I have a weird one here, I think. We've been printing to an HP Laserjet 4 Plus, for years. We're quite a bit behind rev on LPRng and on ifhp, which we use for filtering, but I think that's irrelevant here. We print through a LAN to port 9100. This has now worked for several years with no problems. Oh, and we're running on a RedHat 6.2 system here, I should add. (Again, way behind current rev. If it ain't broke, we don't fix it, and there are some other considerations.)
We print directly from this system, but also from some PCs through Samba. We also have a SYSV Unix box, which runs its own lpsched-based system. Again, all this has worked for years. So we got some additional printers, all used - more HP 4 Plus, and a plain HP 4. At least one or two were put in place of the original printer & tested, I believe. Now they've been put out to other physical locations (& ones to which I have no normal physical access). Now with the 4 and one of the 4 Pluses, we found we could't print from the Linux server (including through it from Windows boxes). Now, I could connect to them (telnet to port 9100), type some stuff, disconnect. The Unix box can also print to them. After some investigation, it looked to me like ifhp was trying to query the printers using PJL, & they aren't responding to it. I tried to figure out how to suppress this, but things still didn't print. I took all filtering out, so that ifhp is no longer in the loop, & it appears that things print. So it sure looks as though these printers aren't responding to PJL, and so ifhp thinks that it needs to wait & retry, endlessly. I don't see anything in the printers' configuration that would address this. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks ... -- - Dave Lovelace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
