From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 26 00:13:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4650A106566B for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:13:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E76008FC0A for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:13:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 326075C28 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:27:15 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE6FB5C22 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:27:14 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F497814.9000704@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20120225221433.cba3d0dd.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120225231409.fdd67bff.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20120225231409.fdd67bff.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:13:48 -0000 On 02/26/12 08:14, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:07:36 +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytropon wrote: >>> I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color >>> laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631 >>> web-based configuration, none of the methods that are >>> supposed to be used for installing a printer works. >> (... snip ...) >> >>> What am I doing wrong? :-) >> Have you heeded *all* the advices here? >> /usr/ports/print/cups-base/pkg-message >> >> Permissions are usually the culprit when CUPS doesn't work. > Done (even with the variation of 0660 vs. 0770 as suggested > in that file): > > [system=10] > add path 'unlpt*' mode 0660 group cups > add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups > add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups > add path 'usb/4.2.*' mode 0660 group cups > add path 'usb*' mode 0770 group cups > > Same result == no result. :-) I don't know that I can add anything to the cups discussion here, but I understand you'd rather use lpr anyway. You are aware that the printer will only speak splix the samsung universal driver language? So any config would have to be based on that. Once you have that working maybe you can manually add the printer in cups using lpd. JIC you haven't considered this yet... HIH :)