Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:27:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "M.C Wong" <mcwong@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5R Printing questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980123132552.8161x-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980122004113.14062.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, M.C Wong wrote: > Hi, > > This is a dump question which I need help with after reading through > the handbook. > > In our network, we have an NT server (sigh ...) that serves as the > print server for 3 printers: HP5Si, HP4MP, HP1600C and all of the > printers have NIC and IP address. > > I want to set up my FreeBSD 2.2.5R to print to those printers. > Preferably I would want to use the NT as a remote print server and > specify it in printcap as :rm. Tried that but I always get this > message: > > waiting for nt.domain to come up > > where nt.domain is the hostname of the NT. Are those printers served by LPD or by Windows Networking? If they're the latter you need either samba or rumba. > Alternativelty, I can use netprint (Perl script) to print directly to > port 515 of those printers. But, I am concerned with interfering the > spooling mechanism currently managed by the NT server. I wonder if I > simply use netprint, would I accidentally interfere with job that is > sent for printing by the NT server ?? It depends on how the NT server sends the requests. The network cards (I forgot the name of them!) only accept one job at a time and will just refuse the connection if they are busy. > Also, does anyone know of capability of those printers if we can probe > them for status so that if the printer is currently busy, then the > script would hold back a while and retry later, which means I would > have to modify netprint to do that. Just modify netprint to retry on connection refused's. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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