Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 4:50 pm, Larry Williams wrote: Hi All. I'm new to this list, and I've checked the archives and tried all the suggestions I've found, but I am still unable to printfrom either of my two Win98 boxen. My Mandrake 9 machine has most of the packages installed but none are upgraded yet. I'm using kernel 2.4.19.16mdk samba 2.2.6-1.0pre2.2mdk CUPS 1.1.16-0.4mdk The network and firewall functions - all machines can use the internet connection on the Linux box - but pings to the linux box fail. I don't know if it's related, I doubt it, but just in case... I've created smb.conf based on a message in November by Anne Wilson, and my cupsd.conf is based on several messages found here and elsewhere. I can provide them if you like. The error I get is in cups/error-log. It states it is unable to convert file 0 to printable format even though a raw file is sent and application/octet-stream is enabled in both mime.* files. Any thoughts? Should I consider PDQ or find and install some other lp daemon? If so, what print system should I define in Samba? Thanks in advance, Larry Hi, Larry. It's usually best to fix one problem at a time :) So, which is most urgent for you? I don't know much about firewall issues - my router takes care of that for me, so someone else will advise you there. It sounds to me as though that might be a good part of the issue. Also, is the printer physically attached to the linux box or some other? Can you print from the local printer? Is there no success at all, or is it networked printing that's the problem? What model printer is it. and how did you install it? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 4:50 pm, Larry Williams wrote: Hi All. I'm new to this list, and I've checked the archives and tried all the suggestions I've found, but I am still unable to printfrom either of my two Win98 boxen. My Mandrake 9 machine has most of the packages installed but none are upgraded yet. I'm using kernel 2.4.19.16mdk samba 2.2.6-1.0pre2.2mdk CUPS 1.1.16-0.4mdk The error I get is in cups/error-log. It states it is unable to convert file 0 to printable format even though a raw file is sent and application/octet-stream is enabled in both mime.* files. Any thoughts? Should I consider PDQ or find and install some other lp daemon? If so, what print system should I define in Samba? Thanks in advance, Larry Hi, Larry. It's usually best to fix one problem at a time :) So, which is most urgent for you? I don't know much about firewall issues - my router takes care of that for me, so someone else will advise you there. It sounds to me as though that might be a good part of the issue. Also, is the printer physically attached to the linux box or some other? Can you print from the local printer? Is there no success at all, or is it networked printing that's the problem? What model printer is it. and how did you install it? Anne Hi Anne. The printer is more urgent since all three computers can access the Internet. I just included the ping bit in case it was related. The printer is attached to the Linux box on /dev/lp0, it's an HP Deskjet 540. I installed it first during installation, where it was automatically detected. I didn't make any drastic changes to the pre-definied settings except to force grayscale. It does print locally and has always printed test pages. According to the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf), wherein I've removed and reinstalled the printer without any problems, the printer is using the recommended Ghostscript + hpijs driver, but I've also tried the CUPS+GIMP-Print v4.2.2 (en) and Ghostscript + [cdj|djet]500 drivers with the same results (local print works, remote from Win doesn't). Thanks for any help you can provide. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 4:50 pm, Larry Williams wrote: I didn't notice the model number in your header. I'm sorry to say that I think you are unlucky here. HP are pretty good at providing linux drivers, but mainly from the 600 series onwards. Check it out at http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/products/printing_imaging/deskjet_printers.html#supported Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 4:50 pm, Larry Williams wrote: I didn't notice the model number in your header. I'm sorry to say that I think you are unlucky here. HP are pretty good at providing linux drivers, but mainly from the 600 series onwards. Check it out at http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/products/printing_imaging/deskj et_printers.html#supported Anne Hmm. I kind of thought that. Do you know if there is an alternative to CUPS then? I guess I can use PDQ, but I'm not sure how to tell Samba to use it. Thanks, Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 5:40 pm, Larry Williams wrote: According to the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf), wherein I've removed and reinstalled the printer without any problems, the printer is using the recommended Ghostscript + hpijs driver, but I've also tried the CUPS+GIMP-Print v4.2.2 (en) and Ghostscript + [cdj|djet]500 drivers with the same results (local print works, remote from Win doesn't). This is better news. Mandrake must be providing a suitable driver. OK - when I tried to print over the lan, only a couple of weeks ago, I had much the same problem. I eventually got as far as having a readable file in a spool directory, but still couldn't get it to print. On the advice of Stephen Kuhn, I installed the windows driver on the windows machine, saying that I wanted to install over the network. I can't recall