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
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.
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:)
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:\