On Thu, 30 May 2002, Heracles wrote: > Could anyone point me in the direction of a HOWTO or something similat that > will help me access a network printer (not attached to a print server just > plugged into the network with a fixed ip). We have such a beast on the > network and I can't print to it from my Linux box (P4/1.8 SuSE 7.1 Ximian > Gnome kernel 2.4.26-SuSE) > This printer was placed on the network and the win2000 server loaded with the > drivers, it works from one of the win200 pro machines having been set up as a > local printer on a TCP/IP port. Unfortunately I cant seem to locate it with > my Linux box. Any clues welcomed.
Configure the printer to act as an LPR as well as a WindoZe printer? A lot of "direct" network connection cards only run a WindoZe client by default - consequently, any *nix box wanting to print to them has to A) Run samba or similar, and print via the windoZe client in it, or B) muck around wit hthe printer to enable LPR mode. You didn't mention the type of printer, so I can't detail further, but I know at least HP and Lexmark printers must have LPR mode explicitely enabled before working. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
