[gentoo-user] Cups not seeing a wireless host

[gentoo-user] Cups not seeing a wireless host

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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This is the third in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on a
separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and Windows Vista.

I have a cups server on my gentoo system, and it serves its own jobs and
those of a WinXP host that's on my LAN.  The XP host is set up to use the
Gentoo system as an LPD server, using the drivers I loaded off the XP
install CD.

So far, so good, although parts 1 and 2 (previous posts) show that it's not
perfect.

What I want now is to let my wife's Windows Vista  laptop use the printer.
I've seen how to set up an LPD printer in Vista, and it's a bit easier than
it was in XP.  However, it does not work at all -- I cannot print a test
page.  The Vista box seems to think everything's fine, but nothing
happens at the printer.

The Vista machine is connected via wireless to my LAN,  where CUPS is
working, and where a NAT router also gives access to the wider
internet.  It seems that this should work,  but it does not.

Help?

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cups not seeing a wireless host

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:39:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked:
> What I want now is to let my wife's Windows Vista  laptop use the printer.
> I've seen how to set up an LPD printer in Vista, and it's a bit easier than
> it was in XP.  However, it does not work at all -- I cannot print a test
> page.  The Vista box seems to think everything's fine, but nothing
> happens at the printer.
> 
> The Vista machine is connected via wireless to my LAN,  where CUPS is
> working, and where a NAT router also gives access to the wider
> internet.  It seems that this should work,  but it does not.

So, something got lost somewhere between your vista box and your cups
server, eh? Some logs would be nice. (On vista, open up the print
queue, and see if there are any errors; on gentoo, give us
/var/log/cups/, preferably trimmed to show just before you tried to
send a print job from the laptop and just after.)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cups not seeing a wireless host

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On 4/13/08, Willie Wong <wwong@princeton.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:39:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman
> squawked:
>
> > What I want now is to let my wife's Windows Vista  laptop use the
> printer.
> > I've seen how to set up an LPD printer in Vista, and it's a bit easier
> than
> > it was in XP.  However, it does not work at all -- I cannot print a test
> > page.  The Vista box seems to think everything's fine, but nothing
> > happens at the printer.
> >
> > The Vista machine is connected via wireless to my LAN,  where CUPS is
> > working, and where a NAT router also gives access to the wider
> > internet.  It seems that this should work,  but it does not.
>
>
> So, something got lost somewhere between your vista box and your cups
> server, eh? Some logs would be nice. (On vista, open up the print
> queue, and see if there are any errors; on gentoo, give us
> /var/log/cups/, preferably trimmed to show just before you tried to
> send a print job from the laptop and just after.)


On vista, it pops up a dialog saying a test page has been sent.  I don't see
any
queued jobs for this.

On cups/gentoo, there's no sign of activity.  The logs don't add a single
line, even with logging set to "debug".

Right now I'm trying to clean up the configuration.  The logs for startup
show some problems with ports which I'm having some trouble deciphering.  I
only get a few minutes per day to work on this, so it goes slowly.

++ kevin




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