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[Brett I. Holcomb]

lpstat is provided by cups for backwards compatibility as is the lpr and 
other commands.  Cups does much more than lprng.  I would stick with 
cups.  Try the http://localhost:631 and see if your printer is even 
setup.  It sounds like it's not.


Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 
>> None.  If you do http://localhost:631 it will bring up the cups admin 
>> page.  The manage printers->modify has the name and it's also shown on 
>> the main page.  From the command line lpstat -a shows all printer names.
> 
> 
> lpstat -a :
> .................................................................
> Printer 'HP at localhost' - cannot open connection - No such file or directory
> Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol
> Printer 'all at localhost' - cannot open connection - No such file or 
> directory
> Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol
> ..................................................................
> 
> 
> It is normal , my hostname is 'milina' , not the default 'localhost'
> The test page works fine through web interface but i think the problem 
> is that somthing in the printing process is looking for 'localhost' ... 
> but localhost doesn't exit anywhere on my system ...
> 
> How could i update that thing ?
> I though ( may be i'm wrong) that if I use CUPS i could get rid of lprng 
>  ... i see that lpstat is a part of lprng. so i guess i dont need cups ...
> but will the lprng stuff detec correctly my printer ?
> What's the way of work ?
> Waiting for your answers , i go for a search on Google ...