[NTLUG:Discuss] Fatal error - Cannot bind to lpd port '515'

[Greg Edwards]

terry wrote:
> I'm not sure what would be easiest, to just re-install RH9 and start over?
> 
> Problem probably is that this system was originally RH8, but I upgraded 
> it to RH9.  In other words, I just booted to RH9 and chose the upgrade 
> option, and (probably) should have just done fresh install and saved my 
> home dir, but I didn't, I wanted to see how the upgrade option worked. I 
> guess now I'm paying for it.
> 
> Or not... I don't know for sure, just have suspicions.  I don't know 
> what else it could be. All I know is I don't seem to be able to figure 
> it out.  I just don't quite know enough to figure it out on my own and 
> it seems that being able to use a printer shouldn't be so tough.
> 

Terry,

I have not been following this thread so if I'm repeating here just 
ignore it.

When I upgraded to MDK9.0 I had similar problems with cups.  I could get 
it to print from one box only and test pages from all of the boxes on 
the network.  None of the applications could print and I'd get the 
cannot bind or port already in use error messages.  I beat myself to 
death on this for 3 days before I finally got it working.

To make a long story short what I found was that I needed to run the 
cups server deamon from the same machine that the printer was physically 
connected to and let all other machines find it using the broadcast 
feature.  To get this working I had to completely remove cups from every 
machine and then reinstall the server machine.  It seems that once cups 
is hosed there is no fixing the config.  I have MDK so I used their 
config GUI to get the printer setup.  Once I had the server working on 
it's own I reinstalled each of the clients and let them find the server 
using defaults.  Now I don't even look at if funny for fear of something 
breaking and having to do it again ;(

I don't know if this helps, but good luck.

-- 
Greg Edwards
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