Topic: Printers

[kenneth]

Hello,

I recently added a cannon bjc 1000 to my e-smith network, the drivers intstalled fine -it showed up on the network. the problem is when I try to print to it it ask's for a password, I tried the admin password - it didn't work, I tried every users password - none of them worked.

what's up with this is there some default password I don't know about (and yes I tried "default" as the password)

Kenneth

[Orville Carter]

Kenneth,
I am assuming you are printing to e-smith from Win9x machines.
Did you log in on Win9x using a valid e-smith user name.
In other words the name & password used to login on Windows9x must first
be already added to e-smith, using the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxe-smith-manager.

Test your system by login on Win9x as "admin" and password "default" (or whatever
is the root password. Then try printing from windows application.

Let us know what happens.

[Kenneth]

Hey,

Logging in as admin fixed the problem of the password, but now when I print, nothing happens, I tell it to print , then 5 minutes later it say's it's done, but nothing comes out of the printer (it doesn't even make a noise) It's plugged in, I know it works because it used to be attached to a single win98 box, before now, so I don't know what the problem is...

Kenneth

[Orville Carter]

Ok Kenneth,

Go to windows printers, "Right-click" on the printer and select properties.
Next look in the "details" tab, under "Print to the following port". There
you should see the following: \esmith-server-name\printer-name.

Is everything ok there? If not, choose add port and browse for the e-smith
printer on your lan. It should be smooth sailing from that point. Have the cannon
print driver cd or disk ready if windows needs it.

"Roger! Over!"

[Henry]

I hve 3 printers on my KAN. 2 connected to the e-smith box through parrellel ports and 1 on another windodze 95 client. The thing with the "add port" is right on in both the e-smith printers and the win95 printer. I added the printers to the e-smith box through the admin browser page and it worked great. All 3 printers function well after I added them through teh "add printer" window. I was asked to assign the lpt port in teh install, but ignored it and assigned a port later. Done deal.

Thanks for a great product.

Henry

[Kenneth]

It is fixed!!

(the printer worked after the e-smith server cold booted)

???

Kenneth

[Orville Carter]

Kenneth,

Go Figure! After re-boot????  That is odd!
Ah Well! At least its working.

OC

[Bob Finch]

I also had to re-boot the server to get the server's printer thru the
samba set-up. I DIDN"T investigate doing anything less drastic on
the e-smith server end; just re-booted the server from the web
interface.

Bob Finch

[Kevin McClain]

I had to reboot the e-smith box also to active any new printers.
Is there a way to stop and start a service to active them
without rebooting?

[Colin Mattoon]

I doubt it. I think that must be a RedHat quirk, that occurs on some (but not all) hardware -- rather than an e-smith problem -- because when I used a 486sx running RedHat 6.0 temporarily as a print server several months ago, it did the same thing. The "sighup" stuff, switching to runlevel1 and back to 3 didn't do it...I had to reboot -- although I didn't have to cold boot -- "shutdown -r now" did the trick.