Re: [expert] Network printing
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 03:52, Anne Wilson wrote: The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an error saying unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net Any ideas, please? Anne either fix dns, or put that machine into /etc/hosts -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network printing
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an error saying unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net Any ideas, please? You need to add an entry to your /etc/hosts file that specifies an IP address for anne-linux.lydgate.net which is the machine that is broadcasting the printer connection. Without an entry to your /etc/hosts file, your machine is trying to connect to anne-linux.lydgate.net and the DNS server is saying that it does not know how to resolve that hostname. I assume that you are not running your own DNS server and DHCP server or else those would be setting the nameserver to the DNS and the DNS would be resolving the hostname for the box. On my local network, I use not FQD names as hostnames and on each machine, I need to add the IP addresses for all of these machines to the hosts file. Like: 192.168.0.125 anne-linux.lydgate.net 192.168.0.125 tom-linux.lydgate.net etc. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network printing
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 03:52, Anne Wilson wrote: The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an error saying unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net vi /etc/hosts? Any ideas, please? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network printing
Hi Anne, James is rihgt. If you don't have a decent DNS running within your LAN, you need to keep the canonical-Name - IP-Address translations in the /etc/hosts files on both systems (Printer-Server and Client). Also - make sure that Cups allows printing from this IP-Address. Default it denies it ... Cheers Joerg On Wednesday 03 September 2003 19:19, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 03:52, Anne Wilson wrote: The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an error saying unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net vi /etc/hosts? Any ideas, please? Anne -- Disc space -- the final frontier! | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt1)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Alt2)| | Web: http://www.solsys.org: Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | PGP Fingerprint: AF0F FB75 997B 025F 4538 5AD6 9888 5D97 170B 8B7A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network printing
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 6:59 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Anne, James is rihgt. If you don't have a decent DNS running within your LAN, you need to keep the canonical-Name - IP-Address translations in the /etc/hosts files on both systems (Printer-Server and Client). Hi, Joerg. My reply earliers doesn't seem to have got through. What I said was: Thanks, Bryan and Jack. You are both right, I'm sure. That box is a very low spec and hardly capable of anything, so I've never spent much time on it. I'm sure that's what it is. I've been thinking about it while I was out this afternoon and came to a similar conclusion. I'm going to replace the puny disk that has no room for manouver, sometime in the next day or two and re-install. It's a temporary fix, though, as I intend building a better machine in a few weeks. Meanwhile, I'll get essential services only running, but fixing the dns does count there :-) The router is acting as dns server, and could cope with the ip, but not with the name. I did have this box acting as dns server at one point, then changed my mind. I might change it back again :-) Thanks again, both of you Also - make sure that Cups allows printing from this IP-Address. Default it denies it ... Now this I haven't come across. Where do you set it? I have printed from the windows machines on the lan, though. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network Printing
On Thursday, October 4, 2001, at 11:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday we bought a HPLaserJet 4100N and we conected it directly to the network (it has it own ethernet card). We have several computers in the network, ones runing windows98 and others linux (Mandrake 7.2 and Mandrake 8.0). The main installation was done using the windows software that comes with the printer; this software is capable of give to the printer the IP number (this could be the problem, if you don't have a windows computer(95, 98, NT, Millenium, 2000 or XP) attached to the net, I don't know how to do that from a linux box; perhaps there are an alternative software but HP don't give you any chance. You can download the hp web jetadmin software for linux here. http://www.hp.com/cposupport/networking/software/hpwebjet_linux.selfx.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] network printing from SCO Unix to local printer on Mandrake
This would be better asked on one of the comp.unix.sco.* newsgroups but here is the answer anyway :) If you are using the scoadmin GUI, realize that it can only scan for other SCO boxes with printers (and I believe that it even says that some where on the menu or documentation). I have successfully configured a SCO v5.0.5 to print to a RH v6.2 box but you will have to (if I remember correctly) just fill in the settings in scoadmin-printers and not run the scan; scoadmin will just assume the settings are correct and try and use them. I believe that one the Linux box will have to add an entry for the SCO box in /etc/lphosts (or something like that). On Friday 25 May 2001 01:19, Darcy Brodie wrote: I am hoping that you can assist me with this. I am attempting to connect a SCO unix remote printer que to a local printer on a mandrake box. I have configured and successfully tested the printer under CUPS, but when I attempt to locate the remote printer on the SCO box, it is unable to locate it. This printer is visible and usable from other Mandrake machines on the network. There is no mention in any of the logs on the Mandrake machine of the attempts from the Unix machine attempting to gain access to the printer. I have added the IP and computer name to the /etc/hosts file, and allowed guest and public access to the printer I am running Mandrake 7.2, with an IBM postscript printer (This printer does work under the Unix, as I am replacing all our windoze and dos machines with Linux). SCO Openserver ver 5.0 with updates for the printing and security functions Darcy
Re: [expert] Network Printing
Alain wrote: about the same topic, in which file and with which syntax do you allow connection to lp from other computers? In /etc/hosts.lpd on the server. Till Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Network Printing
Le Mercredi 22 Novembre 2000 13:15, vous avez écrit :
Your servers are Linux machines, and you run your client now under
Linux, too, all Mandrake 7.0. Why don't you try to choose "Remote LPD"
in the printer configuration tool? Then you will be asked for the IP of
the server (do ifconfig on the server and look for the IP at the entry
of your ethernet card) and for the printer queue ("lp" in most cases,
see the printer's entry in the /etc/printcap on the server) and you will
be able to access to the printers.
about the same topic, in which file and with which syntax do you allow
connection to lp from other computers?
