Remote Printer

[jenica]

Hi All,

I have an Okidata 391 dot matrix printer connected to a D-Link pocket print server to allow it to have an IP address. I then went into SCOADMIN (Unixware 7.1.1) to add a remote printer, I named it and selected the oki390 driver, and gave it the IP address and it created a print queue and the printer becamed enabled. But when I try to send any print job to it, the printer goes into disabled mode and I get this error:

NAK'd by remote lpd: waiting auto retry

It prints from Windows just fine.

Thanks!
Jenica

 

[pmcmicha]

NAK'd or NAK'ed means Not Acknowledged.

Are your routes setup correctly? Is the IP in use by another device on the network? How about your subnet mask? Have you rebooted your server?

While I don't use the device above, I do use a jet direct and have run into these issues before. But I just initialize the jet direct and let it pickup an IP address from DHCP as opposed to assigning it one.

 

[jenica]

Thanks Pmcmicha,

I've verified the things you suggested. No luck so far, but I think we may have a work around. Thanks very much for your reply.

Jenica

 

[josel]

When I use remote printers, usually connected to PrintServers (JetDirect and the likes), all I have to do is setup the printer server itself and make sure it is accessible through the network (I give it a unique IP).

I then add an entry in both (/etc/hosts and /etc/printcap). My /etc/printcap entry looks like this

lp17: :lp=:rm=remlpd:rp=lp17:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/lp17


fernlpd is the host name as listed in my /etc/hosts file. Within the /etc/hosts file, as you know, the assigned IP is listed.

Hope this helps!


Jose Lerebours


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