[Wylug-discuss] Re: [Wylug-help] Lost network printing

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Monday 09 Jan 2006 15:45, John Hodrien wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> No doubt it is something I did, while trying to find my way around
>>> debian, but I've lost the connection to my networked printers.
>>> They were working fine a few days ago.
>>>
>>> I've checked /etc/cups/client.conf and the server name is still
>>> defined. I can samba-mount the box with the printers.  I can ping
>>> the box by name.
>>>
>>> What have I missed?  How can I get those printers recognised again?
>>
>> Odd.  If you've got the servername defined in client.conf, then
>> there's nothing else to configure on a client machine.
>>
>> What does lpstat -v return?
>>
> It lists all four instances of the printer.

So it's definitely talking to your cups server.  What does lpq give, and how
about just printing something from the commandline with lpr?


jh

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