[tlug] Re: cups and networking

["Gernot Hassenpflug" <aikishugyo@example.com>]

Original message:
> From: Darren Cook <darren@example.com>
> Subject: [tlug] cups and networking
>
> So, I got the Brother HL-2040, awfully exciting. It didn't quite
> auto-detect, but I got the test page printing locally from my server by
> installing the Brother RPMs, and following their instructions. I also
> added it to Samba but haven't tested if that works yet.

Cups lives on its own planet...
I see that the printer works "mostly" under linux:
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-2040
and there is a PPD to download which you can use when you modify CUPS.
You might try installing the printer as a duplicate and testing that
PPD locally too.

You don't say what OS you use, I don't have experience with any
RPM-based distro. Your linke for setup was for Solaris, oops, no idea.
Maybe check the CUPS installation on the server to see whether you are
allowing connections from the network. If that is so, you might be
able to auto-discover the printer in the web-based CUPS setup when you
say add printer (localhost:631).

> It didn't complain, but when I try to print a test page I get:
> [Job 479] Network host 'myserver' is busy, down, or unreachable; will
> retry in 30 seconds...

I get that error sometimes if the printer setup is wrong (PPD
incorrect, connection setting wrong), sometimes I get a backend
failure.

Not much else I can advise right now, I'm tired of CUPS for the week :-)
(spent a week getting all the printers, from Canon, Epson,
Konica-Minolta, HP all recognized by my linux system, some people even
came to thank me when they could print via my CUPS server... that was
a pleasant reaction).
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Gernot Hassenpflug