Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1.4) Installed from: I Don't Know OS: Linux newbie to Ark Linux, trying to configure a windows xp shared printer, on initialise of print manager the following error occurs: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: the IPP request failed for an unknown reason. Tried several times, Printer is epson cx6400 shared on existing network. I can see shared network resources on linux machine, so network connectivity appears ok. Thanks
Check your /etc/hosts file, and make sure that it reads: ``127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost" CUPS can be very nitpicky about hostnames not being resolvable, and in most cases I've seen with that problem, it was a hostname issue.
Be sure that the CUPS server is running on your machine ("ps -ef | grep cupsd").
UNCONFIRMED (batch reassigning messed this)
No news from reporter, assuming fixed - probably just a config error anyway