From the POV of a Windows techy (me) this is dead easy with any version of Windows I am familiar with (certainly under NT or better) and yet Linux doesn't seem to be able to do it. Why not? Are JetDirect boxes that uncommon? It's very, very frustrating because I am so itchy keen to migrate everything to Linux but without this relatively ordinary printer setup I can't do it. Following the advice I've had I've tried looking at the HP site, I've tried looking on the net, I've posted in several forums and mail
Why is it so hard to get configuration information on Linux with a fairly common networking component i.e. a JetDirect box? lists, I've d/loaded WebMin and HP JetAdmin for Linux and each time I've been stumped. I freely admit it might be me and my inexperience with Linux but I really don't see why it has to be this damned hard ... I'm beginning to believe that my only recourse is to drop back to Windows as the centre of my network and I really, really would rather not do that. Someone, somewhere out there must know how to configure printers on a multi-port JetDirect box? James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ
On Thursday 12 December 2002 2:31 am, James.Rocks@equant.com wrote:
Why is it so hard to get configuration information on Linux with a fairly common networking component i.e. a JetDirect box?
this isn't exactly the answer you want to hear, but it turns out jetdirect boxes are even difficult to set up on HP-based (mini) mainframe systems... [search the newsgroup COMP.SYS.HP.MPE for all the problems people have getting these to work within the same family!]
Hello! I've noticed that if I put a line for automatically mounting a NetWare volume via ncpfs in fstab, the startup scripts tries to do this mounting *before* the network is up and running. Of course the mount will then never take place. Example line: EROFS1/Berit.hq.se /mnt/temp ncpfs \ multiple,tcp,ipserver=erofs1.norrbring.biz,uid=root, \ mode=644, \volume=/TEMP/TEMP,passwdfile=/root/.erofs1 0 0 (All in one line, of course..) I solved this by entering the following in boot.localfs: mount -av -t nonfs,noproc,nodevpts,nosmbfs,noncpfs And then a file ncpfs in /etc/init.d/ncpfs that I set to run in levels 3 and 5 via inetd. # ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: ncpfs # Required-Start: $network syslog # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: # Description: Import NCP (Novell NetWare) file systems from /etc/fstab ### END INIT INFO # Status shell functions . /etc/rc.status # Reset status of this service rc_reset # # Mount NCP filesystems in '/etc/fstab' # echo "Mounting NCP file systems..." mount -av -t ncpfs rc_status rc_status -v1 -r rc_exit I just think this (or an even more sofisticated solution) would be a parts of the "default" system installation. If you find out a better way to do this, please let me know! Regards, Anders Norrbring.
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