On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 12:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:21 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: > > I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get > > it to work. > > > > I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a > > router with a printer port. Under windows I just set up a port and put in > > the router base address and print to it. No problem. > > > > I tried the CUPS setup and it goes all the way through. I put in that it > > was an LPR printer and gave it the ip address but don't have a quename to > > give it. I tried MCC add a printer but it can't see the printer so it won't > > let me go farther. Also read a lot of man pages about lpr and print and > > other stuff like that. Tried those things to no avail. > > > > If anyone can give me a hint on what to do I would appreciate it. Have done > > the google think and don't seem to find anything. The d-link sit was not > > much help either although I did fine one thing where it said to put in the > > ip address and lp so I'm not that lp was the que name ot what. I have > > switched back to my doze system so I can't test that right now. Will > > tomorrow so I thought I would just drop this out to you helpfull people and > > see what other ideas people have. > > You were right, lp is the queue name. I had an old 704P and had it setup and > printing with an HP Deskjet printer. Since then, I have changed printers and > routers so I don't use it anymore. Concept is the same though, LPR printer, > IP address of the router and lp for queue name should work, if it doesn't > then I can try to help you troubleshoot it. > > BTW, based on my experience, using the router as a print server is only useful > under windows. Under windows, the computer that the printer is connected to > slows down when others are printing to it (Possibly higher resolutions > supported under windows or postscript drivers rather than pcl drivers). > Using a Linux machine for the print server, I never had that problem with a > shared printer.
I have a netgear print server attached to a router and this link tells how to set it up. http://www.aplawrence.com/Linux/netgearcups.html Worked like a dream first time - might help tho hardware differs. david
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