I have a remote printer queue on a machine in my network. CUPS has found it and auto-configured it. However It doesn't print correctly - it seems that it it trying to print on legal or A4 instead of letter. The local printer (on the remote machine) is set to letter as is my local document. If I go to http://localhost:631/ choose 'Manage Printers' and try to do anything (Delete Printer, Configure Printer, etc) I get this: Forbidden You don't have permission to access the resource on this server. I can choose 'add printer' and it works... Any Ideas ? Also any recommendations on an easy to understand, easy to follow, etc CUPS tutorial, web page, book, other that will help me understand how to manage local and remote printers in my network ?? Thanks in advance for your help..... /Kevin
On Friday 10 February 2006 19:22, kevin.kempter@dataintellect.com wrote:
Also any recommendations on an easy to understand, easy to follow, etc CUPS tutorial, web page, book, other that will help me understand how to manage local and remote printers in my network ??
As a rule of thumb, stick to YaST2 for configuring anything related to printing. It's much more capable than the CUPS' own tools. On the remote computer the printer should be configured with YaST and have a default paper size (letter). It should have local filtering enabled. On your computer try printing something from KDE and look around the KDE printing dialog to setup page size.
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 19:35 +0200, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Friday 10 February 2006 19:22, kevin.kempter@dataintellect.com wrote:
Also any recommendations on an easy to understand, easy to follow, etc CUPS tutorial, web page, book, other that will help me understand how to manage local and remote printers in my network ??
As a rule of thumb, stick to YaST2 for configuring anything related to printing. It's much more capable than the CUPS' own tools.
On the remote computer the printer should be configured with YaST and have a default paper size (letter). It should have local filtering enabled.
On your computer try printing something from KDE and look around the KDE printing dialog to setup page size.
I find that KPrintManager is better than using YaST to configure printers. To each their own. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Friday 10 February 2006 10:22 am, kevin.kempter@dataintellect.com wrote:
I have a remote printer queue on a machine in my network. CUPS has found it and auto-configured it. However It doesn't print correctly - it seems that it it trying to print on legal or A4 instead of letter. The local printer (on the remote machine) is set to letter as is my local document.
Just a thought (I'm no expert on this...) In CUPS there is an option do local filtering for remote printer queues. Is that selected and could that be set to the wrong paper size and override the remote machine's filter? -- Don
On Friday 10 February 2006 19:36, Don Raboud wrote:
On Friday 10 February 2006 10:22 am, kevin.kempter@dataintellect.com wrote:
I have a remote printer queue on a machine in my network. CUPS has found it and auto-configured it. However It doesn't print correctly - it seems that it it trying to print on legal or A4 instead of letter. The local printer (on the remote machine) is set to letter as is my local document.
Just a thought (I'm no expert on this...)
In CUPS there is an option do local filtering for remote printer queues. Is that selected and could that be set to the wrong paper size and override the remote machine's filter?
I don't think that filtering twice, local and remote, would work. Except if the remote filter has a way to detect if the printjob data was already filtered and forward it raw to the printer.
Hello, On Feb 10 10:22 kevin.kempter@dataintellect.com wrote (shortened):
any recommendations on an easy to understand, easy to follow, etc CUPS tutorial, web page, book, other that will help me understand how to manage local and remote printers in my network ??
It is always a good idea to have a look at our manual and have a look at our support database where you will find a lot of information regarding printer setup. For example on Suse Linux 10.0 see file:///usr/share/doc/manual/suselinux-manual_en/manual/cha.p.html or in our support database see for example http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jsmeix_print-cups-in-a-nutshell.html and http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/11/jsmeix_print-cups-options.html Of course CUPS has its own documentation, see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jsmeix_print-cups-in-a-nutshell.html how to access it. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
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