network printer

[bailey]

I have a HP4L printer fitted a print server in to the connector with a cat-5 cable going into a network switch, works great with all windows systems, but can't set up linux to use it.

any ideas on how to do this

[pbharris]

hello,
what disto? and and what print system (cups, lpnrg...)

[bailey]

I have two linux systems,
one has red hat 7.2
thehr has red hat 9.0

no printer connected to eather
both on same network
printer on same network

printer is used by the xp systems on the network with tcp/ip port

I can ping the printer server ok with both linux systems

[pbharris]

hello,
hummss - i have never had an issue with rehdat and printers - did you use redhat-printer-conf ?

i would try using jet direct or remote unix printer - all you should need is the ip address.

[CMonster]

all you should need is the ip address

-maybe also the port number which will likely be 9100

[bailey]

tnx I think that is what is missing
the port number
I'll try that and post back

[bailey]

it worked that way but the test print was 10 times bigger than it should be.
and it had the wrong format of the text

so there must be something else I am doing wrong

that was with jetdirect

[bailey]

still cant get it to print

[nukes]

What print system?
Does the print server use Samba/CUPS/LPR/PDQ?
Run a portscan of it and if it has 139 open, its samba, 661 for cups I think, and not a clue about LPR/PDQ but I doubt it would use them. Then its a matter of configuring your system via CUPS or LPD for that printer.

[CMonster]

HP4L printer fitted a print server in to the connector with a cat-5 cable going into a network switch

sounds like direct TCP/IP printer to me. Try another HP laserjet driver -maybe a generic laserjet 3. In linux it also matters which application you are printing from -they are not all well integrated like Windows printing applications.

you may find more information at http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_pr...HP-LaserJet_4L