One last point: There are no messages at all coming through my var/log/messages file, aside from the lpd start/stop messages that I get whenever I try changing a setting.
Richard Crawford wrote: > Whoops. Sorry about that. I thought I'd sent out another e-mail > earlier with much more information, but I never got a response. I guess > it didn't get through. Heh. > > Okay, here's the scoop. > > I picked up an Epson Stylus Photo 820 printer. I picked up this one > because we need a photo-quality printer, and my research at > www.linuxprinting.org and other places indicated that this printer both > plays nice in a network environment like mine (where we have two win98 > machines, a win2k machine, and my occasional Linux box). The printer is > hooked up to one of our windows 98 computers, and is shared out > properly. My wife's Windows 98 computer can print to it perfectly, and > so can I as long as I'm logged in to Windows 2000. > > When I'm logged in to Linux, though, it's a different story. > > I have used printconf-gui to set up the printer on my computer. I > selected Windows printer (SMB printer); I entered the name of the > computer and the name of the printer share (e.g., > //CRAPPYWINBOX/STUPID_PRINTER)... Since this is Windows 98 which doesn't > worry about permissions, I have left the username and password fields > blank. For host IP address, I've tried the IP address of the hosting > computer, the name of the computer, and leaving it blank. > > I've selected the appropriate driver. > > But when I try printing from Linux, what happens is this: it feeds one > page through all the way, and then it feeds a second page halfway from > the stack into the printer... and then stops. At this point, I end up > having to press the form-feed button on the printer, and then turning > the printer off and on to clear out its cache (spool, whatever). When I > keep an eye on the printer monitor on the hosting win98 computer, > nothing shows up. > > I've looked at linuxdoc.org, linuxprinting.org, and comp.os.linux.redhat > for support, but haven't found anything relevant. > > I'm using Red Hat 7.2. > > I think that's all of the relevant information. Let me know if you need > more. > > > > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >> begin Jeff Newmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Richard S. Crawford wrote: >>> >>> >>>> After two days of fussing with my printer, which prints fine when >>>> it's attached directly to my Linux box but not when it's attached to >>>> the Windows98 box, I'm still no closer to a solution. Could it be a >>>> firewall issue? A Samba issue? A windows permission issue? A >>>> voodoo curse placed upon me by a vengeful player from one of my old >>>> D&D games? >>>> >>>> If *anyone* has *any* thoughts at all, please let me know. Thanks! >>>> >>> The lack of detail on what you have tried leaves me wondering whether >>> your linux box is speaking "printerspeak" yet. >>> >> >> lol. brutal but true. i have to admit, i deleted the msg without >> responding because there was so little detail, i didn't even know where >> to begin other than to say "what do your logs say", and i don't want to >> sound like the broken log record... :) >> >> >> pete >> >> > > > -- Sliante, Richard S. Crawford mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Yahoo!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When you have lost the ability to laugh at yourself, you have lost the ability to think straight." --Clarence Darrow "Push the button, Max!" _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
