On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:41, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Still a no-go :( Comments below.
A while back I wrote up a Howto on setting up CUPS for Client/Server operation. I believe that the information is still relevant in getting printing working. Please have a look at it at http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/faq/cups.html Thanks for that Graham. I read it and looked at both the cupsd.conf on
Graham Smith wrote: the server and the client.conf on the client and didn't, to my limited knowledge, see anything missing as such.
Note: I generally use the IP numbers for the Servername in both the /etc/cups/client.conf and the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf as it then doesn't rely on entries in /etc/hosts or setting up a internal DNS server to do the conversion.
I have the IP listed as the servername that the client is printing to but it doesn't help. :( After a few changes of the above files now not even the IP works as a hostname. :( I notice that in the client.conf you mention that the #ServerName has to be a FQDN. I only have the IP address of the server. The IP range is in the 192.168 range and there is no FQDN at all. I have entered a fake one ie <hostname>.home.net.za but should I rather leave it as the IP address? Just reading my 9.0 admin manual and it says that the client and server communicate via IPP and that the server broadcasts its status every 30 seconds. I haven't seen the network lights flashing at all, let alone every 30 secs. Perhaps the IPP broadcast isn't happening? Where/which file can I edit to check it is working, or is it controlled by some almost non existent sys/config file? 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? 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. I've missed something somewhere!! Shall I send my 2 files to the list? Further ideas Kastus, Graham, anyone?? -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================