Printer connection prob's with lpr and tcp/ip - ethernet printers

[CCS8DENI]

Have a curious issue that has been dogging me for a few weeks.

Have about 6-7 2000 boxes running to a Xerox document centre or they can also select a networked Lexmark Optra. These were set up using the TCP/IP port feature in the printer setup wizard.

All of a sudden half the machines stopped printing and we were advised to change from the TCP/IP port connection and install other file and print services then use an LPR port instead.

Worked in all but one case, still going sparse trying to find a consitent reason for the problem.

Seems to be no network communication with either printer from this box but all other LAN and WAN activity is fine.

SP3 is installed.

Regards

A
Andrew
andrew.mcmillan@det.nsw.edu.au

Technology Adviser
Dept. of Education and Training
Deniliquin District
New South Wales
Australia

 

[pbxman]

This may be just a guess with your setup, but how many connections are you using to this print share? If the machine sharing the printer is not a Wondows server - keep in mind it's only meant to have a maximum of 10 network connections at a time to it's shared resources. Any more than that - and you need an NT or Win2K Server.

Just a thought pbxman
Systems Administrator

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[CCS8DENI]

This is a straight network connection, no sharing involved. We are running a Novell server for file sharing, security etc.

Thanks for the response pbxman

A
Andrew
andrew.mcmillan@det.nsw.edu.au

Technology Adviser
Dept. of Education and Training
Deniliquin District
New South Wales
Australia