To be more specific:
My Lexmark Optra S 1855 printers are on the network and are Samba
printers.
They are identified in Cups and can be seen when attempting the win98
printer install. I have downloaded new drivers as well.
I have a multitude of desktop NT and W2K boxes printing to these
printers via the same route( samba, network).
For some reason the win98 boxes just will not comply with what I
consider very ordinary instructions. One of my win98 boxes is a
workstation and I am having the same problems with that one, so the
problem is not limited to the 'laptop' issue. I get the same errors
from the desktop computer.
For some darn reason it says it is not available to be used.???
Is there a caveat in smb.conf that I am missing that covers the win98
OS? Or is there the same caveat in the cups conf file for win98??
Michael C. Rock
-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Backward Thinker
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:54 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] win 98 and cups on rh8.0
A few clarifications req'd...
> I have two win98 laptops that need to be able to print to our network
> printers. I have all printers configured with cups running on our RH
> 8.0 box.
> When ever I try to install a Lexmark printer( Lexmark is all we
> have) on these laptops I get to a point where I get a message that
> says the printer is offline and then the installation will continue
> and look like a good install except that is always offline.
> The computer will hang if you try to print to the printer.
This is the w98 laptop that hangs? Your RH 8 box prints no problem?
> Do I need to know something about installing a network printer on
> win98 using cups on RH 8.0??? I have looked everywhere for some
> instructions with our any success.
Well, if you are trying to print through the redhat box there's a few
things you need to make sure of. If you want to use "standard" smb for
windows printing, you need to have samba configured and sharing printers
to your two laptops. You also need to make sure your iptables config is
not blocking ports 139 and 137 (137 for browsing) for your two laptops.
Samba has a lot of power, and can support "Point 'n Print" etc stuff, if
that is in your needs.
If you are trying to go straight to the cups server "LPR" style,
avoiding samba, you need to make sure you have an lpd listener to pass
the job to your cups backend (check /etc/xinetd.conf), and again,
iptables isn't blocking LPR traffic from your laptops and that cups will
accept remote jobs. Or, you can bypass your print-server altogether and
configure your laptop to send jobs directly to the network attached
printer LPR-style, at the quasi expense of reliability.
The preferred way for your win laptops is to configure samba on the RH 8
server with printer shares to accept print from your laptops and pass it
to the print queue of your cups backend. Check out samba.org, or look
at your RH config tools, pretty sure they'd have something of value for
initial configuration of samba.
Don't forget to open up your iptables config enough to let SMB or LPR
traffic through from your laptops. After you get started and have
problems with specific pieces, feel free to ask more specifically, but
there's no point wasting time and getting offtrack or overly-specific
about methods that may be outside your true goals.
> Michael C Rock
hope this is a good start, at least,
~ Daniel
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