Re: lexmark Z65 on debian?
Hi, and tanks for replay.
On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Kent West wrote:
> ernst wrote:
>
> >Hi all
> >
> >I have just got a lexmark Z65 and now I can't print to it. I have search
> >the net for info, and some sites says the printer i linux compatibel,
> >others says just win\mac.
> >
> >The printer is installed on a windozeboz (as a network printer, it's
> >attached to the net directly), and has beed given the ip
> >x.x.x.x, but when I ping or nmap, I cant find it, but it still prints from
> >windoze? I'm confused :)
> >
> Er, I'm confused. Is it attached to the Windows machine, or is it
> directly attached to the network? Does it have a NIC in it or attached
> to it? How exactly did you give an IP address to it?
>
The printer has it's own nic, and I have attached the printer directly to
a switch. When I do the procedyre for printing out the "info
page"(directly from the printer,not over network) I get
the MAC addr. and IP addr. It has also been given the IP for the correct
nettwork. I need to set a static ip, and from the dhcp it's an reserved IP
for the printer.
> I suspect it's connected to the Windows box via a parallel or USB cable.
> In this situation, you can't print from the Linux box directly to the
> printer. Instead, you print from the Linux box to the Windows box which
> then prints to the printer. In such a situation you have to get Samba
> involved, and I never could make such a setup work (albeit with real
> printers, not "host-controlled" printers) after several weeks of trying,
> but you might have better luck.
>
OK, the senario is that the printer is still attached to the net from it's
own nic, and from an windoze9x box I have also tried to share it and print
via the windoze box, with no luck.
The strange thing is how windoze commuticate withe the printer, even if I
know it got an IP, I cant Ping or nmap it! But I was able to use arp to
set an IP addr.
But with samba, you meed that I scould install the printer on debian, and
then use samba to share it with windoze, insted of the other way around? I
have never done samba and printing, bunt nothing is impossible:)
I must add that I can use either ip (with the printers own nic) or usb. I
have not tried to connect it to windoze or debian trough usb, I'we loocked
around for info but couldent find any thing helpful, so my hope was this
list:)
> On the other hand, if the printer actually has a NIC attached to it, it
> should work, but before chasing this path give us more info.
>
Yes, it scould be that easy, but no luck yet.
Here is my printcap file, and with this one I tried to print trough the
shared printer on a winobx with the ip x.x.x.16 to the printer "lexmark".
It gives me no error, but doesn't print.
lex|lexmark
:rm=192.168.2.16:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lexmark/:\
:rp=lexmark:\
That is in fact all the info I got so far.
>
>
> --
Thanks for help.
/ernst
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