Thanks for the tips. I do indeed have samba installed and running. So i should be using smb://scotty/itcolour as the address to access the printer, is that right? (does it matter that the printer is connected via a JetDirect card?) I'll check the firewall issue out on monday when i'm back at work. thanks Jamie >From: Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Accessing NT networked printer from Linux >Date: 07 Sep 2001 11:20:39 -0500 > >On 07 Sep 2001 16:34:08 +0100, Jamie Kerwick wrote: > > I am running Mandrake 8.0, i've tried using both the webmin and the Kups > > tool. > > My printers are running on jet direct'd i've tried using the socket >method > > with no success. If it helps in NT the port that it uses is ITColour. > > The problem with the socket based thing is that i don't really >understand > > the instructions give in the help files. Can someone point me in the >right > > direction. > >I am going to assume that you have the Samba client installed, and that >you can access network file shares using it. If not, then you will need >to get Samba installed and configured before you can do any SMB >printing. Once you can access network file shares, then move on to >printing. > >If your network printer is actually shared via the print server, then >you will need to use SMB printing -- sorry if I was unclear on that >point. Your SMB printer address would then be something like you >previously mentioned: \\printer_server_netbios_name\printer_share_name. >You may need to know the IP address of the print server, because your >Samba client may not otherwise be able to resolve the server netbios >name to its IP address (this is not a consistent issue, but I have seen >it happen). The netbios name is whatever name shows up for that print >server in Network Neighborhood -- not the printer itself, but the >computer name (I assume your are correct when using SCOTTY for the >name). The share name for the printer is, again, whatever name appears >in Network Neighorhood (ITColour?). > >Make sure you are not running a firewall: '/sbin/ipchains -L' will list >any firewall rules that may be in effect, if you are using ipchains. >With Mandrake 8, you may very well be on a 2.4 kernel with iptables. In >that case, I am not sure of the syntax to list iptables firewall rules >-- maybe '/sbin/iptables -L'? If you get a list of rules other than a >bunch of ACCEPT policies, then you may need to temporarily shut off your >firewall just for testing/debugging. With ipchains, this is >'/sbin/ipchains -F' (must be done as root). With iptables, I don't know >-- maybe '/sbin/iptables -F'? > >Whenever I have run into the issue where my printer appears to be >defined correctly, but CUPS continually shuts it down or lists it as >'unreachable" (or something to that effect), it has been because I >forgot to disable my personal firewall. > >Dave ><< attach3 >> _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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