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Friday November 07, 2003

What's the best way to setup networked printing?

I made the switch to my new XP box last night - swapping hard drives, CD Burners, etc. from the old to the new. In the process of putting 1.5 GB of RAM into my Linux box, I thought I'd upgrade Samba to 3.0 and setup a shared printer. Samba upgrade - piece of cake. Installing a printer on RedHat - no luck. I've tried it before, but I've never succeeded. I have a HP OfficeJet G85 that is a great printer. My main goal is to setup this printer as a shared printer on Linux or XP and I'll be able to print to it via OS X, Windows XP and RedHat 9. However, I can never get it installed on RedHat - even though I select the right printer (using printconf-gui). It does recognize it as a USB device, but it can't print to it. On Windows XP, the printer installs (and works) just fine, but I can't print to it from OS X or RedHat - it just doesn't work. Here's what happens on both:

  • OS X 10.3: I select Windows Printing and I can navigate to my XP Box, but I can't connect. When I try to view the printers, it hangs for a couple of minutes - then I'm prompted for a login and my XP login doesn't work. This same login/password works just fine for connecting to shared drives. I think it's a bug in Panther.
  • RedHat 9: I select Queue Type: Networked Windows (SMB) and my Windows box does not show up in the list (just the RedHat box and my PowerBook). If I try to manually enter my server, printer, etc. it just flashes and prompts me again.

I do have a wireless print server that I could probably use, but that's hooked up to our Canon 900 Photo Printer - which only seems to work well if it's plugged into the wireless print server. We've tried to plug it directly into a Windows box and print, and the quality just isn't as good - who knows why. I bought a USB hub for it in hopes of hooking up multiple printers, but that doesn't work either.

I wish I could just give my HP an IP address - then it would probably work for all of them, but alas, all it has is USB.

The fun part of all this switching hard drives? I thought I lost a 20 GB drive of important data this morning - I was up until 2 a.m. last night trying to fix it. Luckily, I got some assistance from Experts-Exchange this morning and didn't lose a thing.

Update: I got this all working using HPOJ and CUPS. I did have to uninstall LPRng and cups from Red Hat 9 - then re-install CUPS from source. I also had to install Ghostscript and all its fonts. Finally, to get it to share the printer via Samba, I had to tweak some Samba config files.

Posted in General at Nov 07 2003, 05:14:34 PM MST 4 Comments
Comments:

Matt, You should use the local queue if the printer is attached, device /dev/usb?? as to where its connected, only use the SMB queue if its attached to the XP box and already shared, and the XP box has "Client for Microsoft Networks" and "File and Print Sharing" enabled on the net adapter.

Posted by Cameron Gra on November 09, 2003 at 09:10 AM MST #

I think Dion had a similar problem, check out http://www.almaer.com/blog/archives/cat_tech.html

Posted by guest on November 10, 2003 at 05:23 PM MST #

Thanks for the link (text and background are both white in IE, works fine in Mozilla). Once I got everything working (see update in post) on Linux and Samba working with XP, it was easy to connect using my Mac.

Posted by Matt Raible on November 10, 2003 at 05:31 PM MST #

Good to hear you got this working. When you get a chance, you may want to upgrade to Fedora Core 1. http://fedora.redhat.com. It ships with CUPs and co, and it is the natural upgrade from redhat 9

Posted by Koz on November 10, 2003 at 07:37 PM MST #

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