Network Printer - Help too please

[fredex]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:27:20PM -0800, tonydm wrote:
> fredex wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 03:49:30PM -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> >
> >>On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:33:15PM -0800, tonydm wrote:
> >>
> >>>Terry Polzin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>On Thursday December 30 2004 20:46, tonydm wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hi all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I too have a network printer problem.  I cannot seem to get a printer
> >>>>>configured and work.  All of my windoze boxes print to the print server
> >>>>>fine.  Before taking FC3 for a test drive, I had Mandrake 10 installed.
> >>>>>Configured a printer no problem.  Was printing in minutes.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Intel NetportExpress 10/100 - ip 172.16.0.100
> >>>>>HP Laserjet 4000
> >>>>>
> >>>>>1) what to I need to enable (protocol) on the print server?
> >>>>>2) what kind of network printer type (CUPS-IPP, UNIX-LPD, WINDOWS-SMB,
> >>>>>etc), do I need to setup?
> >>>>>3) can I use the default hplj4000 postscript driver?  The screen says
> >>>>>"recommended"
> >>>>>
> >>>>system-config-printer
> >>>>
> >>>>select networked jetdirect as quque type
> >>>>run this command as root.
> >>>>
> >>>Printer is online!! :)
> >>>
> >>>But I feel like such an idiot.  I don't recall setting up the printer 
> >>>with Jetdirect under Mandrake.  I did recall directing it to the ip 
> >>>address at port 9100.  My problem was I was trying to set it up with 
> >>>everything EXCEPT Jetdirect under FC3.  I thought "it couldn't be this 
> >>>because I don't have a Jetdirect server".   Thanks for the education.
> >>>
> >>>tonydm
> >>>     
> >>It is not the server that is necessarily jetdirect it is the interface
> >>on HP printers that are jetdirect.
> >
> >Actually,... all the modern laserjets with an ethernet interface emulate
> >a Unix lpd print queue, which is much more flexible than the old 
> >jetdirect "protocol". so, just choose "networked unix lpd", use a
> >queuename of "raw", give it the printer's IP address, choose an
> >appropriate printer driver, and voila!
> >
> I truely welcome all the wonderfull advice.  But somewhere there is the 
> impression that I have a Laserjet 4000N with Ethernet built in.  I do 
> not.  I have a plain jane printer which requires a parallel connection 
> to print.  That's where the Intel NetportExpress 10/100 came in.  It is 
> the print server, not any part of the printer.

Ah. My mistake.

We had a customer, running RHEL WS 3.0, who recently configured a printer
on one of those. Maybe I can find out how they did it, but it'll take
a few days to get the info if I can get it at all. 

Fred

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