From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LLcl6-0006y4-Gn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:16:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B6B6FE0364; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918DEE0364 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EDEDEC1A for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:16:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hRCrMm7fI3P0 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:09:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCFCEDEB94 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:16:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:15:19 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200901061539.48182.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <200901071208.12105.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <924495.36485.qm@web65404.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <924495.36485.qm@web65404.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901101215.19510.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 100c95ff-0a87-43fa-94f4-d3bc6b525662 X-Archives-Hash: cf048b3b78087f375528bd36a79661eb On Wednesday 07 January 2009 14:20:24 BRM wrote: > From what I can see in this new thread this year, you just need to do the > couple steps to make your Workstations work as CUPS Clients by > configuring it as a client and then it should work. Of course it should. It does not. I simply cannot find the necessary invocations and USE flags etc. No matter what I try I cannot get printing to work over the network. I always get a succession of success messages from cups, followed by "printer does not exist" when I try to print a test page. That's a pretty strange definition of success in anybody's book. Even a straightforward postscript laser cannot be made to work now. I'm going to give it up altogether as a lost cause. Every machine on the network will have to have the printers set up locally, and be carried to where the printers are whenever a print job is needed. This is one giant black mark for Linux, the ultimate networking OS. I've been using Linux on-and-off for about 15 years, but I'm seriously considering the future of it in this house. Thanks for trying to help. -- Rgds Peter