Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I have the IP listed as the servername that the client is printing to but it doesn't help. IP is OK I have entered a fake one ie <hostname>.home.net.za but should I rather leave it as the IP address?
leave it as IP.
I haven't seen the network lights flashing at all, let alone every 30 secs. Perhaps the IPP broadcast isn't happening? Do you run a firewall? Is tcp 631 open? Does root need to be logged on the server for CUPS to function or can the host just be powered on and waiting at the KDE login manager?
If it is set to start on boot, it will start on boot no matter if anyone is logged in. It runs as lp user.
Its almost as though the client cannot detect the CUPS server either because the server is not IPP'ing or, using Windows terminology, the printer isn't available or shared.
Cups is quite easy when properly configured to work over a network. There are some excellent articles by Johannes Meixner in the support database for getting cups working. I would suggest reading through them if you are having problems. He gives some very helpful command line tools that are actually more helpful when you have problems. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871