processed by the filter! Raw jobs to the old x32 server are ok.
>
> The command on the client RHEL4 x32 is
> lp -d lp4 -o raw /usr/share/apps/kdeprint/testprint.ps
>
> What has changed?
>

Another thing we've noticed is that RHEL4 x32 clients pointing to the new server, the lpstat -o command returns 'lpstat: get-jobs failed: client-error-bad-request'. Although not terribly critical, it would be nice to get this fixed too.

Thanks.

G.