Netwok Printing

[Cow_In_Heat]

i am having problems getting a network printer set up on my redhat 8.0 install. my work is sharing out several windows network printers and have no idea how to get them recognized in linux. I have tried all the configuration option in the kde control pannel but as i am a linux newbie i have no idea what to do next. I have tried searching the forums but no cleat answer could be found.

Thanks
TheCowInHeat

[mdwatts]

If these are printers connected to Window's boxes, then you will likely need to use Samba (print/file sharing for Windows/Linux).

Redhat likely has online documentation on their site to help with Samba and Network Printing.

[Cerf]

Ive got the same problem, where can I get this information??

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by Cerf
Ive got the same problem, where can I get this information??

Search....

[retoon]

ok, when running Red hat 8.0, go into gnome menu-system settings ( or tools), then into printer configuration. Hit the new button, a wizard will pop up. Select Samba from the radio buttons, then hit next. The only thing that is neccessary in the next prompt is the name of the computer with the printer connected. Enter the computer name first, then the printer name eg. \\mypc\myprinter
Then, if you have a password for access to that computer, type it in the password prompt. Hit next, it will ask you to select the printer driver. Hopefully your printer is in the list. If it is, select the printer driver for it, then hit next. Whala! if it isn't, I apologize sincerely for making you read this!

[Cerf]

Humm, that didnt work for me. I even tried some tutorials. There are no errors, just the printers arent working

[retoon]

Are you sure the network is set up correctly? Try pinging the windows box with the ping command. Example
ping 10.0.0.2
It should send 64 byte packets in .222 ms or something. Also, run ethereal while you send the print command, it will list information about all packet transactions between the linux box and other boxes. One big question is, who makes your printer, and what model number is it? Is it laser? Have you tried using the generic pcl and post script drivers? Keep posting, this seems like a simple enough fix.

[Cerf]

I just reloaded my computer, Im going to try again. I dont think that Ill have the problem because Im going to try a different way of doing the printer config

[retoon]

Best of luck to you my friend, if you need anything though, you know where to ask.:)

[WyeKnott]

I have a W2K Peer Network and I've added a RH8 Linux box. The RH8 box has no printers so it has to use the W2K printer. The printer I need to share is a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4 with 8MB added RAM. It works fine with Windows and always has. The printer is attached to the parallel port of one of the W2K boxes. The SAMBA add-in is version 2.2.7-2. Four RPMs are installed including swat.

BUT from Linux, only the ASCII Test page works. EVERYTHING else about this install seems to work well. File shares (both ways) are fine. Printer is visible.

I installed the Printer using the Gnome GUI applet and selected SMB printer. I gave it the host, uid, pwd, etc. I selected the driver called hplj4. I selected 300dpi and pre-render fonts.

The PS Test page is a fright. Only the top 1/3 of the page even TRIES to print. The borders are broken. The fonts are "rendered" but unreadable; they look "washed-out" and smudged; the RH8 graphic renders properly, but at 300dpi, the result is really primitive looking.

So far, nobody has even responded to this problem.
Is it too hard?
Is a non-postscript printer totally useless with Linux GUI apps?

I'm a newbie with Linux and trying hard but I'm getting no responses and I've looked everywhere I could think of and read everything that looks related on the net. No help yet.
I can't afford to go buy a PS printer just for Linux.

TIA,
Wye