lpr problems

[jerry davis]

On Sunday 25 December 2005 10:42 am, jerry davis wrote:

Well, I must've removed a package that I shouldn't have.
I re-installed the OS and that did the trick.
I have my printer back now.

Jerry

> On Saturday 24 December 2005 10:13 pm, FoulDragon at aol.com wrote> : 
> > In a message dated 12/24/2005 10:08:50 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> >
> > jdawgaz at cox.net writes:
> > >EPSON|EPSON:rm=localhost:rp=EPSON:
> >
> > It seems to be trying to print to the local machine, not 192.168.1.106
> >
> >
> > From the page I linked, it seemed to imply, making an entry for the
> > server in the host file, then changing the "rm=localhost" to refer to
> > that name, might just do it.
>
> I saw that, but when I changed it and restarted cups, cups rewrote it.
>
> printcap:
> # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
> # /etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
> # will be lost.
> EPSON|EPSON:rm=frodo.localhost:rp=EPSON:
>
> /etc/cups/printers.conf:
> # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
> # Written by cupsd on Sat 24 Dec 2005 09:35:50 PM MST
> <DefaultPrinter EPSON>
> Info
> Location
> DeviceURI ipp://192.168.1.100/USB1
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> </Printer>
>
>
> How it got frodo.localhost out of what is in the /etc/cups/printer.conf
> file I cannot figure out.
>
> What a bummer, cups has always been good to me, what the world is going on
> now, I don't know.
>
> Jerry

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