Cups Help

[Juanito]

ya, it asked for username and password at one point, so i entered "root" for username and the password was the root password

I've seen cups get locked up like that before when more than one instance is running.

You could try stopping the cups daemon (/etc/init.d/cups stop) and then using "ps aux | grep cups" to make sure no other instances are running.

If all else fails, you could re-boot and start again...

[Madcamper]

Tried it again but no success. I had to tce-load -i cups.tczl again in order to edit the conf file
but when i go to add the printer through the web browser it still has that loop

also when i do sudo /etc/init.d/cups start
with just 1311 installed it doesnt work. I had to manually download the tczl file and install with tce-load -i cups1311.tczl
once i enter that command it says the scheduler has started but it still wont let me get to the web address.
could that cause a problem by manually downloading?

[Juanito]

You could try in this order (if not already done):

1. load cups1311 and deps
2. stop cups daemon if it is running
3. edit cupsd.conf (shouldn't be required with either cups/cups1311)
4. start cups daemon
5. start browser interface
6. add printer

[Madcamper]

Look at last post, don't know if you saw it in time for the new post? :/

[Madcamper]

Awsome!!! it worked!!! now to try and print from my windows machine.
would the printer address just be http://address:port ?

[Madcamper]

Unsupported format 'application/postscript'! when i try to print a test page
what does this mean?

FIX:

Ok got it to work, i had to reinstall gs.tczl as it was removed

[Juanito]

Do you mean the test page from your linux machine or from your windows machine?

On linux, I think this depends on whether you used a cups driver or a ppd driver for your printer.

Some ppd will need foomatic-rip and its deps to be loaded

[Madcamper]

im printing from my windows machine to the printer connected to my linux machine, but when i did print test page it didnt print anything out

[Juanito]

Did you see http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=3559.0 ?

[Madcamper]

when i try to change the basic server settings it comes back with Internal Server Error

[perthie]

@Madcamper:

Which version of CUPS are you running? Use the command: cups-config --version

I am pretty sure that cups1311.tczl will work for you once you get the cups daemon started, as described in the info file. Either:

1. Run: sudo /etc/init.d/cups start   or
2. Add the line to your /opt/bootlocal.sh file

If you currently have CUPS 1.4x in play, you will need to uninstall it before going back to CUPS 1.3.11. Otherwise, the two versions will fight each other.

Where did you get the driver for your NX100?

[Madcamper]

perthie:
I am running 1.3 version of cups it does work and starts up. But as for printing it doesnt actually print the page.
And as for the NX100 driver, I havn't installed the driver, I am looking for the ppd file as to i think that is why it is not printing.
It does recognize it as a NX100 Epson printer plugged into the usb port though. If you find or have any solution to the nx100 driver please let me know.
As far as being able to access outside of my local network, i can not do yet.
I try editing the basic server settings on the main paig of the cups web browser but it returns a "internal server error" message. Any help with that would be great too

[perthie]

Install the gutenprint.tczl extension. It has a driver for your NX100.

Also, the cupsd.conf file that comes with cups1311.tczl will work fine. You should not need to modify it.

Are you sure that you don't have both versions of CUPS running at the same time?

[Madcamper]

ok i installed the gutenprint, but cant test it yet. I can't access the web address outside of the local network. ( i am at school rigth now)

[perthie]

ok i installed the gutenprint, but cant test it yet. I can't access the web address outside of the local network. ( i am at school rigth now)

Into what machine did you install Gutenprint? It needs to be installed on the machine running the CUPS daemon. Once you have your NX100 set up as a local printer, we can address the networking issue.

Could you explain what "the server" is?