Well... This is the Mandrake list, thus I am using Mandrake and need to make things work with it. I need to print to shared network printers. I had been doing so via samba but they are now no longer samba shares. I need to print directly to the printers via their ip addresses. I have tried various configurations with printerdrake but nothing results in printing. I tried the remote printer, added the ip address of the printer, tried to print the test pages and get nothin'. I get a message in /var/log/messages saying that the real name of the printer could not be accessed. No printout results at all but the jobs get queued and stay queued until I physically delete them. The printers in this case are named "e2120 tek350" and "e2420 lw". I enter these names as "e2420_tek350" and "e2420_lw" AND I have tried without the underscore. These. Are. Their. Names. Yet I get messages about the real name not being able to be accessed and I get no output. These are both postscript printers that worked fine under samba. I was able, in the past before the network configuration was changed, to connect directly to the printers as well and print from them. I could transfer a postscript file to them and have that print out. Basic postscript printers. Buchan Milne wrote: > > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > > I need to print to network printers at school. They WERE samba shares > > until > > recently, and I could print to them via the samba printserver. Now, > > they > > are setup to be printed to directly. Problem is, I don't know how to > > set up > > the printers in this way. [...] > > Local means it's connected directly to a port on the machine. Is that > not what you want ? > > > I need to print to the IP address of the printers, setup as lp, lp0, > > etc. How does > > one set this up? > > Where do you want to print from ? Locally ? Remotely ?? What are you > trying to print from ? Windows, unix ?
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