Re: [tlug] printing problem SOLVED

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:13:03PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Michal" == Michal Hajek <hajek1@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Michal> I cannot say for sure, but it looks like the problem was
>     Michal> caused by cups package upgrades...
> 


> ROTFL!  I was just being a cranky old BOFH/hacker!


The cups upgrade is more of a ROTFL where the L stands for Lamenting.
It broke many things, such as direct connections with USB or parellel
ports and printing to a Unix or Unixlike server from Windows and Macs.

1.2.1 fixed the samba issue (untested with the Mac, which wasn't using
samba--by then I'd given up and put the printer on a JetDirect) and
there are fixes, at least in FreeBSD, for the parallel/USB problem but 
googling when I first had my issues showed that the problems were
neither distro nor O/S specific.  ;)

As I used workarounds, and have been too busy to keep up with it, I'm
not sure how many of the other issues have been fixed yet. 


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