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Title: Slow Samba printing
Post by: Ren on May 22, 2001, 01:43:27 AM

I've connected a HP720C windows printer on my e-smith box and shared it with samba with win98se stations.
Only the printing is very sloooow.... slow..  sometimes aprx. 10 mins. for a simple a4.

Any idea?

thanks

rene

Title: Re: Slow Samba printing
Post by: Jochen Hoegerl on May 23, 2001, 12:36:16 AM

Is that a real WinPrinter ?? And it works with Linux ??
Have you tried to connect the printer to one of the WinBoxes
and share it on the net to see if this works faster ??

Title: Re: Slow Samba printing
Post by: renven on May 23, 2001, 02:22:29 AM

Yes it is a winprinter hp720c and connected to a windows box is faster. Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Slow Samba printing
Post by: Alejandro on May 23, 2001, 05:44:15 AM

What about the bidirectional settings of your ports (it always give some trouble)
Alejandro

Title: Re: Slow Samba printing
Post by: enigma01 on May 24, 2001, 03:17:49 AM

OK - first things first a "winprinter" is unfortunately optimized to utilise the operating system and resources of a window$ PC....

SO it would appear that any thing you do will not improve the performance of this printer - samba emulates a windows pc NOT becomes one.....

?my advice? leave the winprinter on a windows box and shaere it on the network that way, failing that if your budget will stretch to it obtain a true "hardware" printer and fasten that to the E-SMITH


Hope this helps

enigma

Title: Re: Slow Samba printing
Post by: Jochen Hoegerl on May 25, 2001, 02:35:59 AM

renven wrote:
>
> Yes it is a winprinter hp720c and connected to a windows box
> is faster. Any suggestions?

I found this link on the SuSE support database

          http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1322

it is about gdi-printers and there is also rh7-rpm available,
maybe this solves your problem.

jochen

Title: Re: Slow Samba printing
Post by: Ren on May 25, 2001, 03:11:36 AM

I've browse the site and found some interesting HOW-TO information on:

http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net/PPA_networking/PPA_networking.html

It explains how to configure a HP PPA printer on a Samba machine..

Thanks, and when it works i'll let you know.

Title: Re: Slow Samba printing
Post by: Ren on May 25, 2001, 03:23:37 AM

Only, I couldn't find the rh7-rpm. Or will the rpm also work for redhat 7?

Title: Re: Slow Samba printing
Post by: Jochen Hoegerl on June 04, 2001, 02:00:47 PM

Ren wrote:
>
> Only, I couldn't find the rh7-rpm. Or will the rpm also work
> for redhat 7?

For Version 1.04 I found only a rh 7.1 rpm, try the one below

ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/Linux/redhat/7.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS//pnm2ppa-1.0-3i386.rpm


jochen