Re: [Sheflug] Printing woes

[Steve Tickle <s.tickle [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:26 04/12/02 +0000, Alec Melling wrote:


> Don't know if this is in anyway connected to the above problem, but when I
> installed SUSE 8.1 I could not get Sane or Gimp to print, though no problem
> with Open Office, Kmail and so on.
>
> I pressed lots of buttons with no luck.... mainly because I have no real in
> deapth knowledge of Linux yet. In the end I uninstalled CUPS and installed
> LPrng since then no problem in terms of printing in general but obviously
> losing out on the benifits of CUPS.
>
> I have not followed up on this, but would be interested if there is something
> else I could have done to retain CUPS and print from Sane and Gimp
Installed CUPS on a couple of SuSE 8.0 boxes, one had a printer physically 
connected, the other one printed over the network to the first.

I could get the box with the printer physically connected to work just fine 
but I couldn't get the second box to print over the network. I can't 
remember what error message I used to get now and never got to the bottom 
of the problem, I just reinstalled LPrng. Maybe it was a fundamental 
problem with CUPS or possibly an obscure permissions problem... maybe the 
YaST scripts were buggy.

Steve

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