On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:08:52PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 16:01:04 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Two debian boxes - one lenny, one etch, each with its own printer - > > connected to the LAN and can ping each other. > > > > Problem: Etch box can use Lenny box's printer, Lenny Box cannot find or > > stalls trying to use Etch box's printer. > > > > More precisely, if I run lynx localhost:631 on the Lenny box and tell > > cups to find new printers it finds none and if I use cups to add Etch > > box's printer using the correct ipp address it does so but when I try to > > print a test page it stalls with the message: > > > > "recoverable: Network host '192.168.2.105' is busy, will try again in 20 > > seconds" > > > > Allowing for the different releases of cups on the two systems I believe > > I have set up the two versions of cupsd.conf consistently. hosts.allow > > are also consistent. > > > > Any suggestions as to where the problem might lie? > > Try > > netstat -plant | grep cups > > (as root) on the Etch system to see which connections cupsd is actually > listening to. > > Run > > tcpdump -i eth0 -n -p host 192.168.2.105 > > on the Lenny box, then try to print the test page again; this should > show you which connections the Lenny system tries to make to the Etch > system and where things hang. (Replace "eth0" if you use another > interface for your internal network.) > > Check your cups configuration, i.e. the DeviceURI given in printers.conf > on the Lenny box and the "shared" status of the printer on the Etch > system. > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | >
Many thanks for these suggestions, Florian. In truth I didn't get through the tcpdump before the problem suddenly resolved itself - i.e. the Lenny printer suddenly started printing the test page sent from Etch yesterday. I've printed out your message and will be ready if the problem recurs. Best regards, > > -- Tom > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
