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TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

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[Solved] Samba 4 and CUPS, "lpr: The printer or class does not exist."

Hello,
Sorry I don't know which is the appropriate forum to post in. I assumed this is suitable.

My problem started once I upgraded samba to the latest version, before I was happy to share and print without hassle.
I fought for the shares and I solved, but printing seem very hard to find a clue.
My childs using Arch and Ubuntu, but that isn't the real matter. I found in /var/log/samba this statement

lpr: The printer or class does not exist.

Also when I tried in the shell:

echo hello | lpr -P

The result is the same.
My printer is a HP DeskJet1050 and I've installed hplip for all the computers needing to print.
I've inserted the user:password on the printer address but no printout, even if client states job completed

For what I suppose, the printing reach the server but it is somehow stopped by CUPS or its subsystem.
In the CUPS log

W [12/Jun/2013:10:45:41 +0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'HP_Deskjet_1050_J410_series-Gray..' already exists
W [12/Jun/2013:10:45:41 +0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'HP_Deskjet_1050_J410_series-RGB..' already exists
W [12/Jun/2013:10:45:41 +0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'Virtual_PDF_Printer-Gray..' already exists
W [12/Jun/2013:10:45:41 +0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'Virtual_PDF_Printer-RGB..' already exists
E [12/Jun/2013:10:46:06 +0800] Unable to communicate with avahi-daemon: Daemon not running

For avahi I've found that its group was missing, but at moment no printing.

Last edited by TheSaint (2013-06-15 00:42:54)

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TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,532

Re: [Solved] Samba 4 and CUPS, "lpr: The printer or class does not exist."

How to release some security tightening?
It's only a matter to print few pages for a family members.

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skanky

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Registered: 2009-10-23

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Re: [Solved] Samba 4 and CUPS, "lpr: The printer or class does not exist."

That lpr message suggests that the default printer is not set. Have a look at man lpr for a brief discussion of it. You can set the default in the Cups admin, or using one of the methods in the man page.
Alternatively you could try printing to a printer by name (by passing it in as an argument to lpr - again see the man page) as a check that the printer is set up.

Once lpr works locally first, then look at the Samba issue.

Unfortunately I had issues there myself and went to printing to Cups directly via port 631 (though I subsequently think the issue could have been with a damaged Windows printer driver, I haven't moved back as it's all working and I need it for work).

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TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

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Re: [Solved] Samba 4 and CUPS, "lpr: The printer or class does not exist."

My bad.
I set the wrong printer name on the /etc/samba/smb.conf
That was my doubt. The name must reflect the CUPS name, when that printer setup is done.

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