10.6 printing via 10.5 server

Hi all,
Trying to setup a print server as Apple Talk has been ditched.
Able to print fine from the sever.
When i try and print via a client the message i get is. On Hold (Authentication Required)
Can anyone help with this issue?
Thanks

Ok to add some more info. Not that i'm getting much help here.....
Our 3 replica servers seem to print no problems at all. So it leads me to believe that the Print Server (which is on the master) is setup correctly.
So it would point to an issue with joining the local machines to the Open Directory.
Someone here must have experienced this issue?

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Printing via 10.5 server speed issue

Hi,
I have at last managed to get the printer server running via 10.5.
However if i print a document via the server it takes ages (45 seconds) before it decides to print. If i print the doc directly to the IP of the printer it's instant.
Please could someone help?
Thanks
Darren

Ok to add some more info. Not that i'm getting much help here.....
Our 3 replica servers seem to print no problems at all. So it leads me to believe that the Print Server (which is on the master) is setup correctly.
So it would point to an issue with joining the local machines to the Open Directory.
Someone here must have experienced this issue?

10.4 to serial printer via 9.x server

Hi all,
I use my LaserWriter Select 300 on a beige G3 running 9.1, sometimes 9.2. I use this to print from my main system, which runs 10.4.11. I print to a PDF file, copy it over to the G3 and print using Acrobat 4.
Does anyone do similar and, if so, has anyone written a pair of folder action scripts to automate this? Such a script would sit on a "Print" folder one each system's desktop. Save print as a PDF to that folder, whose script connects to the server and copies the file to the G3 "Print" folder, whose script opens Acrobat and prints it.
Thanks

Peter,
Based on your post I see that you are trying to transfer files through and ethernet cable. I don't think this is possible, correct me if I'm wrong, with just a plain ethernet cable.
Try using a Cross-Over cable. It's easy to find. You can find it at your local electrionics store, such as Best Buy or CompUSA.
There is also another method besides tranferring with an ethernet cable. You can use CD's and DVD's, (DVDs work a lot better for space). This will take a lot longer with a bit more effort and time. But, you can get the job done.
Good luck.
Remember to mark as helpful or solve.
Benny

No printing via Bonjour from Windows

Windows PCs can't print via my Tiger server using Bonjour. The printers shared by the server are visible in the Bonjour add new printer wizard. When printing the jobs are sent from the Windows PCs without error messages. But nothing gets printed.
The same queues work fine from Macs.
Looked for the print server logs, but the only logs for the queues are for Appletalk, and they are empty. The server is set not to share any of the print queues via Appletalk.
Tried printing via SMB, but no luck there either.
Printing from Windows directly to the printers using Bonjour works.
Tested turning of the server firewall, but this did not help.
Any ideas waht could be wrong?

Since you can print directly to them from Windows via Bonjour I am wondering how you are sharing the printer from the server. My guess is that it is via 'Print & Fax' of System Preferences. If the printers support LPR, then I would suggest you configure the server printers this way. Go to Server Admin > Print > Settings and enable LPR and 'Show name in Bonjour'. This will give you more control over the printers.
If you have shared the printers this way and since SMB also fails, then I would ensure you haven't enabled print quotas for the queue. This can make jobs vanish.
Even if you are using 'Print & Fax' to share the printer, you still should be able to see the cups error log. In the Server Admin, select Print, then select Logs and then for the Show menu select error log. This is the same log for both methods of shared printers and this should give some clues as to why the Windows spool files are not printing.

Lion 10.7.5 cant connect to printer via Buffalo print server

Hi everyone,
I'm at my wits end with this one having spent over 20 hours on it.
I have a Macbook Air running Lion 10.7.5 and a Macbook running OSX 10.6.8. I have a Photosmart 8050 printer attached to a Buffalo Linkstation Live LS-CH1 running firmware 1.60 (the latest version for this model). The Linkstation has a printserver which is attached via USB to the printer, the Linkstation is attached to a wireless router, for amound other things, wireless printing.
The long and the short of my problem is, I can get the Macbook running 10.6.8 to print without a problem, works fantastic, but I can not get the Air running 10.7.5 to print through the print server even though the printers are installed the very same way on both machines. The error from the print que is "unable to connect to printer" even though it seems to connect successfully to the Linkstation, as in my setup a username and password must be entered to access the printer, even though a user is logged in to the file server. Not to get confused, I am 99% convinced the problem is with the Macbook Air running 10.7.5.
I installed the printers using the Windows method, Workgroup -> Linkstation -> Printer then selecting the HP 8000 series driver version 5.0.4. I have also tried every other install method available, however as I understand it, this is the recommended method for this print server setup.
I have checked the network setup, driver versions and even though it does not seem to cover my printer have GutenPrint 5.2.9 installed.
The printer does work when connected directly to USB however.
If anyone has any idea why I cant get the Macbook Air running 10.7.5 to print via the print server on the Linkstation when 10.6.8 works perfectly, then please HELP!
Thank you

Power Cycle
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Connect the router back to to the wall.
Power the router back on. Wait until all lights are lit properly. It will take a while.
Restart the computer.
Start up in Safe Mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455

Printing via Belkin Wireless Print Server

I am trying to setup my my mac so that it will print via my belkin wireless print server. I have been able to do this for my windows pc's but not with my mac.
Other threads on this forum have been able to get it working with other printers but I can't seem to make it work.
I'm using a HP Deskjet 6540 on a 802.11g network. The printer is connected to a Belkin Wireless Print Server (F1UP0001). I print when connected via USB but not via wireless. I've installed the HP drivers and the GIMP drivers but that hasnt worked. When I go to install the printer I choose IP Printer and give the ip address of the print server.
Any help would be much appreciated, if you need more infomation just ask.
Thank You,
mholmau

