RE: [Sheflug] Printing on a Novell Printer at Sheffield Univ.

["J.White" <Jan.White [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Subject: RE: [Sheflug] Printing on a Novell Printer
> From: Nicola Richmond <n.j.richmond [at] sheffield.ac.uk>
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Date: 14 May 2003 17:24:09 +0100
> Reply-To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> 
> Although I am not 100% sure, I think that the University does use Novell
> print queues because access to printers is restricted. For example,
> there are some printers in my dept. that can only be used by members of
> staff. All print queues are managed by the computing services. 
> 
> > Many HP laser printers have a LCD panel on the front. If the printer has
> > its own internal 
> > jetdirect card you should be able to print out a config page that tells
> > you what the IP 
> > address of the printer is. If you can manage to get the IP then you
> > should be able to print 
> > directly to the IP address by creating a printer queue using the IP as
> > the TCP printer port. 
> > (I know this works on SuSE with CUPS so it should work on RedHat)
> 
> I've printed out a "diagnostics page" on the HP2500CM that we have. The
> first line on the second page says
> 
> HP JETDIRECT        J4100A
> 
> Then lower down there's stuff about UNICAST and TOTAL packets received.
> A bit further down it has
> 
> MODE:        QUEUE SERVER
> NODE NAME:   INF_LJ2500_1
> SERVER NAME: YATEHOLME
> 
> Then almost at the end, there's the following line
> 
> TCP/IP STATUS:     DISABLED
> 
> Maybe this means that the printer can only be accessed through the queue
> server.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nicola.
> 

Dear Nicola,

The person you need to speak to in CICS is Ian Belton (23043 i.j.belton [at] shef)

Assuming this printer belongs to your dept and isn't actually somebody else's, 
CICS is only administering it for you and they disable all unnecessary services 
by default for security.  It's perfectly possible for Ian to enable the TCP/IP if 
he's requested to do so by the person who asked him to set it up in the first place.
This will be the same person who tells Ian the userID's of the people who are 
allowed to print to it - probably your dept computer rep or the guy who paid 
for the printer.

I know it's possible because we have one which has been thus enabled 
and we print to it happily from RedHat.  I set it up easily using good old printtool, 
which works fine for all my network printers so I've not yet had to deal with 
the famous CUPS.

If you need any help call me.

Cheers,   Jan White  (22741 jan.white [at] shef)


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