[PLUG] Remote Printing From Xubuntu Laptop

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Apr 8 17:05:00 UTC 2008


On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   Question for all you ?ubuntu SysAdmins.
>
>   When my wife sends a file to be printed from her laptop, and the 
> printer is off, instead of landing in the print server queue it 
> tries to reach the printer and reports failure.
>
>   Having not had this situation before (print jobs always went into 
> the queue) I'm not sure where to look in this distribution.

It sounds like her machine is sending jobs directly to the printer, 
not to another computer acting as a print server.

What does the DeviceURI setting look like in /etc/cups/printers.conf?

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