Hello, On Oct 16 11:25 Robert P. J. Day wrote (shortened):

now i want to add the printer to the network as well since it has a network port. i plugged the printer into the net, then checked the DHCP leases on the router and, sure enough, a new lease. pinged that IP address, it responded and i verified it's the printer (192.168.1.177).

Make sure your DHCP server assigns always the same IP to the printer because its IP becomes a hardcoded part of the CUPS Device URI so that printing would no longer work when its IP changed.

but when i run the samsung utility, and search for network printers, none are found.

When even the tool of the printer manufacturer doesn't find it, a generic tool like CUPS' snmp backend may most likely also fail to find it.

if i try to add that net printer thru yast2, yast doesn't see it on the net. should it?

Compare http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/Printer_Enhancement ---------------------------------------------------------------- Under construction for openSUSE 11.1 ... In particular the "Connection Wizard" should work basically but some features (e.g. testing this or that connection type or printer autodetection via network) may not work. All connections of autodetected printers are directly available without using the "Connection Wizard". Initially only connections for locally connected autodetected printers are shown. To show also connections for autodetected network printers, click [More Connections]. To verify printer autodetection via network you may run as root the CUPS backend /usr/lib[64]/cups/backend/snmp manually but have in mind that this works only for those network printers which can be detected in the local network environment via some generic SNMP queries (which works usually for HP and Kyocera printers with a built-in network interface). ---------------------------------------------------------------- See also http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/network.html "Troubleshooting SNMP Discovery Problems" and http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/ref-snmp-conf.html

p.s. ok, that seemed to work being done manually by using the URI lpd://192.168.1.177/scx. but shouldn't i have expected yast2 printer configuration to have detected that printer? or am i expecting too much of printer configuration?

Autodetection of the IP may work (see above) but autodetection of the remote LPD queue name "scx" inside the printer (there is a LPD running in the printer) is impossible because the LPD protocol does not provide a functionality to list all queues on a LPD server - i.e. the client must somehow know the queue name in advance which means in your case that you would have to read the printer manual which LPD queue name it uses internally. Often an arbitrary queue name or 'LPT1' works somehow. But using a correct LPD queue which does not somehow change the data or add additional formfeeds or banner pages could be essential for reliable printing. Compare the help text for the "Connection Wizard" of the YaST printer setup. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org