CUPS problem

Hello folks:

I'm trying to get CUPS printing working on a Mandrake 8 system. I'm
attempting to print to an HP deskjet on a Windows 98 system. For some
reason, I can't seem to get it configured right. Mandrake's GUI control
center has a bug that allows me to add a network printer but not configure it
(it doesn't accept any keystrokes into any of the fields.) So I tried it
manually.

Here's printers.conf:
Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.7
# Written by cupsd on Fri Sep 24 13:47:22 2004
<DefaultPrinter HP>
Location
DeviceURI smb://pamela:<password>@pamela/HP
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
</Printer>
<Printer lp>
Location
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
</Printer>

(I had a local printer option because I had a printer there that failed;
perhaps I should remove the entry.)
And here's the Security Options section of cupsd.conf:
<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.1.*
Allow From 192.168.0.*
</Location>

Looks like it should work. The cups error_log file shows that it does indeed
TRY to print somesting, but that the backend fails with Status 2 (whatever
that is.) One of the puzzlers is the mention of the file foomatic-rip, which
does not exist on my system. Why didn't that get installed with cups? Was
HP supposed to supply that? Or is it supposed to be set to some other filter
file. In the /usr/lib/cups/filter directory, there is a file called
hpgltops, maybe that's the one the system should be using. Here's the
error_log output:

D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: filter =
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip"
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[1] = 8, 11
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700]
start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip", bfff7430, bfff28e0, 9, 11,
7)
I [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 28566) for job 18.
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: backend = "/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb"
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[0] = -1, 9
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb",
bfff7430, bfff28e0, 8, 9, 7)
I [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb (PID
28567) for job 18.
E [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PID 28566 stopped with status 2!
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] Page = 612x792; 18,36 to 594,783
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] pw = 576.0, pl = 747.0
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageLeft = 18.0, PageRight = 594.0
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageTop = 783.0, PageBottom = 36.0
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip: No such
file or directory
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] pw = 576.0, pl = 747.0
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageLeft = 18.0, PageRight = 594.0
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageTop = 783.0, PageBottom = 36.0
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] CloseClient() 4
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] UpdateJob: job
18, file 0 is complete.
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] CancelJob: id = 18
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StopJob: id = 18
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StopJob: printer state is 3
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:45 -0700] NFO: Parallel port busy; will retry in 30
seconds...
D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:45 -0700] mallinfo: arena = 1841504, used = 1205088,
free = 636416

Note that after it gives up on the samba printer it tries to print to the
parallel port - there's no printer there, so I'm not surprised that it's busy.

Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Vaughn

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