[X-Unix] Re: help w/ cups printing

[Hector Luna]

I solved the problem myself. This is what I did in case anyone else
runs into a similar problem.

I found the hspc reference in the printcap file. I cross referenced my
B&W tower and the printers defined on it had the loopback address in
that field. I changed it back to the loopback my home printer on my
iBook, then I was ready to restart printing services. I'd found a menu
entry in the printer utility labeled "Reset Printing System." I
figured it would restart the printing services. It turns out that it
wipes out all printers and defaults back to Tiger defaults. Which was
OK in a sense, but I still think I could have solved my issue w/o
having to wipe out all the printers...

On 9/24/05, Hector Luna <polonius19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I needed to add a printer to my iBook (10.4.2, 1.3 GHz, 1.25GB). The
> printer was connected to my XP computer at work. It is an HP 4100 dtn
> that is currently bereft of its internal jet direct card. I have it
> connected locally to my XP computer via the parallel port. There are
> other network printers in the building, but this was the only duplex
> one and I needed to add it.
>
> I found a hint on macosxhints.com, but for the life of me can't find
> the actual doc at the moment. It worked, and I was able to print my
> docs that day. It involved turning on printer sharing, aliasing cupsd
> (i think) in the Terminal window and using the CUPS gui interface
> through my browser. I defined a printer, used the FQDN for my XP
> machine in the URI and a few minutes later I was printing.
>
> The problem now is that all of my printers are hosed and I can't use
> any of them. They might work once I get back on my corporate LAN, the
> ones in the building at any rate. All told I have about a dozen
> installed for use at work, home and school. When I look at the
> printer utility window I see the host defined for all the printers. I
> don't remember ever seeing the host defined in that window before. I
> cross referenced my B&W tower (10.3.9, 500MHz, 1GB) and my wife's
> iBook (10.4.2, 700MHz, 648MB) and neither of those have anything in
> the host field in the printer utility window. The problem, as near as
> I can tell is the host name:  hspc157449.px.snds.com. I know what the
> domain suffix is, that's the domain suffix for my corporate LAN. I
> don't know what the hspc157449 name is exactly, but I think it has
> something to do with our DNS server, a Lucent QIP server. When I
> configure addresses in the QIP tool I often see something similar
> before a host name is defined for an address. I know that it is not
> the name of my XP machine, that's AB868703, and not the Samba name
> for my iBook, that's Loki.
>
> I"ve looked in cupsd.conf, client.conf and printers.conf and
> hostconfig and can't find any traces of the hspc host name. I've
> deleted and readded my home printer, connected to an external jet
> direct print server, but the song, err, host remained the same. I've
> looked at the help files for the print setup utility and it would
> only say that the host field "displays the name of the computer
> that's "hosting" or sharing the printer."
>
> I'm at wits end. Does anyone have any suggestions. At this point I am
> perfectly happy wiping out all of the defined printers and re-adding
> them as need arises. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Polonius19
> Chief Malcontent & Misanthrope
> Urban Pacification League
>
>


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