HELP -------- Can't print using 3.3 Mini

[dnagel53]

I just am trying out 3.3 mini. I have got everything working, except the printer. When I click the System/Manage Printing menu, I get a "404 Not Found" error in my browser. When I use the KDE front end it seems that everything is installing properly; but, when I try to test the printer, nothing happens. I am using a Samsung Laser printer on an Ethernet to USB hub. The printer works okay in all the other distros. I use lpd://192.168.15.4 when asked for the printer address. That is what I use in the other distros. I have never had a problem with this until now.

[Darksurf]

you should try to emerge the latest version of cups and use the web interface frontend to configure and install the printer easily and properly. CUPS is very nice, and becomes more user friendly all the time. do some research on that printer in linux and find what driver it uses, then install it using CUPS.

[dnagel53]

Well, I emerged cups and am still getting "404 Not Found" error on Firefox when I use "http://localhost:631" to try and access the cups interface.

[eduardhc]

Well, I emerged cups and am still getting "404 Not Found" error on Firefox when I use "http://localhost:631" to try and access the cups interface.

Have you started CUPS? Try the following from the root account:

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/etc/init.d/cupsd start


To automatically start it at startup:

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rc-update add cupsd default


Cheers

[chickpea]

Are you perhaps blocking access via firewall? This can also cause 404 Not Founds.

[dnagel53]

So here is what I did and the responses I received.

localhost ~ # /etc/init.d/cupsd start
* Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* WARNING: cupsd has already been started.
localhost ~ # rc-update add cupsd default
* cupsd already installed in runlevel 'default'; skipping
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ #

How do I check the firewall to see what is being blocked?

[Ron.W]

I use lpd://192.168.15.4 when asked for the printer address.

As far as I can remember you need to specify a printer-queue when using lpd protocol.

How do I check the firewall to see what is being blocked?

I think this was

iptables --list


Moreover you could try

/etc/init.d/cups.d restart


Ron.

[dnagel53]

Nope, restart didn't work.
Still am getting "404 Not Found" error when trying to access cups interface in Firefox browser.

The output from iptables...

localhost ~ # iptables --list
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

I don't know what this all means...

[Ron.W]

OK, this output means, you have not set up firewall using iptables. If you've had something blocked, it would have been listed there.

Next try in console-window with root privileges:

lpstat -t

this command should tell you first, whether your cups-system is running or not like this:

Scheduler läuft

Also this should list the printers configured in your system. If you are using an lpd-queue named "Canon-BJC-2100" on 192.168.15.4 you should find in the output of the command something like this:

[...]
Gerät für CanonBJC2100: lpd://192.168.15.4/Canon-BJC-2100
[...]

In order to set up the cups-system manually, you should refer to
http://www.cups.org/documentation
where is described in detail how to set up and start your cups system manually.


Ron.

[dnagel53]

So, here is what I got from lpstat -t:

scheduler is running
system default destination: LaserPrinter
device for LaserPrinter: lpd://192.168.15.4
LaserPrinter accepting requests since Sat 19 May 2007 05:22:25 PM MDT
printer LaserPrinter disabled since Sat 19 May 2007 05:22:25 PM MDT -
Backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd does not exist!

Is the last line why I can't print? I'll see if I can find out by looking at the cups documentation that was in the last post by Ron.