kubuntu vs cups, shared printers aren't.

[gene heskett]

On Thursday, March 17, 2011 04:26:36 AM Alvin did opine:

> On Thursday 17 March 2011 08:58:31 gene heskett wrote:
> > Greetings folks;
> > 
> > This box, a 32 bit pclos install, claims that cups is sharing all my
> > printers.
> > 
> > But since I re-installed Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS on my milling machines box
> > I can't see or use the printers from that box.
> > 
> > What is the exact syntax to query for available printers on the local
> > network?
> > 
> > lpinfo either returns nothing or a syntax error, while this box claims
> > they are shared.
> 
> still, $ lpinfo -v should give you a complete listing.

/usr/sbin/lpinfo: no such file or directory 
But:
root at shop:~# ls -l /usr/sbin/lpinfo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9444 2010-11-02 13:57 /usr/sbin/lpinfo

so that is a funkity error msg IMO.

> > This did work flawlessly when that box had kubuntu 6.06 LTS on it.
> > 
> > Any clues?
> 
> Have you changed /etc/cups/cupsd.conf?
> Check if your machine is listening with # netstat -ptln | grep cups

[root at coyote cups]# netstat -ptln | grep cups
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631                 0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2382/cupsd          
tcp        0      0 :::631                      :::*                        LISTEN      2382/cups

I have only a limited clue as to what that is telling me.  Good/Bad?

Thanks

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