On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 03:04:32PM -0800, jsc_lists@rock-tnsc.com wrote:
Hello All,
Today is finally the day that I made the move to work 100% within Linux. SuSE 7.1 and Applix Office finally arrived just before the w/e. So Sunday night when baby and wife were in bed I slapped it on my laptop and my old desktop machine. Everything went very smoothly.
Congratulations. :-)
Now the last major hurdle (for the time being of course!) is the office printer. It is a Xerox Docuprint P8e laserprinter. It is connected to a Win98 work station in a peer-to-peer network (although this might change if they ever get the Windows 2000 server sorted out properly). The driver on the win98 workstation is for an HP Laserjet 6L PCL printer. Works fine under windows.
I have followed the manual and set up both pre-filter and forwarding queue. Checked it and double checked it. When I enter the command:
lpr -hp /some/ascii/file/to/print
I get the response: lpr: connect: Connection refused.
I can ping the workstation with the printer on it no problem. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should do next? If I can sort this out today it really will *make*my*day*.
Is the printer connected to the W2000 machine which is connected to the network, or does it have its own network connection? If the former, then I don't think you can just set up lpr with the W2000 machine as a target; you need to use Samba to talk to the W2000 machine, and then configure lpr to use Samba. However, I might be talking rubbish... -- David Smith Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380 (direct) STMicroelectronics Fax: +44 (0)1454 617910 1000 Aztec West TINA (ST only): (065) 2380 Almondsbury Home: 01454 616963 BRISTOL Mobile: 07932 642724 BS32 4SQ Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk