On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:27:35PM -0500, Merc wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:48, Don wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 01:11, Merc wrote:
> > > You'll be sharing that printer in no time!
> >
> > The printer is a shared printer now, so I was looking at two ways to
> > print:
> > 1 - direct tcp/ip via the JetDirect card
> > 2 - using the existing Windows share
> >
> > It seems option 1 is the simplest, and at home I got it set up like that
> > in a matter of minutes... it was literally, redhat-config-printer, use
> > all the default/recommended settings, print a test page.. voila! Done.
>
> Indeed, JetDirect should be the way to go; I was only responding to your
> questions about file/print sharing. By "sharing that printer in no
> time", I meant, "you'll be using that shared printer in no time". In
> other words, editing your smb.conf and smbpasswd files to conform to the
> domain/user/passwords in your LAN and starting the smbd daemon usually
> helps things along. It's an alternative to JetDirect, if you can't get
> that working.
Well, when you say "JetDirect should be the way to go" I don't know if you
mean the old cheesy non-protocol used by old jetDirect cards (sometimes
referred to as "JetDirect protocol"), or if you mean generic hp jetdirect
card support. Modern JetDirects provide LPD emulation, which can easily be
accessed from a linux print spooler by choosing "unix" as the print/spool
type, entring the printer's IP address in the "printer name" field,
entering "raw" in the queue name field, choosing the printer and driver.
As an aside, I ran into one today, while remotely logged into a customer
site, where their HP LJ5P did not have LPD printing enabled. I had to
telnet to the printer and enable LPD printing before the above stated
config would work.
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