Configuring CUPS

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I’m trying to configure CUPS under 12.2. My printer is attached to another machine (running Windows). The last time I set up a CUPS system was some six years ago and I seem to be a little rusty. Also the file structure seems to have changed somewhat (if my memory serves me well) since then.

Where do I find smbspool, and do I have to link it to the backend directory? And if so, where is the backend directory? These used to be in /usr, but I can’t find them now.

I’ve successfully created the printer description, so no problem there.

I’m running 12.2 on an Alienware X51 and the printer is on a Windows XP machine. I’ve printed successfully for several years onto this printer from a machine running 11.1, until the latter died.

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One thing that would be very useful is if someone directed me to the CUPS error log.

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The CUPS server errors are reported at /var/log/cups/error_log

The error verbosity can be increased for debugging purposes by editing /etc/cups/cupsd.conf with ‘LogLevel’ set to ‘debug’ instead of ‘warn’

# Log general information in error_log - change "warn" to "debug"
# for troubleshooting...
LogLevel warn

# Administrator user group...
SystemGroup sys root
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Everything you may want to know about CUPS 1.5.X is documented here

CUPS 1.5 - Documentation - CUPS

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