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Re: Athena 10 printing/configuring a local CUPS printer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Sat Oct 18 12:21:27 2008
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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:20:40 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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A klpr:// style URI won't work - that's not a URI backend that's
included by default, and is probably related to jdreed's LPRng-for-OS-X
software, and in general there's currently no way to do authenticated
printing through CUPS.
It looks like there's an IP ACL in place for hero-p, according to the
output from chpcheck, which would restrict jobs from coming in from
anywhere but the print servers.
The URI you want to try adding is <lpd://husq.mit.edu/hero>.
- Evan
Alex T Prengel wrote:
> 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
>