the exact sequence, but it then allows you to browse to the printer on the host machine, in my case it's //anne-linux/printer. Go throught the whole normal installation, but don't print a test page. Take the re-boot, then call up the printer in the usual My Computer/Printers folder, and print a test page from there. It worked for me Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 5:40 pm, Larry Williams wrote: According to the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf), wherein I've removed and reinstalled the printer without any problems, the printer is using the recommended Ghostscript + hpijs driver, but I've also tried the CUPS+GIMP-Print v4.2.2 (en) and Ghostscript + [cdj|djet]500 drivers with the same results (local print works, remote from Win doesn't). BTW, I would recommend sticking with the Ghostscript + hpijs driver - I've had problems with others, and they generally seem to be reliable. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:47, Anne Wilson wrote: This is better news. Mandrake must be providing a suitable driver. OK - when I tried to print over the lan, only a couple of weeks ago, I had much the same problem. I eventually got as far as having a readable file in a spool directory, but still couldn't get it to print. On the advice of Stephen Kuhn, I installed the windows driver on the windows machine, saying that I wanted to install over the network. I can't recall the exact sequence, but it then allows you to browse to the printer on the host machine, in my case it's //anne-linux/printer. Go throught the whole normal installation, but don't print a test page. Take the re-boot, then call up the printer in the usual My Computer/Printers folder, and print a test page from there. It worked for me Anne Hi Anne. Yes, I've done this as well. Before I installed Mandrake 9 I was using Red Hat 7.3. It came with lprng and CUPS, and I couldn't get CUPS to work then either. But lprng worked just fine. I thought I could go get lprng and put it on Mandrake, but I ran into roadblocks: The source won't compile because (I believe) I'm not using an ANSI C compiler (just gcc that came with Mandrake) and the RPM is too specific to Red Hat and I couldn't get the dependencies to load (one was older than an existing package and the two necessary libraries aren't part of the new package). So unless I can upgrade my printer (which may happen in the next month along with a system upgrade), I'm open to alternative print spoolers, or PDQ if I can properly configure Samba. Thanks, Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 5:57 pm, Larry Williams wrote: On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:47, Anne Wilson wrote: This is better news. Mandrake must be providing a suitable driver. OK - when I tried to print over the lan, only a couple of weeks ago, I had much the same problem. I eventually got as far as having a readable file in a spool directory, but still couldn't get it to print. On the advice of Stephen Kuhn, I installed the windows driver on the windows machine, saying that I wanted to install over the network. I can't recall the exact sequence, but it then allows you to browse to the printer on the host machine, in my case it's //anne-linux/printer. Go throught the whole normal installation, but don't print a test page. Take the re-boot, then call up the printer in the usual My Computer/Printers folder, and print a test page from there. It worked for me Anne Hi Anne. Yes, I've done this as well. Before I installed Mandrake 9 I was using Red Hat 7.3. It came with lprng and CUPS, and I couldn't get CUPS to work then either. But lprng worked just fine. I thought I could go get lprng and put it on Mandrake, but I ran into roadblocks: The source won't compile because (I believe) I'm not using an ANSI C compiler (just gcc that came with Mandrake) and the RPM is too specific to Red Hat and I couldn't get the dependencies to load (one was older than an existing package and the two necessary libraries aren't part of the new package). So unless I can upgrade my printer (which may happen in the next month along with a system upgrade), I'm open to alternative print spoolers, or PDQ if I can properly configure Samba. Don't give up yet. Some of our most experienced posters will be around, probably this evening. There could be much better advice. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 04:48, Larry Williams wrote: On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 4:50 pm, Larry Williams wrote: I didn't notice the model number in your header. I'm sorry to say that I think you are unlucky here. HP are pretty good at providing linux drivers, but mainly from the 600 series onwards. Check it out at http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/products/printing_imaging/deskj et_printers.html#supported Anne Hmm. I kind of thought that. Do you know if there is an alternative to CUPS then? I guess I can use PDQ, but I'm not sure how to tell Samba to use it. Thanks, Larry Sometimes you can use WEBMIN to bypass the BS with either LPD or CUPS printing...and it does have it's own proprietary drivers - and works like a charm - WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS... HTBH !!! -- Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:15:00 +1100 11:15am up 9 days, 20:58, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.19 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Marge: Homer, remember you promised you'd try to limit pork to six servings a week? Homer: Marge, I'm only human. Principal Charming Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
