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@udp.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: B028 8B5D E5ED 16B1 228B A93B A743 352A
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@udp.net > > PGP Public Key Fingerprint: B028 8B5D E5ED 16B1 228B A93B A743 352AWhy don't you use Hp's software on all of the workstations and take your server out of the loop? -- Robert Steinmetz, AIA Principal Steinmetz & Associates
I have just run into a new and scary problem. On a Sparc fileserver running Solaris 2.6 one of the user file systems has suddenly began to start deleting all files. The 4 GB filesystem goes from 67% full to 2% in a matter of minutes. We can find no process running on the Sun to account for this. The filesystem is shared to Windows NT machines using Samba. I am at lose to explain it. We have restored the file system from tape once today and it has happened again. The only recent change is the replacement a different hard disk with a new larger one, all files were restored from a back up tape and it seemed to be working after the change. ANY suggestions for isolating the problem appreciated. -- Robert Steinmetz, AIA Principal Steinmetz & Associates
On 19 Nov 99, Robert Steinmetz had questions about Re: IP printing to Jetdirect boxes:> 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. > > Why don't you use Hp's software on all of the workstations and take your > server out of the loop?It sounds like he wants samba/linux spooling working, which is a cleaner solution, IMHO. I'm still running an older version of samba and RedHat (until the new hardware comes so I can upgrade everything), and our PC/LAN guy only believes in windoze solutions :( so our print server is a dedicated win95 box with 3 printers (an HPLJ4, HPLJ-III, and epson color). It only locks up every few days. However, I have samba printing enabled and I can redirect windoze print jobs through samba to the windoze box with the printers, and it works fine. The jobs leave the windoze box immediately, spool on the linux box, and print (unless the spooler on the windoze box has a brain-fart, then it's re-boot time). If it were up to me, I'd shoot the windoze print server and connect all the printers to a linux/samba box. The thing is, most of the JetDirect stuff (except the latest expensive printer models) can only handle a single connection at a time, plus they have no spool space (unless the printer has the hard disk option). Since windoze print spooling is notoriously unstable and problematic (at best), spooling to a linux/samba box is the best option. David: If your jobs are not spooling under linux, then you'll need to check/modify some of the samba and/or linux print settings. What print commands/settings is samba using? Does lpr work fine from linux? Are you using the stock RedHat print filters, or lprng, or something else? Where are the jobs being spooled, and is there enough disk space for large PS files? Check out the linux printing and printing-usage HOWTOs and do some testing. Post the results. Steve ****************************************************************** Stephen L Arnold http://www.rain.org/~sarnold #include <std_disclaimer.h> ******************************************************************
Hello Dave, Take at a look at your Jetdirect firmware level. You can find that out if you telnet to it's IP address. We use only internal Jetdirect servers (J2550 and J2552), and we had the same behavior you are describing. After upgrading to latest firmware (downloaded from HP's web site) the problem went away. HTH, Walter. -----Original Message----- From: David Heritage [mailto:dheritage@fireant.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 2:57 PM To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA Subject: IP printing to Jetdirect boxes 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@udp.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: B028 8B5D E5ED 16B1 228B A93B A743 352A