Re: printerserver


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Vermillion" <bv@xxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: <distro@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: printerserver


In article <OeWdneOk6N9trFPZRVnygg@xxxxxx>,
Ian Wilson <scobloke2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Flip wrote:
Hi,
For many years we have been using serial printers.
Nowadays they also come with builtin ethernet connection.
I managed to connect 2 printers this way: Started HP Network Print
Services,
added them with HP Network Printer manager. IP# 's added to /etc/hosts

There are some more printers with only serial and parallel interfaces.
So I
put a printerserver directly at the printer's centronics connector, gave
it
an IP# and added it to the /etc/hosts file. Adding the printer with the
HP
Network Printer Manager should do it, I thought...

Now I can ping to the printerserver. I cannot print. The file remains
waiting in the spooler. So where do I go wrong? Or what more should I
check?
(OSR5.05)


What make/model of printserver? I'd only consider using HPNP
with HP made network printers/printservers. IIRC HPNP needs SNMP
enabled at the printer end.

Since the OP never mentioned the brand name of the print server,
that's why I asked the question. I've used at least a couple
different brands that plug directly onto the Centronics connector.

Does HP make one like that. The ones I currently have at a
customers site are Axis and work well. There are others that don't
play well.

Some of the 3port HP devices ahd problems if the first printer
on the server got disconnected. Then nothing work. I don't know
if they've fixed that - but they should have by now.

I see three obvious ways of printing to networked printers with
OSR505, in order of preference:

1) netcat
2) lpd
3) hpnp

See Brian White's recent postings for a netcat bundle that should be
easy to obtain, install, configure and use.

I've been using netcat for years, and have been posting here long
before Brian came aboard. 23 years of Unix admin have taught me a
lot - and many from the ideas put forth by Jeff, "learn by
destroying".

Just for the record, Hey I agree. I didn't claim to invent netcat.
Prominently at the top of my script is a link and accreditation to the
existing netcat faq on Tony's site, which in turn is packed with references
and links and credits to everything else. Even more prominentlty is the same
link on the web page where one gets my script.*
And I do say "based on" not merely something like "similar to" or "works
like".

* Well, everything on that page can also be ftp downloaded from Tony's site
at ftp://pcunix.com/pub/bkw/ where you wouldn't see the web page.
The ftp site is a little more "you're on your own". Everything that has a
link on the web page I explain at least minimally on the web page.
I have other things in the same dir with the web page (and so, mirrored on
Tony's ftp site) that do not appear in the web page and which I do not care
to explain or support.
So if you don't like "binstall", or don't find the archive file names
meaningful enough, or download something totally borked like my attempt at
building pine & pico, ... tough. :)

Brian K. White -- brian@xxxxxxxxx -- http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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