From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 14 19:22:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC94155EE for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:22:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA52776; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:22:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:22:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: marc rassbach Cc: pedro@qui.uc.pt, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Print Server Problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, marc rassbach wrote: > I've beaten my head against this one in the past. The below site helped > me solve it. > > www.deja.com has had many posters to newsgroups asking about it over the > years. Always a good source to look for an answer to a question. > (as this is not a FreeBSD issue per-say, hunting about for the words > JetDirect and ex3 will get you the data you sought.) > > > The other 2 ports are 9101 and 9102 on a direct telnet (as memory serves) > > So you need a print driver that can establish a telnet session to the box > and push your data out to thoes ports. > > The solution I used in the past (and now) is LPRng. You can find this in > the extensive ports library. > > You could also just get the ifhp part of LPRng and use that. The DOCS for > LPRng go into this filter. > (And I just looked because I didn't remember the telnet address) > Or just print to "remote printer" [RAW|TEXT][1|2|3]. i.e.: :rm=hpjd3.yoursite.net:rp=RAW3: Will print to the third parallel port in RAW mode. And the 910[0|1|2] ports are not "telnet" ports. They simply take raw input and feed it to the parallel port. I've used the stock printing services with the first method I mentioned, and LPRng with both methods. Both work just fine. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message