On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > No, JetAdmin and CUPS/lp* do very different things. Among other things, > JetAdmin and friends can communicate via SNMP to a networked printer, > allowing you to do fun things like reboot it or query paper status and > things like that. CUPS/lp* only handle local queue stuff. They don't > do much talking to printers beyond sending jobs to them. > I hate to leap in here, but I have been just looking at a similar problem. The basic setup: old standalone NT box, using LaserJet 8000 DN printer. JetDirect software, and the card, were installed but never used. New debian box (have to share with W2000) connected to LAN. Is there any way to use the debian box to (a) feed print jobs to the 8000, and (b) monitor print status, queue, etc., thru JetAdmin and JetDirect? The 8000 has to remain with the old NT box as the basic setup, but it seems a shame to waste it's rather significant potential. I have looked around for some linux JetAdmin stuff, found nothing. I have a second card in the new box that I tried connecting to the JetDirect card, to see what I could do, but so far no luck. Perhaps even tho there is no JetAdmin stuff available for linux, are there other possible ways of controlling this big dog of a printer thru the debian box? I suspect that the original poster is in somewhat the same situation, wondering what to do next? Thanks for any decent suggestions.
-- Gary Dolan Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, Kernel 2.5.1-pre8 FreeBSD 4.4