LPD to network attached Brother HL-1270N

[thedaver]

I'm trying to setup my business Win XP laptop to print to my home printer via my WLAN. The printer is a network attached HL1270N from Brother, a mono laserjet.

I tried using Brother's Win drivers to print directly but the drivers messed up my WinXP laptop - a big no-no to screw up the Company computer.

So I'm considering how I can reach the LPD running on one of my RH9 linux boxes - the box is already running LPD/Cups and can print successfully to the networked printer.

Is this going to require Samba? I don't run any domain for Win authentication. I'm wondering if I can just do something on WinXP to make a networkwork printer on a "port" and have that port spew print stream to the LPD which passes it on to the printer itself.

All help appreciated!
Dave.

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[lgarner]

That's exactly what you do. Set up a local port, type "Standard TCP/IP", and select "LPD" instead of "RAW". But, if the printer is already network-attached you can bypass Linux and print to it directly, also. It's probably supporting LPD. If Brother's drivers mess up your computer you can try a more generic one.

No authentication needed for LPR/LPD.

 

[thedaver]

lgarner, that's good news, never done this before and am not quite sure what I was asking for.

Q: What do I need to define on the LPD setup on linux to make sure that it's going to accept "external" print jobs over the network?

Anecdotal Blather:
Brother has a pretty hinky method of sending "network" print traffic to their network printers which requires an extra "port driver" be created on WinXP and then you print to the "local" device on that port. It's kind of like defining a fake LPT which happens to spew data out to the ethernet. Obviously that sort of architecture doesn't always settle well, and my WinXP barfed bad on it.

Thanks again,
Dave.

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[lgarner]

OK, if your laptop can't set up standard Unix printing, you have a different problem. You can use samba to get around it, printing to Linux via samba and then from Linux to the printer via LPR.

I have a printer set up in smb.conf like so:
[pr3152]
comment = Compliance Printer
path = /var/tmp
read only = No
create mask = 0600
printable = Yes
printer name = pr3152
use client driver = Yes
oplocks = No
share modes = No


I use cups, so I set up the actual printer via the web interface. The pertinent part of printers.conf ends up as:
<DefaultPrinter pr3152>
Info Compliance Printer
Location BH 9665 3FL Compliance
DeviceURI lpd://x.x.x.x/raw1
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>

Hope this helps. Mainly, get the Linux system printing and then worry about the workstation.