Re: CUPS

[Randy Yarger <randy@yarger.net>]

Try this suggestion:
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2001-December/063385.html
It worked for me, just last night. (Basically, uncomment the two lines
that are commented out at the bottom of mime.types and mime.convs in
/etc/cups).

For your reference, it was the first hit that appeared when I searched
google for 'cups application/octet-stream'.

-Randy Yarger
randy@yarger.net

On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 22:40, dman wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:35:36PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
> | * dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote:
> | > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:04:08PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
> <...>
> | > | I did that, though I think I still need to do something else.
> | > | Instructions I had seen elsewhere said "http://localhost:631";.  The
> | > 
> | > That is the URL for the "home page", if you will.  That gives you
> | > access to everything.
> | > 
> | <snip>
> | > What sort of file did you try sending?
> | > 
> | > Did you try the "Print Test Page" button in the printer's queue
> | > display in the web interface?
> |
> | That's the one.  I also tried printing from the command line, with the 
> | same message.  In /var/log/cups/error_log, it says "print job: Unsupported
> | format 'application/postscript' or ~ 'application/octet-stream', depending 
> | on whether it's the test page or a text file.
> | 
> | Further, when I try to change the configuration, I get a basically blank 
> | screen
> | 
> | Any ideas?
> 
> Sorry, I don't know what the cause of this problem is.
> 
> -D
> 
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