Hi
all,
I have just
installed RH 9.0 on one of my office PCs. Finally, after 5 years of
tinkering with Linux on my network, I have some time to experiment with printing
to network printers. I have
Our network consists
of two "halves". The first is your common, run-of-the-mill Windows domain;
one of the MS pc's has an HP OfficeJet G85. I installed Samba (or more
specifically, I had the RH 9.0 installer install samba for me); as a result (I
think), I can print without problem to the OfficeJet.
The other "half" of
my network is a legacy Novell 3ish server with a networked print queue for an HP
Laserjet IIISi. I've installed ipxtools and ncpfs, and can talk to, log
into, and browse the Novell server. I can also print to the Laserjet III
Si, but with an interesting (albeit annoying) problem; the top third of the page
is printed material as expected, the middle third is blank, and the bottom third
is printed material which picks up right where the printing at the top of the
page stopped. The cutoff point appears to be line 26. Lines 1-25
print at the top of the page, then line 26 starts to print - then a big blank
space of about 25 lines - then line 26 continues to print; by "starts to print",
I mean that I can see the tops of each of line 26's taller letters at the
top portion of the page, and the rest of the letters on line 26 appear toward
the bottom of the page.
I am assuming that,
since I can print to the OfficeJet on the Microsoft network with no problems,
that the problem lies with either
(a) ncpfs and/or
ipxtools
(b) the Laserjet
IIISi driver
I'd much rather
print to the LaserJet since its ink is MUCH cheaper.
Unfortunately for
me, this is a small company, and we don't have a true network administrator; as
the only engineer and the only one with a smattering (which means not much in my
case) of knowledge about Novell and Windows, I got elected to wear the Network
Administrator hat. So, I have no "higher power" to turn to
here...
Has anyone else run
into a similar issue? Can anyone point me in the right
direction?
Thanks and
Best Regards,
Jason Murray
