OpenSolaris 2008.11 - CUPS - Brother HL-2030 USB

I was a little bit disappointed... I plugged my laser printer Brother HL-2030 ( USB ) and enabled cups and played a little bit with the cups website but was not able to print anything as the printer goes offline ! S...

After reading several sources what have to be done :

• enable cups

The package SUNWcups was not installed. Start the Package Manager and type cups in the "search field". I installed the 3 packages to be sure : SUNWcups, SUNWcups-libs and SUNWpycups(if I remember well this one was already installed).

Query the print service and cups is enabled.

root@catalogne:~# print-service -q
active print service: cups

If cups is not enabled :

print-services -s cups

• enable your user to use the cups website(when authentication is required)

Getting Admin rights to modify CUPS settings

You have to be in the group "sys".

root@catalogne:~# cat /etc/group | grep sys:
sys::3:root,bin,adm,rudy

In this example, the user "rudy" is in the "sys" group.

"THIS IS TEMPORARY ! ROOT CANNOT AUTHENTICATE INTO CUPS"
please remove later your user from "sys" !

• Access the cups website and create a new usb printer
  

example : http://localhost:631

This will create the necessary configuration for a test1 printer.

• Modify the cups configuration

Add "FileDevice Yes" in cupsd.conf(backup the file before).

root@catalogne:/etc# more /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
#
# "$Id: cupsd.conf.in 7199 2008-01-08 00:16:30Z mike $"
#
# Sample configuration file for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS)
# scheduler. See "man cupsd.conf" for a complete description of this
# file.
#

# RUV
FileDevice Yes
...
...
...

Modify printers.conf

root@catalogne:~# more /etc/cups/printers.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.3.7
# Written by cupsd on 2009-04-02 20:04

Info test1
Location test1
DeviceURI file://dev/printers/0
State Idle
StateTime 1238695489
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer


From DeviceURI usb://Brother/HL-2030%20series
TO file://dev/printers/0

• Access the cups website

example : http://localhost:631

Printers--->Print Test Page



Printed a test page !!!

That's all for today !

-Rudy-