Ubuntu :: Setup A Print Server In House?
Jan 14, 2010
I have an old clunker box with no HD insalled in it. it does have a cd rom however, and i would be able to run DSL from it with that alone.
i want to set this box up as a print server, since as it is all of the computers in the house must actually be moved to the printer and connected to it via USB to print.
i am looking to simplify this for everyones benefit, here.
the box i am going to use will *not* be connected to a monitor, KB or mouse once it is ready to be left on its own. i will use these to set it up, but after that, id prefer a way to http: into it or FTP into it.
i am on ubuntu, the rest of the house is on XP. i figure i will have to configure the computer with SAMBA in order to set it up for sharing, is that correct?
i will be connecting the computer to the wireless router.
basically, id just like help with a roadmap on what needs to be done to set this up. i dont need step by step directions on everything, just an idea of where to start. id really like to get this setup within a few hours.
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Jan 28, 2011
**Edit: path for mount was incorrect Distro Server: CentOS 5.5
Clients:
Fedora(latest)
OSX(latest)
Backround I am attempting to setup a server in my house mostly(for the first time) for backups and file sharing. It is important to me that file permissions are preserved. So its my understanding that I must use idmapd in order for this to work. As of now I'm only working with the linux distros while osx will be dealt with once these two work together. portmapper is up and running, along with lockd on both machines. Firewalls are also down on both machines for now. The server side was all setup using the GUI interface with no extra options selected. Problem When attempting to "mount -t nfs4 10.0.0.2/$sharedfolder /mnt" I get an error operation not permitted with no error printing in /var/log/message. If I use "mount -t -o nolock nfs4 10.0.0.2/$sharedfolder /mnt" it mounts just fine. Ive checked both machines multiple times to make sure that lockd is up and running. In the idmapd.conf file I the domain as "localdomain" for both machines but I doubt that is right; like I stated above this is my first attempt at a server. I'm assuming the problem is a whole missing step that involves some kind of id mapping server I need to setup.
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I am having trouble connecting to VNC server from any machine in my house. The server is running fedora v14.
Previously I was able to connect when i had dsl, but i have since switched to cable and am having a problem
I checked the vnc error log and saw the below error. Note these are excerpts from the file
I have checked
1. VNC server is up and running
2. My username is in the vnc file
3. the port i am trying to connect to is open.
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May 21, 2011
I have an application which generate logs like this
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2011-05-17 13:21:27 - Msg 2402
File loading terminated.
File information: 3 records in input file found
3 records processed
0 records skipped
Load statistics: 3 messages loaded correctly
0 messages ignored
0 messages with errors
Details:
Destination OK ignored errors correct incorrect not sel. other
house Server (def 3 0 0 0 2 1 0
2011-05-17 13:21:27 - Msg 2410
Archiving information: File /path/to/xxx.txt
was archived as /path/to/xxx.txt.
Now I want to monitor this "house Server (def" and send alert based on 3 0 0 0 2 1 0
say if [ $5 -gt 0 || $6 -gt 0 ]; then
<send email>
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Jan 23, 2010
I am using Canon Pixus MP800, an equivalent model to Canon PIXMA iP4200, on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10. Print color on the printer is too pale on all applications (such as web page printing on Firefox, and picture printing on the image viewer). I run Windows XP on the same computer with dual-boot, and the print color is perfect on Windows XP. So, this is not a printer hardware issue, but a Ubuntu system issue.
How can I setup the printer to let it work properly?
OS: Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10
Printer: Canon Pixus MP800
Printer Driver: Canon PIXMA iP4200
Some Printer Driver Settings:
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Jul 14, 2011
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Jan 19, 2010
We are trying to set up a NIS server on a CentOS system. We need to have a NIS server which can provide NIS authentication to a couple of clients. We are practically new to all this stuff.
Just googled to find some ideas about installing ypserv and ypbind and portmapper. We did all that and also started them successfully. But now the clients are not able to join to the NIS domain . The error log states "YP_DOMAIN NOT BOUND".
I guess we have not entered the /etc/yp.conf, /etc/hosts files properly. Please let us know the detailed steps to setup a NIS server .
Also, please let us know what entries should go into the different /etc/<file_names>? What is meant by HOSTNAME in the /etc/hosts file?
Is there any other files which need to be changed? Are we missing any steps?
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At this point, we have to construct a list of the hosts which will run NIS servers. localhost.localdomain is in the list of NIS server hosts. Please cont inue to add the names for the other hosts, one per line. When you are done with the list, type a <control D>. next host to add: localhost.localdomain next host to add:
The current list of NIS servers looks like this:
Is this correct? [y/n: y] y
Error running Makefile.
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Code:
After about 15 seconds it would pop back with
Code:
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Code:
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I'm trying to set up a cups print server on 10.10 server. When I run
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sudo apt-get install cupsys
i get this error
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E: Unable to locate package cupsys
I can find and install all kinds of other stuff and this is a fresh install.
Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list
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#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-Server 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)]/ maverick main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
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xxx@xxx:~$ xpdf
***** MediaBox = ll:0,0 ur:611.976,791.968
***** CropBox = ll:0,0 ur:611.976,791.968
***** Rotate = 0
Segmentation fault
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2 dot matrix printers - lp0 and lp1
2 zebra barcode printers - lp2 and lp3
1 epson laser printer - lp4
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