Hello, On May 22 08:41 Chris Carlen wrote (shortened):
http://linuxprinting.org/forums.cgi?group=linuxprinting.ricoh.general
In particular http://linuxprinting.org/forums.cgi?group=linuxprinting.ricoh.general;articl... shows the real problem. Only to make sure that it is not the ftp client on the Linux machine try to use plain TCP data transfer by using the simple netcat and send it directly to port 9100 of the printer using cat testpg.ps | netcat 134.252.41.39 9100 For example to test plain TCP data transfer with two Linux machines run on the recipient machine netcat -l -p 9100 >/tmp/received and on the sender machine time cat testpg.ps | netcat IP_of_recipient 9100 For me this takes real 0m0.061s user 0m0.012s sys 0m0.004s
Ftp-ing the Linux generated .ps files from a physically different Win2k box results in rapid data transfer and successful printing.
Either the "physically different" makes a difference (unstable network hardware on the Linux machine?) or Windows is known to work sometimes better in unstable (half broken) network environments.
how do I go about fixing this network communication problem?
I cannot help you here because I am no network expert. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/