Having problems with CUPS

icefaerie · n00b Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 50

Not sure if this is exactly the right place, but I am printing over a network, so here we go.

I've been trying to set up CUPS. Fortunately, we do have one printer on my network for which CUPS privides drivers, an Epson Stylus Color C60.

So I go to set up CUPS in the web interface at http://localhost:631/admin. And it can't connect, says Firefox. So I try http://127.0.0.1:631/admin, and still no luck.

Just to make sure I'm not losing my mind, I check ifconfig, and yup, local loopback is up and running.

Alright, so then I decide to try the command line setup instead.

So, I run LinNeighborhood and see that my printer's on 192.168.1.110. Following the example given in the documentation, I do...

/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p StylusColor -E -v socket://192.168.1.110 -m stcolor.ppd

And it says:

lpadmin: Unable to connect to server: Connection refused

I really don't understand what's going on, so I would really appreciate your help. Thank you!

shagrat · Apprentice Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

Check if your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf have two location tags similar to this:

icefaerie · n00b Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 50

Thanks. The file didn't have those tags, so I added them.

However, it's still saying it can't connect to localhost:631/admin, and the command line is giving me the same error message as before.

icefaerie · n00b Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 50

Um, oops, silly me. I assumed CUPS had started, but it hadn't. ^^;;;

Thanks for your help!

Edit:
Well, I tried to print something, but it doesn't work...

From the admin page:
Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
"Network host '192.168.1.110' is busy; will retry in 30 seconds..."

Except that I know the printer isn't busy because I'm the only one on the network at the moment, and I just ran to check it, and it's definitely not busy.

The printer is on a Win 98SE machine.