[SLUG] USB Printer

[Edwin Humphries]

We're trying to share an Epson USB printer via Samba on our new Fedora server.

The share is set up OK, and can be seen and opened from Windows clients. However, 
although the Fedora box can print to the Epson, the Windows boxes can.

All other Samba shares, including a laser printer connected to the parallel port, 
work fine.

Does anyone have a clue how to fix this?

Edwin Humphries,
Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
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www.ironstone.com.au
Phone: 02 4233 2285
Fax: 02 4233 2299
Mobile: 0419 233 051
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[SLUG] USB printer

[Edwin Humphries]

I have recently installed a USB inkjet printer on a new PCI card into our Red Hat 
7.2 print server. It already runs a SAMBA-shared laser printer off the parallel 
port.

The new USB card shows up (but apparently twice: once as a Natoma/Triton II with a 
usb-uhci driver, and one as a Lucent Microelectronics with a usb-ohci driver. I'm 
not sure how meaningful this is.

The laser printer is installed on /dev/lp0. The inkjet printer is installed on 
/dev/usb/lp0, and by all tests, the system knows it is there and a driver is 
installed. 

However, I can't print to the inkjet. In fact, when I tested on one occasion, data 
was sent to the laser printer, which printed out a UNable to open the initial 
device, quitting message. 

Restarting lpd has the following message:

Stopping lpd: [  OK  ]
Starting lpd: Warning - EpsonInkjet: cannot open lp device '/dev/usb/lp0' - No such 
device
[  OK  ]

Have I got the USB system duplicated somehow? Is the printer set up with the wrong 
device name: should it, for example, be /dev/usb/lp1?

Edwin Humphries,
Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.ironstone.com.au
Phone: 02 4233 2285
Fax: 02 4233 2299
Mobile: 0419 233 051
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