Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

On Monday 22 December 2008 18:00:52 BRM wrote:

> - just add the HP USB printer as a normal printer on the Network Server,
> connected via USB.

This is what happens, starting from a clean system (mke2fs, then restore a 
known good backup of a freshly built system), and cups installed with 
USE="acl dbus jpeg pam perl png ppds python ssl 
tiff -X -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -ldap -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf":

I let cups find the printer and I tell it to use the .ppd file I got from 
linuxprinting.org. It shows the printer configuration page, where I set A4 
paper, then I get a security error saying that I have attempted to 
establish a connection with 192.168.2.2 whereas the security certificate 
presented belongs to serv.ethnet. Guess what - serv.ethnet is the machine 
I'm working on and it has IP address 192.168.2.2. What is going on here? (I 
don't get this error when setting up my laser printer; only with this 
inkjet.)

On printing a test page I get "/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed" 
and job stopped.

> On your client systems you add it as an IPP printer as the Network
> Server's CUPS server is the IPP host.

It would be nice to get that far. At present I can't get anything working at 
all without using hplip.

-- 
Rgds
Peter