help in solaris 7 network printing

[pheo...@gmail.com]

hello,
I'm having trouble printing on solaris 7 x86.
there are 2 offices connected via VPN. server is at main site,
printer is at remote site.

I can print on remote site printer via windows just fine.
Solaris is a head-ache!! it just won't work.

I have an okidata dot-matrix printer. it's setup on system as
ibmpro80.
server has same printer attached to it via parallel cable.

so, i haven't setup the network printer. the software vendor has been
trying this but I've lost patience and confidence with these people.

it's setup as printer10. How can i verify the settings they've used
for this?

printer is installed with a dlink print server (printer has no network
card so print server is attached to parallel port). IP address is
192.168.20.200.

I'm used to working with the solaris advanced printer manager but
vendor that setup this system didn't install it. I not familiar with
command line method of setting up printer. I want to confirm all
settings for this printer (queue name, IP address, what driver is
setup, etc).

Thank you for any advice,

Oskar

[Greg Andrews]

Do you have other Solaris machines that can successfully print to
the remote printer? (Doesn't matter if they're at your main site
or at the remote site)

Also, does the printer support Postscript, or just ordinary text?

-Greg
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[pheo...@gmail.com]

HI Greg,
there are no other solaris boxes. this is the only box.
printer is dotmatrix okidata printer. it supports postscript and
plain text too.
I did an lpstat and I saw the queue settings
(printerIPaddress:que_name).
it looks correct. I also notice that when I send a print job the
print queue is blank.
There are no errors or stuck print jobs. It looks like print job gets
sent to printer but no print!!

This is really odd.

thanks,

Oskar

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Try telnet to the IP address and port of the printer. Type "print
me<ctrl-L>" (don't type the quotes). If everything is working, the
printer should print "print me" and eject the page. If it doesn't work,
something is wrong with the network connection to the printer. If it
does work but "lp" does not you've screwed up the configuration somehow.

You might consider upgrading to the current version of Solaris; people
who remember Solaris 7 are probably in short supply! I think it was
released, or escaped ;-) in the mid 1990s. Printing is still a
nightmare up through Solaris 9.

S10 made some long overdue reforms! You can now pick your printer off a
list by manufacturer and model, tell the system how it's connected
(parallel port, serial port, USB, or network) and you're done!

[ThanksButNo]

On Jun 30, 8:45 am, "pheoni...@gmail.com" <pheoni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm used to working with the solaris advanced printer manager but
> vendor that setup this system didn't install it.

Get it and install it. Work in familiar territory.

\:-\

[ThanksButNo]

On Jun 30, 8:45 am, "pheoni...@gmail.com" <pheoni...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Thank you for any advice,
>
> Oskar

Bad news, Oskar:

According to this:
http://support.dlink.com/emulators/dpr1260/setup_prnwiz.html

D-Link Print Server *only* supports Windows.

There may be a way to get it to work with other OS's, if and
only if you can look it up in the device's documentation,
which I don't see readily available online (meaning, I didn't
look very hard).

One solution might be to install Samba on the Solaris box.
It can emulate Windows network access and might therefore
let you talk to a device that is also emulating Windows
network access.

Google for "samba solaris 7". It's available for free.
It can be a little tricky to configure, but it generally
works pretty well to let you mix Windows and Unixes on the
same network and share stuff.

\:-\

[Greg Andrews]

ThanksButNo <no.no....@gmail.com> writes:
>
>Bad news, Oskar:
>
>According to this:
>http://support.dlink.com/emulators/dpr1260/setup_prnwiz.html
>
>D-Link Print Server *only* supports Windows.
>

That's the 1260, which does not have a parallel port.
Since Oskar said his printer is connected to the dlink
via the parallel port, he can't be using a 1260.

He's using either the DP300U or the DP301P+, which do
support the LPR printing protocol.

[pheo...@gmail.com]

On Jul 4, 2:15 am, g...@panix.com (Greg Andrews) wrote:

HI,
Greg is correct, it's model # DP301P+
I will try the test where I telnet to the print server and send the
'test me' command followed by 'control L'.
i have connected to the print server via telnet and I can see
everything on it. I didn't to a test print from there, but I can get
into it.

Thanks,

Oskar