More printer problems

[Ardith]

I am having a few problems with my printer, although I really think it is in the network setup. I have an Epson Stylus COLOR 800 printer attached to my Samba server. Before I upgraded RedHat on it, it worked, albeit very slowly. I think this was caused by the wrong printer driver (I was using the Epson Stylus 800 driver).

Okay.

After I upgraded Redhat from 5.1 to 6.0 (yes, I upgraded it, instead of reinstalling it. I hoped this would save all the settings) the printer would not print anymore over the network, although it does fine printing from the server directly to the printer. I upgraded in hopes that it would speed up the printer, which it seems to have done. However, I can't figure out why it is not printing over the network anymore. My dad has been wanting to get this printer up for a while now, so any help would be _very_ greatly appreciated.

By the way, the workstations all have Win98 on them. Mine, which has Linux on it as well, won't even print over the network from Linux, although I am not completely sure that I set that up right; I didn't try it before I upgraded the server, so I don't know exactly how it works. I've had a post on Usenet for a week now, but nobody answered. I suppose it either wasn't interesting looking enough, or nobody knows how to fix it. http://discussions.linuxplanet.com/smile.gif

[Ardith]

One quick question...

Could somebody tell me why nobody ever answers my posts? I've only been really trying to work with Linux for the past 4 months. I'm trying to get things figured out, but it's hard.

If you want to show people the benefits of Linux, you ought to try to answer their questions. I didn't think they were that hard to figure out!

Or do I just happen to hit all the really tricky problems?

_Any_ help would be nice. Even just acknowledgement that somebody has read the question and tried to figure it out would be nice. Even just references to other places would be nice.

There's nothing worse than silence. It doesn't seem that I should have to wait days and answer my own post just to get a reply.
If there's some information I need give you, just tell me and I'll dig it up. But I need to know where to start. It's not easy trying to do everything by yourself, and I think you all should know that.

[furrycat]

If you can print direct from the box the problem's probably with Samba. If I recall correctly RedHat 5.2 shipped with Samba 1.9.18 so the version you had with 5.1 must have been even older. I know a lot has changed in newer versions of Samba so you're probably best off looking at the latest Samba documentation. Remember that you can use smbclient to connect to local services as a printer with the -P switch. In this way you can test the setup and even echo characters to the printer.

[Ardith]

Thanks a lot. I'll look that up.

Sorry about the reply above. http://discussions.linuxplanet.com/smile.gif

[geekd]

ardith -

these message boards are kinda dead. I think it's just that you ask hard questions :-)

I've never tried to set up a network printer. But I do know that samba changed ALOT between RedHat 5.1 and 6.0. You may just need to re-configure it. Try SWAT. it's the Samba Web Administration Tool and it's easy to use. Try "man swat" for details.

-geekd

[Ardith]

Thanks. I got it working though. It was just a really little thing. I needed a 'print command' line in the printer share. I finally found the samba docs, and those helped a lot.

Boy, do I feel like an idiot!

I guess that should tell me to slow down before I reply.

By the way, I have another problem. This one's a nice one though. All of a sudden domain logons started working when I wasn't expecting them to. I know that they started to work when I restarted samba after putting the 'domain logons = yes' line in, but I had tried that with the old version. Did that change a lot too? Anyway, I finally got the whole network up and running, so I shouldn't have any problems with that for a while.
Now I just have to get online with linux...