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PROBLEM SOLVING
Common Linux Problems
Problem
How do I specify the IP
address of my SMB
server?
Possible Cause and Solution
It can be specified in the “Add Printer” dialog of the
configuration tool, if you don’t use the CUPS printing system.
Unfortunately, CUPS currently doesn’t allow to specify the IP
address of SMB printers, so you will have to be able to browse
the resource with Samba in order to be able to print.
Some documents come
out as white pages when
printing.
Some versions of CUPS, especially those shipped with
Mandrake Linux before the 8.1 release, have some known bugs
when processing the PostScript output from some applications.
Try upgrading to the latest version of CUPS (at least 1.1.9).
Some RPM packages for most popular distributions are
provided as a convenience with this Linux Printing Package.
I have CUPS and some
options (such as N-up)
seem to be always
enabled even though I
don’t pick them in SLPR.
There may be some local options defined in your
~/.lpoptions file, which is manipulated by the lpoptions
command. These options will always be used if not overriden
by SLPR settings. To get rid of all options for a printer, run the
following command, replacing “printer” with the name of the
queue: lpoptions -x printer
I configured a printer to
print to a file, but I get
“Permission denied”
errors.
Most printing systems will not run as the super-user but as a
special user (usually “lp”). Therefore, make sure that the file
you have chosen to print to is accessible to the user owning
the spooler daemon.
On my PCL (or SPL)
printer, I sometimes get
error messages printing
instead of my document.
Unfortunately, some Unix applications may generate non-
compliant PostScript output that may not be supported by
Ghostscript, or even the printer itself in PostScript mode. You
can try to capture the output to a file and view the results with
Ghostscript (gv or ghostview will allow you to do so
interactively) and see if you get error messages. However,
since the application is at probably fault, contact your software
vendor to inform them of the issue.