Networked printers

f1dave · 01-11-2005, 04:43 AM

Hello everyone, I was hoping I'd find someone else with a similar problem, or an extremely smart cookie who can fix this straight off.

I've got a home network running of my computer (Sarge Testing/XP) and the family 733mhz P3 (XP only). The P3 has a HP Deskjet 970Cxi attached to it, which is shared over the windows network and provides access for printing from my machine under XP. (Of course, the P3 has to be turned on for this to happen)

Anyway, I want to be able to print from Sarge off this printer, and was wondering how to go about doing such a thing. I've got a faint idea that I may need samba, and that I definately need CUPS, but past this, I don't have much to go on.

Therefore, if anyone's got any ideas or help for me, it would be greatly appreciated. Oh- and the computers are networked via a Billion 4-port Switch ADSL Router. Thanks.

BroX · 01-11-2005, 08:46 AM

This should cover it.

f1dave · 01-11-2005, 10:25 PM

Wowzers.

Cheers for that buddy, i'll let you know how I go.

f1dave · 01-11-2005, 11:43 PM

Right. CUPS and Samba are set up and working beautifully, i can see shares and i followed the instructions to the letter. There's only one problem... nothing prints and no errors are given!

I have a feeling it could be because of this:

formula1:/home/meacod01# enable HP
bash: enable: HP: not a shell builtin
formula1:/home/meacod01# accept HP
formula1:/home/meacod01# lpadmin -d HP

As you can see, the accept and lpadmin commands worked fine, but the enable one didn't. What's more, i'm not sure why. Any help on this one?

f1dave · 01-11-2005, 11:55 PM

hmm... here's a bit more information.

I've now enabled it (through csh, bash and bourne have a problem with it for some reason) but still, there's problems. That being stuff queues but never prints. That i can check through lpstat.

There's always a problem printing with debian. *sigh*

BroX · 01-12-2005, 02:16 AM

I configured CUPS using the internet interface http://localhost:631/
Then go to Manage Printers and fill out the right settings. You might have to experiment a bit to get the right syntax for the Device URI. The following works for me:

Code:

Device URI: http://130.232.59.159:631/ipp

When printing to the same network printer from Slack I have

Code:

Device URI: socket://130.232.59.159:9100/fyg_colorlaser

Good luck!

Cheers, Leon.

tripwire45 · 01-19-2005, 01:17 PM

I'm using your example to try to connect to the network printer at work using this example. It *almost* works.

Code:

Device URI: http://130.232.59.159:631/ipp

First of all, it takes quite awhile for the print job to process. In fact, I was in the process of trying to reconfigure my printer settings when the test print job finally prints.

Second, the test print produces the following:

Code:

POST /ipp HTTP 1.1
Content -Length: 286
Content-Type: application/ipp
Host: 130.232.59.159

Then there is a single line of print. The first part of the line looks like it was overwritten with another line of text, as if on an old typewriter, you typed a line, the carriage return without advancing the roller and continued to type. I can read the following on the second half of the line:

natural-languageen-usEprinter-urihppt://130.1

Then the line cuts off.

What am I missing?

BroX · 01-20-2005, 02:04 AM

You should substitute the URI in my example (130.232.etc) for the real URI of you network printer.

Cheers, Leon.

tripwire45 · 01-20-2005, 10:43 AM

Actually, I used your example for consistency's sake in my post. In real life, I did use the real URI for the network printer here.

BroX · 01-21-2005, 02:29 AM

Sorry I didn't get that

All I can suggest is to try different syntaxes. Google around to see what others use. The above mentioned work for me.

Cheers, Leon.