On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 10:46:42AM -0400, Richard Schmitt wrote:Not professing to be an expert but;Switching to Fedora Core 2 seemed reasonably smooth. But now I am unable to connect to an HP LaserjetIIIP via the smb network. The printer runs on another Windows machine in the network. The network works. In fact, if I try to print on the Laserjet, the machine receives the message and runs two pieces of paper through but there is no printing on it.
The Laserjet seems to be connected and communicating with the Fedora machine, but the files to be printed somehow do not make it to the printer,
If Fedora and the Printer seem to "see each other" and the printer is spitting out "something" then my guess would be a driver/configuration problem on the Fedora box. I'd double check settings and see if something's amis there.
As to Fred's response:
I see a lot of "printing from Linux to winders boxes" issues on the list and it seems to be a chronic problem. May I suggest an alternative ??Not me, but I have had a lot of problems getting CUPS/Samba configured so that I can print from linux to windoze and also the other direction. I spent hours perusing the samba documentation, I urge you to do the same. I'm not (at the moment) running Fedora, but on my Tao linux box the samba docs can be found in /usr/share/doc/samba*4/docs, where there are several PDF files. also in a subdir are all the html files. There is a LOT of documentation there, so if you're willing to slog thru it you may find the info you need.
good luck!
Fred
I have a Netgear PS110 Print Server that I use in my network and no longer attach printers to the machine. It works great in the winders environment and setting it up in Linux has been a no brainer since RedHat 7.0.
I know there are those who will insist that I'm avoiding the problem rather than solving it but hey, if it works.....
Joebewan
PS. Fred, I like your signature.
