[TriLUG] print queues work locally, but not over the network

[Chris Bullock]

maybe selinux was installed?

--- Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> My computer has an HP4050 hooked to its parallel port. Most printers in
> the 
> house run Mandriva 2006 and access my printer via the network. I
> upgraded my 
> computer to Mandriva 2007, and all of a sudden none of the other
> computers 
> can print to my printer. It (in all its various configurations such as
> lp, 
> lp_dark, lp_duplex etc) shows up on all the other Mandriva machines, but
> when 
> you print to it on those printers it "vanishes into thin air". Nothing
> prints 
> on my printer, and the lpq -P lp_dark command says nothing's queued on
> their 
> computer or on mine. I can't figure out what happened to the print job.
> The 
> same print job works perfectly if I sftp the file to my computer and
> then 
> print it from my computer.
> 
> The cupsd daemon is running on all the computers, and lp_dark (and the
> others) 
> show up at http://localhost:631 on all the computers.
> 
> This seemed to start when I upgraded my computer from Mandriva 2006 to 
> Mandriva 2007.
> 
> What are some of the steps I'd take to troubleshoot this problem? My
> wife and 
> kids have started a fire under a 1000 gallon pot, and I'm scared I'll
> get 
> boiled if I don't get the family's printers printing.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
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