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