I rarely, but occasionally, need to print from XP. One printer is installed on an FC4 box and serves two other FC boxes plus a dual-boot laptop.
Following Tim's instructions I used system-config-printer to install a raw queue. Now, if I print direct to the raw queue I get a basic, one-sided print, with few options. If I attempt to print to the other print-queues set up, which XP can see, the file leaves the laptop and is somehow diverted to the raw queue. Unfortunately, unlike the direct print, it just sits there, doing nothing and bunging up the works.
In this sort of situation I would normally use the cups interface to delete the job (as root, of course). I am told that I (root) do not have permission to do that. I had to re-start cups to get rid of it.
Something, I don't know what, stops the printer as well. Again, I would, as root, normally just start the printer again. No - I don't have permission. I had to hover over the button to see the command, then use a root terminal to send the command to re-start it.
Maybe all this mess is caused by the oft-quoted problems of using cups and system-config-printer. I don't know. All I do know is that it is a mess, where it used to be fine.
Just to make things worse I have promised to help some newbies at a LUG to configure their samba. If I can't demonstrate a working system I shall look a real fool.
Anne
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:42:24 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
I rarely, but occasionally, need to print from XP. One printer is installed on an FC4 box and serves two other FC boxes plus a dual-boot laptop.
Following Tim's instructions I used system-config-printer to install a raw queue. Now, if I print direct to the raw queue I get a basic, one-sided print, with few options. If I attempt to print to the other print-queues set up, which XP can see, the file leaves the laptop and is somehow diverted to the raw queue. Unfortunately, unlike the direct print, it just sits there, doing nothing and bunging up the works.
You might have already done this, but just in case... In /etc/cups/mimes.convs and /etc/cups/mimes.types, you may need to uncomment the lines related to raw printing.
Akemi
On Friday 17 November 2006 17:03, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:42:24 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
I rarely, but occasionally, need to print from XP. One printer is installed on an FC4 box and serves two other FC boxes plus a dual-boot laptop.
Following Tim's instructions I used system-config-printer to install a raw queue. Now, if I print direct to the raw queue I get a basic, one-sided print, with few options. If I attempt to print to the other print-queues set up, which XP can see, the file leaves the laptop and is somehow diverted to the raw queue. Unfortunately, unlike the direct print, it just sits there, doing nothing and bunging up the works.
You might have already done this, but just in case... In /etc/cups/mimes.convs and /etc/cups/mimes.types, you may need to uncomment the lines related to raw printing.
Thanks, Akemi. That was probably part of the problem at least.
The current situation is that, thanks to Tim's off-list help, I have the printing working perfectly. The problem is that neither he nor I are quite sure why.
I uncommented this line (near the end of /etc/cups/mimes.convs #application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0
but that didn't seem to make any difference. OTOH, that doesn't mean that it has no significance.
I changed the loglevel to debug2
and I emptied the error log ' >/var/log/cups/error_log'.
That is, I think, all we have done, yet it now works! I find it hard to believe that this would solve problems for someone else, but just in case I thought I had better document it here.
Anne
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