On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 09:19, mike wrote: > This was posted to gnome-list. I have forwarded it here because it may > be a common problem > > -----Forwarded Message----- > > From: Tan S.E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Gnome printing problem, please help. > Date: 19 Aug 2002 21:29:30 -0700 > > Dear Ninji, > > I have just installed 35 computers, all in my own office. > > Previously was Win2000, since having the RedHat linux 7.2 pro, I decided to > migrate everything to linux/gnome after 1 week's research. > > The only problem I face now is: > > Printing. > > I only have 6 HP Laser printer ranged from 5L to 1100. Share printing is a > important. > > The application used: abiword 0.99.5. > > The actual situation: > When other users send for printing, it printed nicely at the beginning, but > after a while, the printer blinks and stop printing. I got to go into > Printer Configuration section to restart lpd for it to continue. I cannot > find anything about the print queue so that I can delete the documents. When > I am not around, I ask the users to reboot the printer-attached computer and > it prints again, but just for few pages, than stop. > > Please help me solving this problem. I have been trying for the past 72 > hours without any sleep.
The first question that comes to my mind is do you have each machine talking directly to the printer or each printer's queue on one box or what? for instance, I have 6 machines sharing an hp5si in my office, a mixture of windows flavors and linux boxes. I setup my primary file server, (the one with a bunch of ram dual processors and a scsi array) to act as the print server even though the printer is attached to the lan via a jetdirect card and can be accessed directly. At least with this setup there is only one box sending print jobs to the printer, one print queue to look at, and you don't have to worry about the printer resources being overtaxed. I am unfamillier with the various printers you have but some additional configuration information might help someone else help you. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
