printing woes

james@jamesmcdonald.id.au james
Mon May 17 12:00:51 PDT 2004


I'm sure you already have a /etc/hosts entry for RickSivernell with the
correct IP I don't know what Get_local_host actually does but hey...
sometimes it's the simple things.

>
>     does anyone know where the Foomatic-hpijs drivers are stored or how to
> build one.
>  I have the HP4v.ppd, HPijs.xml foomatic, foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engine
> & gimp print
>  installed.  Gentoo system
>
>  1. lp fails to print   /etc/hostname is RickSivernell
>
>  RickSivernell rick $ lpr -d 192.168.0.30:4020 RRS_Sig.txt
>  Get_local_host: hostname 'RickSivernell' bad
>  RickSivernell rick $
>
>  checkpc -f
>  RickSivernell cups # checkpc -f
>  2004-03-22-15:37:23.381 Get_local_host: hostname 'RickSivernell' bad
>  RickSivernell cups #
>
>  2. Using cups, latest version & samba, say client-error, that is all I
> can find
>  /var/logMessages:
>  Mar 22 15:13:02 RickSivernell nmbd[1351]:   process_browse_packet:
> Discarding
> datagram from IP 192.168.0.60. Source name RICKSIVERNELL<00> is one of our
> names !
>
>  3. KDE print from control panel:
>  could not make driver hp4v_foomatic.hpijs
>  reinstalled all of foomatic(s), cups, lprng hpijsj
>  The hpijs.xml file is in its proper location as per linuxprinting.org
>
>  I have gone thru everything I know, can not get anything to print, once
> before it
> did.
>
>  Any suggestions will be appreciated/
> --
> Rick Sivernell
> Dallas, Texas  75287
> 972 306-2296
> res005ru at gte.net
> Gentoo Linux
> Registered Linux User #193859
>
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