[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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