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[drblock2]

I took the end to support for Windows XP on April 8 as a good reason to finally retire the Windows XP LAN that I installed twelve years ago.

I did a frugal install of Lucid 5.8.2.6 on the elderly server (Thinkpad R52) and everything worked almost out of the box - except printing.

After dancing the SAMBA and looking deeply into my CUPS for several hours, I found this thread, installed the pet, followed the easy directions on the box and scored instant success.

Thanks so much for your help!

[wimpy]

@rcrsn51 I have a brother printer attached to a puppy. It will print as a local printer via cups (you kindly made me a pet for the printer some time ago). I've set up its IP as static. If I try to print through p910nd I get nothing. I also get nothing when trying to print through the network from another linux pc.
I'd be grateful for any help or advice.

[rcrsn51]

Do you have a firewall running on either machine? To be absolutely sure, install Peasy Firewall Monitor.

Then describe step-by-step what you have done on each machine.

What Puppy is this?

On the server machine run the command: ps
Can you see the p910nd server running?

[wimpy]

Thanks for the reply. Downloaded and installed the firewall monitor on both machines, which reports that no firewall is installed on either. Running Lucid 5.2.8 on both PCs (haven't got round to the Windows machines yet). I just followed the steps as laid out at the beginning of this thread. After installing p910nd I ran p910nd-start to get the daemon going.
The PC with the Brother printer hangs and does nothing when I try to print a test page. The job appears in the list and can be cancelled. The 2nd PC seemed to install the printer OK as set out in this thread but the test page also just hangs and nothing goes through (nothing appears on PC1's job list although the job appears on PC2's list). I've set the access rights on PC1 to allow "anonymous" to print, which is how the owners appear in the job lists. I get the feeling that PC2 is treating it as a local printer?
I've also set the brother printer up as a separate local printer on PC1 and it prints the test page OK.

[rcrsn51]

[wimpy]

There seem to be 2 entries for p910nd on the server machine. Should I kill one?

[rcrsn51]

Reboot and run p910nd-start again.

[wimpy]

There is one line from ps

[rcrsn51]

I tested it in Lupu 528 with an HP Deskjet and it worked fine. It may be that your Brother printer needs a more direct connection to the client.

[wimpy]

OK. I'll restore Windows on PC1 and and use its network printing,
Thanks for your help.

[rcrsn51]

Have you tried CUPS shared printing?

[wimpy]

Yes. That didn't work either. I'm sure it's just down to my inexperience. I will get this to work - eventually.
UPDATE Hooray. I managed to print a test page through Lubuntu to Lubuntu; I chose a "Windows printer with samba", so at least the link and the samba bit works. I'll keep reading and experimenting.

[rcrsn51]

Here is something to test. Start the p910nd server. On the client machine, run PeasyPort and scan the server for Port 9100.

[wimpy]

PeasyPort found the server and the port, so I deleted the Cups 9100 printer and re-installed . It works fine.
I can't say how grateful I am for all your help. At last, I can get rid of Windows on these old machines.

[rcrsn51]

Excellent. I was pretty sure that this would work with a Brother printer.