[PLUG] phantom printer on CUPS, cannot share printer

[Petcher, Danielx J]

I see you've already found your solution. When I was struggling with CUPS a
while ago on a single-user system, I did the lazy thing: I loaded-up Knoppix
(where I had seen it working) and poked-around in the configuration files. 

What can I say? I'm lazy that way.

-djp 
http://folding.stanford.edu - the brain you save may be your own!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carla Schroder [mailto:pluglist at bratgrrl.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 7:58 PM
> 
> Once again, lured by the promise of "Don't worry, it's easy!" I tried to
> set
> up a CUPS print server on my LAN. Before launching into a long tale of
> woe,
> and appending endless config files and log dumps, perhaps a brief
> description
> of the symptoms will serve:
> 
> I can use CUPS fine with local printers on /dev/lp0, no problem at all. I
> have
> the official CUPS books, CUPS: Common Unix Printing System, by Michael
> Sweet.
> It's better as a guide for someone who wants to write printer drivers,
> than
> for an ole country sysadmin who just wants to print things. I edited
> cupsd.conf according to the book. CUPS then added a phantom printer, in
> addition to the local printer, naming it HP6L:
> 
> "Remote Printer on unknown
> Description: No Information Available
> Location: Location Unknown
> Printer State: stopped, rejecting jobs."
> 
> Cannot delete it, cannot start it, the only thing that can be done is
> client
> machines connect to it with the greatest of ease, even Windows. That's
> right,
> without Samba even. But neither linux nor windows can print to this stupid
> thing, because it's really not there.
> 
> I have tried manually editing the configs, trying the various network
> protocols, and not a blessed one of em works. I have The Official Book and
> the online docs. No answers there.
> 
> Thanks in advance for brilliant advice. ;-)
> 
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