I have been using tcp/ip network printers with d3/linux for many years
with great success. I'm now trying to connect another printer to the
system without a networked pc in the middle by using an HP JetDirect
170x. I can print to the printer from an xp workstation but cannot from
linux or d3. I have configured the printer the same as the other
working ones. Anyone have any experience with this? Does SMB have a
problem with HP JetDirects?
Thanks for any help,
Terry Pennington Mukilteo WA USA

btw it's old d3 and linux d3 7.1.0 and red hat 5.1 or 5.2

Hey Terry. It's been awhile since we last heard from you.

I have several customers using jetdirects, but they are all using the 3 port
model on newer versions of Red Hat. Sorry I cannot address your situation
directly.

Of course you have the correct IP address set. On the 3 port models, you set
the Linux print queue to raw1, raw2, or raw3 depending on which parallel
port you are plugged into. Perhaps you can try setting the queue to raw1.

Regards,
Jeff


"terryp" <terryp (AT) rane (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks Jeff I'll try that. And, yes, it has been a while since I've
haunted this group - we've had firewall issues with news groups at work
and I haven't taken the time to stay in touch with this group
elsewhere. I'll let you know how I get on. Terry

Most of the recent versions of Linux support JEtDirect printers dirctly
out of printtool

You can also use "reverse telnet".

On our LaserJets with an internal JetDirect card, we just printed
direct to port 9100, and out came the results ...

I'm not sure how you'd do this, but it's another option ... possibly
it's as simple as "cat printfile laserjet:9100" or whatever the correct
socket syntax is.

Cheers,
Wol

<Anthony.Youngman (AT) ECA-International (DOT) com> wrote
a specific port of a specific ip address. NC stands for
'netcat', meaning "cat to a network port on a distant
computer." The rpm package that supplies it is called
nc also. Sorry I don't have a redhat 5.x install cd handy
to see if it had nc or not.

The lpr printer subsystem also had some sort of facility
for dumping raw {not rlp protocol} data to network ports,
seems to me there was a tilde {~} sep'n mark used in
/etc/printcap for this sort of thing.

Hang on to all your old Redhat linux install media;
I notice you can no longer download old copies of redhat; all the
sites formerly mirroring redhat seem to no longer do so, and
http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html takes you to
mirrors for fedora instead of for legacy Redhat.

Frank Winans wrote:
These two URL's may get you to older legacy RedHat software.

http://redhat.pacific.net.au/redhat/...2-en/iso/i386/
http://redhat.pacific.net.au/redhat/...1-en/iso/i386/

Dave Weaver, Weaver Consulting