Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

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

On Saturday 10 January 2009 12:56:29 Norman Rieß wrote:

> You say you configured both printers on one server with CUPS-Webpage. I
> assume this works and you can print a testpage with the Webpage.
> Then you wrote "ServerName yourserver" in /etc/cups/client.conf . You
> can now choose both printers in the applicationspecific printmenus,
> right?

Are you telling me that the printers the server knows of should appear in 
the client's cups web page automatically? That certainly doesn't happen, 
which is why I've been trying to tell the client where to find its 
printers.

> If this is the case and it still does not work, please provide some
> logentries.

This looks important (trimming time & date etc.):
cupsdAcceptClient: 8 from 192.168.2.6:631 (IPv4)
cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1
cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
cupsdSendError: 8 code=403 (Forbidden)
cupsdCloseClient: 8

(The log is taken from the server after running lpstat -a on the client; the 
IPv4 address shown is the client.)

What kind of authentication data does that mean? User ID confirmation? SSH 
keys? As far as I know I haven't done anything particular to SSH or SSL. The 
Gentoo printing guide doesn't mention gnutls or ldap, so I haven't set them 
up, or even installed them.

> As one who uses linux for 15 years you should know that cups != linux.

Indeed. Perhaps I should withdraw that remark - it shows just what depth of
frustration can build up over a period of several months of repeated
failure in a straightforward task.

-- 
Rgds
Peter