TIA
Alain
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Re: [expert] Network Printing
PatMc wrote:
I am trying to setup a printer on my 7.0 machine. The printer's in
question are connected to samba machines on my home network. One is a
560c and the other is a Panasonic 2023 on separate machines. The box I'm
trying to set up is dual boot and prints fine to either printer from
win98.
A printer was never configured on this box. I am using the printer
configuration tool under DrakConf to set up a SMB printer. For some
reason this is not working, the test page is not printed. Does printing
need to be setup locally before I can print to the Samba machine (Like
win98)
Your servers are Linux machines, and you run your client now under
Linux, too, all Mandrake 7.0. Why don't you try to choose "Remote LPD"
in the printer configuration tool? Then you will be asked for the IP of
the server (do ifconfig on the server and look for the IP at the entry
of your ethernet card) and for the printer queue ("lp" in most cases,
see the printer's entry in the /etc/printcap on the server) and you will
be able to access to the printers.
Samab is only needed for Windows machines to access to resources on
Linux servers or Linux machines to access to Windows servers.
Till
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Re: [expert] Network printing in MDK 7.2
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:24:52PM -0500, Roland Serman wrote: Does anyone know what I have to do to setup a network printer that is installed locally on a Win2K server. I can print to it from any box on my network and any OS, except linux that is. I've run the print configurator several times, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate them. Thanks. Since you haven't gotten another answer, I'll take a stab based on year+ old memory, and we'll see if I'm going senile yet. :-) If I recall correctly, NT 4 SP6 and W2k insist on encrypted SMB passwords, and earlier versions allow clear or encrypted. Somewhere in the registry there is a setting for the password encryption. Recent versions of Samba include the option of encrypting the passwords in a manner that W2K finds acceptable. If you can get the encrypted passwords working, that would be more secure than having W2K allow clar passwords. You might check that out. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley PGP signature
Re: [expert] Network Printing in LM7.1
Dennis Robertson wrote: A friend has a network running on LM7.1. He is unable to get network printing to work. Has anyone done this and are you able to help troubleshoot? If so I will relay exact symptoms. TIA. Does the box with the local printer have /etc/hosts.lpd set up with a list of hosts (name or dotted quad) permitted to use its local printer? This is necessary and is NOT set up by the Mandrake install. -- Regards, Ron. [AU]
Re: [expert] Network Printing
On Tue, 02 May 2000, Steve Philp fingered: "LOCAL" would be the 127.0.0.x network, probably not what you intended. Change the LOCAL to your actual network range and give it another try. I forgot to mention that I have another line also, as follows: ALL: LOCAL ALL: .mydomain.com (notice the dot before mydomain) Still no luck. You never mentioned if you got you system running after that :-) -- Ronald
Re: [expert] Network Printing
Hmm, I just have every host explicitly named in /etc/hosts.lpd like this: junky.cite.kotnet.org tailske.cite.kotnet.org defiant.cite.kotnet.org And it works. Well at least from junky; the guys that own tailske and defiant never bothered to set up their printing environments. Anyway, all I did on junky to get it working is: * fire up a printtool * choose to add a network printer * fill in host and printqueue name * select the same printer driver as on the box that controls the printer * set paper size and such trivial things, and that's it. On May 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 02 May 2000, Steve Philp fingered: "LOCAL" would be the 127.0.0.x network, probably not what you intended. Change the LOCAL to your actual network range and give it another try. I forgot to mention that I have another line also, as follows: ALL: LOCAL ALL: .mydomain.com (notice the dot before mydomain) Still no luck. You never mentioned if you got you system running after that :-) -- Ronald -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] Network Printing
R_Yeo wrote: Hi, I have 3 boxes running LM: a desktop and 2 notebooks. The desktop is connected to a printer. I cannot print from any of the notebooks to the desktop. I have read the Printing-HOWTO and edited my /etc/printcap files and I have also created an /etc/hosts.lpd file with the following line: ALL:LOCAL I set up the printtool and when I test it, I get the message: desktop: lpd:lp:Your host does not have line printer access when I do an lpq. "LOCAL" would be the 127.0.0.x network, probably not what you intended. Change the LOCAL to your actual network range and give it another try. I also ended up playing around with the files for awhile one night trying to get network printing working. I've since wiped that system, else I'd have more detailed information to offer. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Network printing question.
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:28:13PM -0500, Nyarlathotep wrote: Any ideas? Try increasing the debug level setting on the printer server and see if you get any useful error messages in the logfile. - rick -- Richard Kilgore | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Developer | http://lore.ece.utexas.edu/~rkilgore/ Graduate Student in Computer Engineering
