Printing woes in mandrake 8.2

[KevinO]

I have printing working using Mandrake 8.2 here at the house.

lpr seems more reliable than cups but I have one system of each configuration.

Our printers are remote windows (smb) shares just to make it more interesting.

Uninstalling and reinstalling printers seems to fix things that are done 
incorrectly during the install.

Try going in through the web interface and use the root username and password 
when prompted : http://localhost:631

Going to lpr instead of cups seems to help sometimes also.

KevinO

Bryce C wrote:
> I've learned to live without printing for a while, MDK8.2 never once
> talks actual printing to my USB Epson Stylus Colour 900 except
> occasionally on bootup (very rare. it's a server) but as I posted within
> the last couple months and someone was nice enough to respond that I had
> to recompile the kernel for whatever reason.  I think i'll try lp0 first
> once I get a long enough cable.
> 
> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 18:15, Will Johnson wrote:
> 
>>Anyone out there having trouble printing with mandy 8.2? I have used the kde print tool and everything looks as if it should work, it just doesn't. I have verified that the printer works fine. It is an hp photosmart p1000. kde found the right driver in its list and applied it. It has a name and port address. I did however get a pop-up screen when finalizing the config that said:(in Kmail) kde has logeed a request to access local host on port 631 but requires a password. It brings up my local login name and when I use my password it kicks it back as invalid. Any Ideas on how to solve this?
> 



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