IP printing to Jetdirect boxes

[Robert Steinmetz]

David Heritage wrote:

> All,
>
> Hey hey, am new so if this is way basic, flame on. ;-)  I have a Dell
> Poweredge 2300 running RedHat 6.0 and whatever versions of samba and
> such that are part of that distribution.  Samb 'works' from the
> standpoint of file sharing and printing in a sense.  The issue is that
> the printer is an HP Laserjet 4 connected via an external HP Jetdirect
> box running IP.  The only connection to this box is made via remote lpr
> from my linux box.  I then have that q 'lp0' shared via samba.  I was
> expecting to have print jobs spooled off of my workstations so their
> overhead would be smaller when printing large jobs.  That has not
> happened.  The machines act as if they are just sending info through
> the linux server rt now.  They get very sluggish and come back to
> normal after the jobs finishes on the printer.  At one time they were
> all connected to the printer via a share on another win9x box and they
> 'worked' (as well as any MS product can) as I would expect.  Any ideas?
>  Do I need a newer dist.?  I can attach config info for the printer on
> linux if necesary, but I do not have any issues with it 'printing' just
> spooling/ performance.
>
> Dave Heritage
> dave at udp.net
>
> PGP Public Key Fingerprint: B028 8B5D E5ED 16B1  228B A93B A743 352A

Why don't you use Hp's software on all of the workstations and take your
server out of the loop?


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Robert Steinmetz, AIA
Principal
Steinmetz & Associates