[7746] in testers
Athena 10 printing/configuring a local CUPS printer (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Fri Oct 17 21:25:41 2008
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:24:56 -0400 (EDT)
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It seems that some people send discussion emails regarding Athena 10 to
athena10@, and some people send to testers@. I don't think either list is
a subset of the other, which seems potentially non-ideal. Perhaps we
should add athena10@ to testers@ (since it is the smaller of the two)?
-Tim Abbott
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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:30:23 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Athena 10 printing/configuring a local CUPS printer
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to understand Athena 10 printing problems, and in the
process of doing this I'm trying to configure a local printer, which
I'm so far unable to do successfully. I believe if I can do this I'll
be able to get a local printer option to appear in many application
printer dialogs which currently only offer me a choice of one of the
predefined public printers around campus.
I also want to try various edits to printer entries in /etc/cups/printers.conf
which various people claim fix Java printing. At the moment this file only
has an entry for a printer "PDF", presumably because no local printers are
configured.
I've tried using system-config-printer, and I can get it to set up a
local printer for me which it finds on the network, but when I try to
print a test page to it (from system-config-printer) nothing prints,
nor do I get any printout when I try to print to it from various
applications (like Matlab and Open Office), even though the printer
appears in the printer pick list. I didn't forget to stop and restart the
CUPS server in case that matters. There's no obvious error message.
I may not be configuring things correctly as I know little about CUPS
printing. The device URI that system-config-printer generated was:
hp:/net/HP_Color_LaserJet_3800?ip=18.152.0.62
(the IP address is correct). I have no idea if it's supposed to look like
this or not; if anyone can help I'd much appreciate it. I used google-mit
to look for other /etc/cups/printers.conf files, and most had URIs in
another format. I tried to edit mine to look like those (for example
DeviceURI klpr://hesiod/acantha), but that didn't help (my printer uses
kerb5 authentication per the pcap entry).
Alex
