I'm not done by far, but here's a quick summary for those who gave suggestions... Under Digital Unix the printing to port 9100 works correctly when the printcap prints to :lp=@205hp5si/hpnet:\ (where hpnet is 9100 is defined in /etc/services). The only problem here is the built-in accounting only accounts correctly for postscript and not PCL. And the add-on accounting script I have doesn't pass PCL jobs correctly. Under RH Linux 6.2, I added the printer direcly to port through RH Printtool, port 9100 is in /etc/services and it references a .config file under spool directory for the direct print information (contentsof .config: printer_ip=128.xxx.xxx.xxx, port=9100) (Printtool shows: printer DIRECT - Postscript printer at 128.xxx.xxx.xxx:9100) and it still doesn't work. and RH Printtool is used to So... instead of fighting with a custom way of fooling with it... I'm going to try LPRng (www.astart.com) and ifhp. Worth noting a new book I'm rushing an order on is: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/netprint/ And another reference worth noting is (http://www.linuxprinting.org/) I'm not done, and it will take awhile, so I thought I'd get this much out anyway. Thanks! --Dan >Ok... I'm trying to setup print accounting that will work with both >postscript from unix and PCL files from samba sending to the same unix >queue. (It appears that accounting that's normally built in usually only >works correctly with postscript files, and it has to be directly to the >printer port, not remote). > >I've been wrestling with this for a year now in my off time in both Dec >Unix and RH Linux. >I'd really appreciate any help so I dont get yelled at anymore. > >First step is to get printing working direcly to HP jetdirect port 9100. >I can telnet to printer:9100 and get a response, but when the printer is >setup, jobs aren't printing... either they disappear with no log they went >in or out, or they sit in the queue. > >I was just trying to see if the "as shipped" lpd would do accounting right >for PS & PCL. > >Perhaps I should ditch lpd and go straight to using LPRng? > >Thanks, >Dan _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
