Re: Cups
On Thursday 05 December 2002 10:54, sdownes wrote:
> Struggling with Cups.
>
> It is installed with apt-get
> I can print a test page OK from Cups
> I can print through cups from my windows box
> Cups is updating /etc/printcap when I modify the printer
>
> Printing from Abiword to lp does nothing
> command line (lp -d lp@rm "filename") returns:-
> lp unable to print file server-error-service-unavailable
> from a remote host or:-
> job queued but cant start daemon
> (it isn't queued in cups)
>
> Gotta be something simple - but less simple than me
>
> Steve
Cups don't use /etc/printcap. I had the problem with CUPS that dselect had
installed both lpd and cups which are incompatible. If this is your case you
have to deinstall lpd and reinstall cups.
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