Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:51:30 +0100 From: Hans Nieser <hans@nieser.net> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Printing dialog not listing CUPS printer Message-ID: <43A328D2.4060302@nieser.net>
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Dear fellow idiots, On my LAN at home I have a printer (HP Deskjet 990c) shared through Windows Networking. I want to use this printer from my desktop (Gentoo) and laptop (FreeBSD 6.0) computers (which both run Gnome 2.12.2 as desktop), so I installed cups, gnome-cups-manager, the hpijs driver and cups-smb-backend. On both computers I have added the printer using gnome-cups-manager where it shows up in the UI and also succesfully prints the testpage. Now, on the Gentoo machine, all is fine; I can launch any application and hit "Print", select my Deskjet and it beautyfully Just Works (tm). On my FreeBSD laptop however, when I launch any application (well, I tried gedit, evince, Screem and OpenOffice) it doesn't list the printer and only lists the "Create a PDF document" and "Generic Postscript" items. I tried printing to Generic Postscript which uses lpr, but nothing happened. Restarting cupsd didn't help, neither did rebooting the entire machine (I am slowly starting to realise that that trick only works on Windows). The printer is listed in /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf and /etc/printcap. I couldn't find any related errors in the CUPS error log. Depressingly, most search results I got on Google were about some guy named Linus calling me an idiot :( Can anyone assist?
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