I'm trying to use a printer attached to a USB port on a remote machine, but I get the above message. I can access the computer in question with -------------------------------- [tim@alice ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.2 631 Trying 192.168.2.2... Connected to 192.168.2.2. Escape character is '^]'. --------------------------------
I suspect the problem is that the printer is not found, whatever name I give to it. I see -------------------------------- [Job 66] Unable to get printer status (Forbidden) -------------------------------- in /var/log/cups/error_log on the client machine.
Any elucidation gratefully received.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:54:47PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to use a printer attached to a USB port on a remote machine, but I get the above message. I can access the computer in question with
[tim@alice ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.2 631 Trying 192.168.2.2... Connected to 192.168.2.2. Escape character is '^]'.
I suspect the problem is that the printer is not found, whatever name I give to it. I see
[Job 66] Unable to get printer status (Forbidden)
in /var/log/cups/error_log on the client machine.
Any elucidation gratefully received.
You may need to login to the printserver and enable remote visibility and or access. Things like "Allow remote administration" and "Share published printers" and "Allow printing from internet" may all come to play.
The fact that you see Forbidden in contrast to "Connection refused" tells me that the printserver is up and active. The admin (you?) of that box needs to enable the correct remote services.
I like to ssh into a remote box and with X11 remote display run system-config-printer to set the property needed.
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 23:54 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to use a printer attached to a USB port on a remote machine, but I get the above message. I can access the computer in question with
[tim@alice ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.2 631 Trying 192.168.2.2... Connected to 192.168.2.2. Escape character is '^]'.
I suspect the problem is that the printer is not found, whatever name I give to it. I see
[Job 66] Unable to get printer status (Forbidden)
in /var/log/cups/error_log on the client machine.
Any elucidation gratefully received.
I suspect the printer on the print server is not set up to be shared. Can other machines print to it? -- ======================================================================= I'm ANN LANDERS!! I can SHOPLIFT!! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
Aaron Konstam wrote:
I'm trying to use a printer attached to a USB port on a remote machine, but I get the above message.
I suspect the printer on the print server is not set up to be shared. Can other machines print to it?
Thanks for the suggestion, but the line Shared Yes does appear in /etc/cups/printers.conf on the server.
I'll try printing from another machine. At present this printer (an HP Photosmart C4280) is out of commission - the paper feed is not working, I suspect because building work has been going on in the room where it is situated, and it got very dusty.
I do find CUPS error messages extraordinarily unhelpful. This one, for example, seems to imply that there is some way of determining the "printer status". The only way I know is to run lpc on the server, but this gives: ------------------------------- [tim@helen cups]$ lpc lpc> status HP_Photosmart_C4200_series_USB_MY797KM03904VP_HPLIP: printer is on device 'hp' speed -1 queuing is enabled printing is enabled 1 entries daemon present -------------------------------
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to use a printer attached to a USB port on a remote machine, but I get the above message. I can access the computer in question with
[tim@alice ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.2 631 Trying 192.168.2.2... Connected to 192.168.2.2. Escape character is '^]'.
I suspect the problem is that the printer is not found, whatever name I give to it. I see
[Job 66] Unable to get printer status (Forbidden)
in /var/log/cups/error_log on the client machine.
Any elucidation gratefully received.
cups (IPP) works through port 631 tcp (and udp ?). Make certain they are not locked down.
~~R
Richard England wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to use a printer attached to a USB port on a remote machine, but I get the above message. I can access the computer in question with
[tim@alice ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.2 631 Trying 192.168.2.2... Connected to 192.168.2.2. Escape character is '^]'.
cups (IPP) works through port 631 tcp (and udp ?). Make certain they are not locked down.
Doesn't the telnet response above show it is not "locked down"?