Topic: Printer access denied, unable to connect

[Jos Wissink]

I am running SME Server 5.5 as a webserver and (home) network server. It is working properly in general, my only problem is that allthough the printers connected to the server work fine, I keep getting this "Access denied, unable to connect" error message for the printers when I want to approach them from my workstations.

Connected to the network are my notebook (Win2k SP3), my desktop computer (WinXP SP1) and two printers (two LPT ports on the SME server). I tried to search the forum and did find some posts on this matter.

In relation to the post http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=5109.msg18022#msg18022, I have the following question:

How do you determine the IP address of these printers to make the solution in this post work? Are there any other solutions possible?

Thanks in advance,
Jos Wissink

[brian read]

Jos

I am not 100% sure, but I think you use the IP address of the SMEServer, as (I presume) the printers are connected locally to the SMEServer.

Cheers

Brian

[JB]

Jos,

In my situation my printer has an internal Jet Direct card.  So, I have the printer defined in server-manager as remote with the IP address that I assigned to the printer.  I didn't test this with printers off of the LPT ports.  You could try the same thing I did one printer at a time.  Remove one of the printers, and then re-add it with the exact same name.  That way you shouldn't have to change anything on your clients.  See if you can manage it from in Windows clients.  If that doesn't work, then try a reboot to see if you can manage the newly re-created printer.  I don't remember if I had to reboot my server or not, but it shouldn't hurt anything that I can think of.

JB

[geoff]

Hi, Jos,

I have a laserprinter attached to the printer port on my e-smith 5.5U2 by parallel cable and have set it up as a local printer in the ServerManager.

If you need a Network Printer, Netcomm and Netgear both have a little Printserver which can have an IP address allocated which can be set up in similar fashion. Both work well with W98, W2k, and XP. No reboot was necessary.

geoff

[Ray Mitchell]

Jos
To have an IP address the printer must be a network device, which plugs into the network cabling etc.

You normally need to log on at each workstation with a valid username and password that is in sme server. Then all your users will have printer access without being asked for passwords etc.

There was a solution posted in these forums a few months ago where someone did some command line changes to allow access, do a search.
I think this is it
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14529.msg55495#msg55495

I have heard that you can have a printer connected to a workstation, and then setup in sme as a network printer and use the workstations IP address, but I have not actually tried it.

Regards
Ray Mitchell