Network printer setup, Vol 54, Issue 153

[Vincent Onelli]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 18:16 -0400, Vincent Onelli wrote:
> >    9. Re: network printer setup, Vol 54, Issue 130 (Aaron Konstam)
> >   13. Re: network printer setup, Vol 54, Issue 130 (Mikkel L. Ellertson)
> >   14. Re: network printer setup, Vol 54, Issue 130 (Mikkel L. Ellertson)
> > 
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > Message: 4
> > > > Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:18:31 -0500
> > > > From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: Network printer setup,
> > > > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > > Message-ID: <48A73617.4030507 at infinity-ltd.com>
> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> > > > 
> > > > Vincent Onelli wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there some body that can help me to setup a printer? I am new on
> > > > > Linux, and most of the entry required I do not know what to enter in.
> > > > > I had send similar message before but I did not get any answer. I
> > > > > understand your have a large number of messages to get to, but please
> > > > > try to understand our new user problem, without your help we could not
> > > > > survive very long with Linux, I have several friends that tried Linux
> > > > > for a short period of time and then abandon it. I am the stubborn one,
> > > > > but now I am stuck,I need to use this printer it is the only one that I
> > > > > have to print on paper 17x22. 
> > > > > I very much appreciate if some one can give me a detailed guideline on
> > > > > what to enter on various setup phase, one answer I received pointed me
> > > > > to http://localhost:631 but then what I enter to various steps? I try to
> > > > > enter some thing but Icould not get pass the verification stage the user
> > > > > or the password were not accepted, I assume that it want the root PW but
> > > > > I also tried the user PW, no luck.
> > > > > Some info on my system:
> > > > >      Dell Dimension 8300.   
> > > > >      Netgear router WGR614v6
> > > > >      Printer Server Netgear PS101
> > > > >      Printer Epson Stylus Color 1520
> > > > >  It work fine with windows and these are the setting as listed on the
> > > > >  Router:     Printer Server Netgear PS101. Lan manager printer port
> > > > > PSE6D76B
> > > > >                              Printer server port    LPT1:PSE6D76B
> > > > >                              Server Name             PSE6D76B
> > > > >                              IP Address              192.168.1.3
> > > > >  
> > > > > Epson Setup:                 Name                    Epson1520
> > > > >                              Hostname                192.168.1.3
> > > > >                              Queue                   PSE6D76B
> > > > >  
> > > > > Thank you in advance
> > > > >  Vinny
> > > > > 
> > > > Ok - the first thing is that the user and password it is asking for
> > > > defaults to root and root's password. Normal users login and
> > > > password do not work unless they are added.
> > > > 
> > > > >From there, you want the Administration tab. From there you can
> > > > click on the Find New Printers. If the printserver supports IPP,
> > > > then you can have CUPS can find it for you. It will do most of the
> > > > setup for you.
> > > > 
> > > > If CUPS does not find the printer, you will have to use Add New
> > > > Printer. You then will want to pick LPD/LPR Host or Printer.
> > > > 
> > > Under this selection LPD/LPR I only find 2 lines Host and Queue on these
> > > I try several combination 
> > > 1. Host:	"192.168.1.3"
> > >    Queue:	"PSE6D76B"
> > > 2. Host:	"localhost"
> > >    Queue:	"192.168.1.3"
> > > did not work.
> > >  
> > > I also try the Internet printing protocol, here I also found the same 2
> > > line to fill, the third line URI indicate the combination of the two
> > > lines so I entered "192.168.1.3" for the host and "PSE6D76B" for Queue 
> > > filled in this way the URI line looks the closest to your suggestion
> > > URI: ipp://192.168.1.3/PSE6D76tB. But it did not work.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > The next step is to enter "lpd://192.168.1.3/PSE6D76B" at the Device
> > > > URI: prompt. From there it is just a matter of selecting your
> > > > printer from the menu.
> > > > 
> > > > As the last step, you will have to enter root as the user name and
> > > > root's password for the password to save the new printer.
> > > > 
> > > > Mikkel
> > > > -- 
I can see now why I was not find the same uri that you were pointing to
I was using System -> administration -> printing instead of
Localhost:631, because when I did try I could never get past the user &
PW, but the other way I have no problem the PW is OK. since going from
the menu it only ask for PW and going from localhost:631 ask for user &
PW, I suspect that I am entering a wrong user name. Is there way to find
out the correct user name?
> > > > 
> > 
> > In my experience the queue name is the same as the name of the printer. 
> > Where did you get the queue name: PSE6D76B ?
> PSE6D76B came from the printer server when was installed in windows
It is also in the printer server label  

> > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net