Re: HELP! Configuring printer to print through a NT Print Server.

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Statux wrote:

>> 3. At 'Configure a Window Print Queue'..
>>  share - \\stprint\itprint2
>>  Host IP - 138.4.1.221 (should this be the printer server or the
>> printer IP address???)
>>  Workgroup - stlc
>>  User - seowleng.kwek
>>  Password - 
>
>Host IP should be the IP of the print server (the server handling the 
>local queue; the unspooler). Printers don't have IP addresses. Print 
>servers do.

Some printers come with both a parallel port and a network card. They
can connect directly to the network and run an internal print server
service. That service generally supports one or more of SMB, Netware, and
lpr/lpd.

Every HP printer that I've seen like this supports printing on the RAW
queue from lpr/lprng on a Linux box. You can also configure the printer to
log error and status messages to syslog on the Linux box.

In this case he wants to use the NT box as a print server. The config
steps he's taken should work after he's fixed the slashes. He might also
try just putting the printer name in the share box and leaving the
server name out. There is a separate box for the host IP.


Tony
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Re: HELP! Configuring printer to print through a NT Print Server.

[Statux]

> 3. At 'Configure a Window Print Queue'..
>   share - \\stprint\itprint2
>   Host IP - 138.4.1.221 (should this be the printer server or the
> printer IP address???)
>   Workgroup - stlc
>   User - seowleng.kwek
>   Password - 

Host IP should be the IP of the print server (the server handling the 
local queue; the unspooler). Printers don't have IP addresses. Print 
servers do.

Also, careful with the backslashes in the share name. backslashes are 
escape characters to the C language (and many other languages). Usually, 
you have to use /'s instead. If that doesn't work, try using 
stprint\\itprint2

-Statux




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HELP! Configuring printer to print through a NT Print Server.

[Kwek Seow Leng, SCL, IT, Infrastructure, Database Administrator]

Hi!

I am a newbie with Linux. I have just installed Red Hat 7.2 on my Win98
machine with dual boot.

I am trying to configure Red Hat to print through the NT Print Server. I
have samba already installed. I have read the samba configuration,
documentation by red hat, and those HOWTO mini helps, etc... but none
seems to help. So any help from you guys would be greatly appreciated!

My NT print server's IP is 138.4.1.221 and my printer is HP 4050 and
it's IP is 138.4.7.144. These are the steps that I took to configure Red
Hat to print.

1. Go to Printer Configuration. (KDE - GUI)

2. Enter the Queue Name and click on the Windows Printer (SMB) button.

3. At 'Configure a Window Print Queue'..
share - \\stprint\itprint2
Host IP - 138.4.1.221 (should this be the printer server or the
printer IP address???)
Workgroup - stlc
User - seowleng.kwek
Password - 

4. At 'Select a Print Driver', I select 'Raw Print Queue'. Also I tried
HP Laserjet 4050 - postscript.

5. I click the APPLY and it prompts 'lpd restart succeeded'.

6. Test print out and it prompts 'print send to HP (i.e the queue name).

7. At terminal, I key in 'lpstat' and find that the test print fails
after 3 tries.

What have I done wrong here? Should I install samba on the print server
too? Is there something that I have missed? . Any kind of help is
greatly appreciated!

Best regards,
Simon Kwek.



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