printing woes redhat 6.2

[Roman, James (J.D.)]

I've also had the same issue, but ended up using CUPS instead.  I chose this
primarily because I needed to get driver for an HP Plotter (which
unfortunately I had to pay for).  All in all the solution has been pretty
stable.  I think the root of the problem may have to do with other devices
printing to the LPD service on the Jetdirect card.  I don't think the LPD
code reacts well when it is not the sole source of print jobs submitted to
the JetDirect card.  (I don't know if this is actually a Red Hat issue or an
LPD issue.)  I also had some similar experience when some one stole the IP
that was assigned to the printer and decided to use it for their PC. I used
a sniffer to find out that the hardware address of the device that was
receiving the requests was not the same as the printer's HW address. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg [mailto:glawler at westmont.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 4:18 PM
To: samba-ntdom at samba.org
Subject: printing woes redhat 6.2


ok, one last problem in my migration to samba from nt....

i added all the jet direct printers (by ip) and i was successfully able
to print a test page to the first few i added and then, BAM, no more!

now all the printers show up as "Paused" in windows.
i have rebooted the server, restarted lpd countless times etc...

the message i get from the linux box itself is 
lpr: connect: Connection refused
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.

i have seen many posts on this but no solid or successful solution.

thanks again
greg

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