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Title: Printer Problems
Post by: Carl Jeptha on January 19, 2000, 04:34:37 AM

Hi, I have a HP Laserjet hooked up to a HP Jetdirect. I can print in Linux but the windows machines cannot. I can see the printer in the "network neighbourhood". Any Sugestions???

Message to Charlie: Thanks, your patience and knowledge is greatly appreciated. I am almost at the point where I can retire my Novell Server.

Carl

Title: RE: Printer Problems
Post by: Charlie Brady on January 19, 2000, 06:23:37 AM

Carl Jeptha wrote:

> Hi, I have a HP Laserjet hooked up to a HP Jetdirect. I can
> print in Linux but the windows machines cannot. I can see the
> printer in the "network neighbourhood". Any
> Sugestions???

At the moment, your printing problem is purely between the
windows machines and the printer, and it has nothing to do with
the e-smith server.

However, you might like to print only from the server, since that is working. The 4.0 release of the e-smith server will include printer support. But it's not ready yet. Your best bet might be to visit http://e-smith.gormand.com.au/ and install the
e-smith and LPRng RPMs from there. That will allow you to set up
printer spooling via the server.

And I promise there will be a smooth upgrade path to e-smith 4.0 when it comes :-) [Check e-smith.gormand.com.au when the time comes, in case any special instructions are needed.

Charlie

Title: RE: Printer Problems
Post by: Joseph Morrison on January 19, 2000, 04:07:15 PM

Can you write more about exactly what the error is? The printing code in e-smith 4.0 is fully implemented, so if it's not working properly then you have found a bug.

When you print from the Windows machine, is that when the error shows up, or is there no error - but no output either?

Best regards,
- Joe Morrison