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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:14:35 -0400
From:      John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>
To:        Anthony Agelastos <iqgrande@gmail.com>
Cc:        "E. J. Cerejo" <edu07643@yahoo.com.br>, DougB@FreeBSD.org, asa@agava.com, amistry@am-productions.biz, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hpijs/hplip, foomatic-rip, and CUPS 1.2.0
Message-ID:  <44BC27EB.5090507@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <FC6F81E3-15E6-4230-9C04-59C9FCB16986@gmail.com>
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Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>
> On Jul 16, 2006, at 11:19 PM, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
>
>> Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jul 16, 2006, at 10:08 PM, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 16, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>>>>>> For future reference, please don't post to both -ports and 
>>>>>> -questions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for this clarification.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>>>>>>> Does anyone out there have network printing working with 
>>>>>>> hpijs/hplip and
>>>>>>> CUPS 1.2.0?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes. You need to follow the instructions at
>>>>>> file:///usr/local/share/doc/hplip-0.9.11/install/step4/cups/net.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not think I explained my situation very well. This printer 
>>>>> (hp LaserJet 1160Le) is connected directly to my FreeBSD server 
>>>>> via USB. If I print something logged on the server (via lp for 
>>>>> instance), it prints. I wish to print to this printer from all of 
>>>>> the computers on my LAN. When I try to print something from one of 
>>>>> these computers, that is when it bombs and displays the 
>>>>> foomatic-rip error message (foomatic-rip failed).
>>>>>
>>>>> The directions on that sheet appear to be if I wanted to print to 
>>>>> this network printer that wasn't directly connected to the FreeBSD 
>>>>> server. Am I mistaken about this? Also, there is no button on the 
>>>>> printer that will print such a page, so I would have to figure out 
>>>>> how to find this IP address by other means. I cannot see how to 
>>>>> find it in the CUPS web interface. I assume CUPS issues it an IP 
>>>>> address.
>>>>>
>>>>> The error_log that I have posted on previous threads is attached 
>>>>> to this email (the successful print jobs were done locally while 
>>>>> the error occurred when I printed to the printer from my MacBook 
>>>>> Pro). Does anyone have any suggestions? I should note that prior 
>>>>> to the CUPS upgrade to 1.2.0 (and the recent gnutls update), my 
>>>>> setup was working (I was able to print from the server itself as 
>>>>> well as all of the rest of the computers on my LAN). I have 
>>>>> rebuilt all packages several times (except for the OS).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On my MacBook Pro, when I go to the CUPS web interface, I see the 
>>>>> following for the printer:
>>>>> hp_LaserJet_1160Le@192.168.0.3    HP LaserJet 1160 Foomatic/hpijs 
>>>>> (recommended)       Description: hp LaserJet 1160Le
>>>>> Location: Den
>>>>> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
>>>>>
>>>>> 192.168.0.3 is the IP address of my FreeBSD server on my LAN. It 
>>>>> looks as if Mac OS X 10.4.7 runs CUPS 1.1.23, but I could be 
>>>>> mistaken. It has found the printer through Bonjour (zeroconf I 
>>>>> believe is another name for it), so I didn't have to do any 
>>>>> configuring. Could there be an incompatibility within these 
>>>>> versions of CUPS? I have found the following page which lists 
>>>>> several issues and talks about how CUPS 1.2.0 is broken in several 
>>>>> places. Could one of these be the issue?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42391
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On a sidenote, I was having difficulties installing hpijs when 
>>>>>>> hplip was
>>>>>>> already installed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm working on that.
>>>>> Thank you for your assistance on this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>> You need to restart CUPS when the printer "attaches" via USB or 
>>>> else CUPS won't know about the USB port and you'll get this error 
>>>> every time.
>>>
>>> I just did a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart and then printed 
>>> something from my laptop. Same error.
>>> dell# lpstat -t
>>> scheduler is running
>>> no system default destination
>>> device for Create_PDF: cups-pdf:/
>>> device for hp_LaserJet_1160Le: /dev/ulpt0
>>> Create_PDF accepting requests since Sun Jun 25 11:27:52 2006
>>> hp_LaserJet_1160Le accepting requests since Sun Jul 16 22:36:15 2006
>>> printer Create_PDF is idle.  enabled since Sun Jun 25 11:27:52 2006
>>> printer hp_LaserJet_1160Le is idle.  enabled since Sun Jul 16 
>>> 22:36:15 2006
>>>         /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed
>>> hp_LaserJet_1160Le-30   iqgrande          7168   Sun Jul 16 22:36:02 
>>> 2006
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> jmc
>>>
>>>
>> What are the permissions/ownership on /dev/ulpt0?
>>
>> jmc
>
> I do not remember if I created the user + group cups & hplip or if the 
> system automatically did so for me. In any event, there are the 
> following entries:
>
> /etc/passwd
> cups:*:193:193:CUPS Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
> hplip:*:116:5:HPLIP Server:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
>
> /etc/group
> cups:*:193:
>
> Do these appear correct, or do I need to change them? Thank you for 
> your assistance.
>
>
>
>
I don't have hplip installed, but the group for mine matches yours.

jmc



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