Re: Printer Problems
On (19/11/04 14:29), Noah Durell wrote:
> Hello,
> I seem to be getting this error when I try to add a network printer to
> my printer list in KDE:
>
> Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:
> Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is
> correctly installed and running. Error: the IPP request failed for an
> unknown reason.
>
> This is actually a new error for me. But before when the server was
> working I tried to add a printer and it would work for printing test
> pages but not for printing in other programs. I am pretty sure that the
> CUPS is installed and running because I can see it running in top. Any
> help with this would be most appreciated.
Hi Noah
FWIW I could never get IPP printing to work and resorted to setting up
network printers via Samba (smb) protocol. The device URI is:
smb://<domain>/<server>/<printer_name>
The network printer needs to be made available via smb.conf
Hava a look at: http://www.cups.org/sam.html
HTH
Clive
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