From the message that you are supplying, it sounds like you have your
system misconfigured to go directly to the printer and I don't know what
protocol (I am assuming that the printer is at 192.168.1.103). You
might try to use presto with the network attached printer detection
support now in Solaris. If you enable the SNMP based printer discovery
service (svc:/network/device-discovery/printers:snmp) via the command
line (svcadm) or GUI (start->administration->services), magic should happen.
# svcadm enable svc:/network/device-discovery/printers:snmp
The SNMP based network attached printer discovery service probes the
network for printers every 60 seconds (configurable). As it finds new
printers, it adds them to the HAL device tree, which causes the OSPM
(part of your JDS/GNOME desktop session) to prompt you create a queue
with a pre-filled "Add Printer" dialog. Since I don't know for certain
if this printer supports SNMP, I don't know if it will be autodetected.
Also, since we don't appear to have a PPD file for that exact model and
I don't know what PDLs it supports, I can't steer you to a substitute
make/model to select. FWIW, I know that some Brothers printers
purposefully respond to SNMP get requests for HP private mib extensions
effectively pretending to be an HP LaserJet printer. I would guess that
choosing one of the HP LaserJet mfg/models that closely resembles your
printer might work. At any rate, If you get a chance, I would be
interested in the information that goes into the HAL device tree for
your printer. You can retrieve it with
zsh$ for udi in $(hal-find-by-capability --capability printer) ;
do ; lshal --show $udi --long ; done
-Norm
Alok Aggarwal wrote:
> I'm trying to print from my snv_79 host at home
> to a network attached Brother printer (MFC 440CN).
>
> I can ping the printer's ip address just fine but
> when I try to print a document using 'lp' or 'lpr'
> it complains with the following message -
>
> Failed to contact service for 192.168.1.103: not-found
>
> Is there some sort of a setup I need to do on
> the Solaris host to inform it about the network
> printer available in order to get this working?
>
> Alok
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