Topic: Printing doesn't work

[chrislaurie]

Hi All

I am trying to find out why my SME 6.01 wont print.

I did install the CUPS contrib but followed the uninstall instructions carefully. I can load a printer and it shows up in the server-manager and from Windows side but nothing prints.

I have been on the LPRing site. Most of the test commands works except this one:

root# lpq -a

The return message is

lpq: unable to contact server

I have the lprng-monitor contrib installed and it sees the printer but nothing prints when I het the print test page button.

Anybody have a howto on debugging the print services in SME?

Cheers

Chris

[onsy]

Hi,

Seems your lpd doesn't listen to printing request...

Verify by :

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netstat -vapn |grep lpd  

Should give you a line like that one :

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:515             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3910/lpd Waiting

If not, you have to enable it again.

[chrislaurie]

Thanx a lot for the repsonse. When I do the netstat thing I get the following response:

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:515             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      12223/lpd Waiting  
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     5538032 12223/lpd Waiting   /var/run/lprng

So it seems Ok from your email.

Anything else I can try?

Cheers

Chris