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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 07:55 AM

Gentle People:

I just successfully installed a new DLink DP-300U
Print Server, and I am able to print successfully from
my Windows 2K systems to both of my HP Printers.

The problem is that I cannot seem to print from
either my Solaris 8.0 or RH Systems. The DLink manual
dose discuss printing from Solaris so I assume it is
possible! I have already reviewed my Solaris Books
on the issue and found nothing besides the expected
Solaris Printer configuration info, which doesn't seem
to work.

What am I missing?

Dose MS use a different protocol to talk to network
printers than Solaris? (Probably?)

If yes can Solaris be configured to use the MS Protocol
to talk to the DLink Print Server?

Thanks for the help.
Thomas Dineen

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 07:55 AM

In article <hribd.3455$gy1.3136@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink. net>,
Thomas Dineen <tdineen@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> Gentle People:
>
> I just successfully installed a new DLink DP-300U
> Print Server, and I am able to print successfully from
> my Windows 2K systems to both of my HP Printers.
>
> The problem is that I cannot seem to print from
> either my Solaris 8.0 or RH Systems. The DLink manual
> dose discuss printing from Solaris so I assume it is
> possible! I have already reviewed my Solaris Books
> on the issue and found nothing besides the expected
> Solaris Printer configuration info, which doesn't seem
> to work.
>
> What am I missing?

There are several printer protocols used in unix.
There's the SystemV one, which I don't think anything much
uses. There's the BSD lpd protocol which is quite common.
There's also the HP method which IIRC just dumps the data
out on port 9100 (or something like that). I probably got
some details wrong as it is somewhere around 8 years ago
since I last played in this area.

> Dose MS use a different protocol to talk to network
> printers than Solaris? (Probably?)

Of course;-)

> If yes can Solaris be configured to use the MS Protocol
> to talk to the DLink Print Server?

I did once knock up a shell script or printer back end (can't
recall which now) which used smbclient (from Samba) to print
to a Windows 95 system's printer, so it is possible. Don't
ask me to remember the details -- that was also 8 years ago.

--
Andrew Gabriel
Consultant Software Engineer

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 07:56 AM

Thomas Dineen <tdineen@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
> The problem is that I cannot seem to print from
>either my Solaris 8.0 or RH Systems. The DLink manual
>dose discuss printing from Solaris so I assume it is
>possible! I have already reviewed my Solaris Books
>on the issue and found nothing besides the expected
>Solaris Printer configuration info, which doesn't seem
>to work.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Dose MS use a different protocol to talk to network
>printers than Solaris? (Probably?)
>

According to the setup FAQs at the Dlink website, it appears
they have you using the Windows LPR client to submit print
jobs to the Dlink. That would mean Windows is NOT using a
different protocol.

The FAQs are unclear about the Solaris configuration, but
one of them appears to say the remote printer configuration
works, with a remote printer queue name of "lp". In Solaris,
that would be:

lpadmin -p solaris-printer -s ip-address\!lp

where "solaris-printer" is the name you want to use for the
printer on your Solaris machine, and "ip-address" is the
Dlink's IP address (or hostname, if you gave it one).

-Greg
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