Mike Veenhuizen wrote:
> I have just installed Slackware 9.1 and I am trying to get cups working
> with my old laserjet. When I print a testpage from the cups setup it
> comes out fine, but if I try to print a test page using lpr test.ps, I
> get the following message " connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
> cannot open connection to localhost - Connection refused
> Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol
> and accepts connections from this host and from non-privileged (>1023)
> ports
>
> If I run checkpc -f I get the following message
>
> Warning - Laserjet: Bad printcap entry - missing 'sd' or 'client' entry?
> Warning - printers: Bad printcap entry - missing 'sd' or 'client' entry?
>
> Any ideas?
I am not sure of your problems with cups but I have had trouble making
cups 1.1.19 work properly. I had no problems in Slackware 9 so I removed
cups 19 and installed cups 18 from my slack 9 cd and away I go. No more
printing problems.
Just a chance it may help.


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