CUPS not seeing printer

[rustydreamcast]

I all not really a FreeNAS issue but this is driving me round the twist not least as it worked out of the tin under Linux

In order to do away with a Linux box running cups I thought it would be neat to install cups in a jail on my freenas server.

The jail creation and installing cups was fine as per the instructions on freebsd.org and I've installed epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/ from the ports which is the same drivers mt sx218 users in Linux if I try something like cat /dev/ulpt0 it gets resonance from the printer

But when I go to the add printer there are no local printers offered any idea? would be welcome right now.

Thanks

rusty

 

[rustydreamcast]

tried to manually add with this but not working as you can see

root@Cups:/ # lpadmin -p Epson-Stylus_SX218 -m "`lpinfo --make-and-model 'Epson-Stylus_SX218' -m | cut -f 1 -d ' '`" -v 'usb:/dev/ulpt0' -D 'Epson-Stylus_SX218 (ulpt0)' -E
lpinfo: client-error-not-found
lpadmin: Unknown argument "usb:/dev/ulpt0".
root@Cups:/ #

 

[oneplusme]

I've had various issues getting CUPS working - primarily the permissions on the device nodes in the jail. In the end, I set the script below running ever 5 minutes from cron (as root) to make sure that CUPS could write to the device nodes it needed:

Code:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

usbid="03f0:7604"

PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin

usbdev=$(lsusb -d "$usbid" 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e 's/:.*//')
if [ -z "$usbdev" ] ; then
	# Printer not connected
	exit 0
fi

usbbus=$(echo "$usbdev" | sed -e 's/.*ugen//')

for node in /dev/*lp* /dev/usb/$usbbus.* ; do
	chown cups:cups "$node"
done

(Replace usbid with the ID for your printer, which you can find with "lsusb".)