Your printer is a non-postscript printer and requires a CUPS driver in order to use the network printing protocols which are part of the CUPS system in OS X. Except for Brother, no manufacturer of non-postscript printers is providing CUPS drivers. The printer model doesn't show up because the OS X driver only works for USB. Apple tried to get around this by including open source Gimp-Print (CUPS) drivers with OS X. But very few HPs are supported. You should try HP Deskjet 900 Series, Gimp-Print driver to see if it "might" work.
For PPC Macs, there is another open source driver set that supports most HPs, including yours:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/
But, these aren't Universal binaries, so they don't work on Intel Macs. The source code is available, and I think it will readily compile on your Mac, but I don't have an Intel Mac to try that on.
Next issue - print server setup. We don't have auto-setup software, so we have to read the manual closely and decide which protocol to use. If it's IPP (=internet printing protocol, not IP printing) or LPR/LPD, you need to find the print server's queue name (sometimes called port name), and enter that in Add printer dialog near IP address.
There are other ways to do network printing. The Airport Express print server from Apple allows you to use the USB driver because it uses Airport-Bonjour software to redirect USB output, instead of using standard protocols.
Hope this helps.

Wireless Network Printing via HH2 to a Print Serve...

My HomeHub 2 runs with my with my desktop PC under Win XP Pro SP3 with an HP Photosmart
D5160 .   I decided to try and provide a simple home wireless network using a TP-Link WPS510U
wireless print server. My HH2 is Ethernet connected to the desktop and the router provides the
wireless link to the print server.
The D5160 provides bidirectional communication when installed and using a direct USB cable
connection to the desktop PC and everything works as expected.
Using the print server I just get basic printing with no feedback to the PC. In fact, using the HP Utility Solution Centre and checking Settings /Status I am told the D5160 is disconnected!!
Is it possible to make this wireless link work correctly with two-way communication?
Am I missing something in the set-up that doesn't allow the bidirectional wireless communication via router plus server, but does when the printer has its own internal wireless circuits?
If I have instead an self-contained wireless printer will this provide the full two-way communcation via the router?
Looking at Control Panel/Printers and Faxes/HP Photosmart D5160 and clicking on Ports tab I have in the list of 14 ports (LPT, COM, FILE, USB001, etc) plus
DOT4_001    HP Photosmart D5160 Printer
IP_192.168.1.10-2    Standard TCP/IP Port    HP Photosmart D5160
This last one is ticked and the Enable Bidirectional Support box is also ticked.
I can also go 'Run/cmd/DOS window' and 'ping 192.168.1.10' and get the replies from the printer.
Thanks in anticipation of any advice.
Rodney Fry
G3NDI

Wireless will not be able to provide a full bi-directional interface, as its not designed to do that. Printer status relies on a physical hardware connection over a USB or parallel port (old printers), to allow the printer to be interrogated and its status returned.
Also, if you use a printer plugged into the USB port of the HH2, you will get the same problem.
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Printing to a printer via a print server

Hi all,
I have a slight problem with printing from an application that I have written. The application does print correctly if the printer is connected to the PC locally, however the printer has recently become attached to a print server and since then I have been unsuccessful in printing via my application.
When I try to print, the print dialog appears with the default printer being the networked printer; however when I click 'Okay' to printer, the application locks up and nothing is ever printer.
I can view the properties of the printer from 'Windows' and can printer a test page, also using Office prints fine, so its not a incorrectly configured printer thats the problem. I have also tried printing with the firewall off, but to no avail.
Heres the code that I use for printing, although I can not see anything wrong with it.
private void printData() throws DVDDatabaseException, PrinterException {
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Greg,
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I added another printer using LDP protocol, specified the address as 192.168.1.100, Identified the que as "LPT", then, on a hunch, clicked the "More Printers" button. The dialog box defaults to AppleTalk in the Local AppleTalk Zone and after a brief moment the "Name" of the printer appeared as SCF** (Hex) which, lo and behold, is the name of the PPSX1 as printed on the bottom of the device! At this point I selected the NEC's PostScript print driver and VOILA! Super duper 1200 DPI PostScript output, just like the old days!
Man...whew! Thanks again. Your Guru status is well-deserved.
Regards,
Bill

Just installed the latest Canon printer software update (V 3.2) from the App store. Canon Pixma MX850 will not print. Dialog says job stopped at the server - no pages found. Utilities, print test page works. Printing via Airport.

Just installed the latest Canon printer software update (V 3.2) suggested by the App store in effort to get printer working after OS update. Canon Pixma MX850 will not print. Dialog says job stopped at the server - no pages found. Utilities, print test page works. Attempting to print via Airport from a MacBook Pro. Also from a Mac Pro via ethernet. Both worked before updating to Yosemite. Canon Pro 9000 Mk 2 works via USB. Tried installing driver 10.84 from OS 10.9 as suggested by PAHU; no luck.

The "stopped at server - no pages found" message would suggest an image with the print file that is created by the printer driver on the MacBook Pro. But if the Mac Pro is getting the same message then that is unusual.
To rule out a couple of causes I would try connecting the MacBook Pro directly to the MX850 by USB cable. This action should result in a new printer for the USB connection being created automatically. If not then you may need to manually create it as you won't be able to use the existing printer that exists for the network connection. With the new printer created see if this will let you print without error.
If this USB connected printer also fails with the same message then try a reset of the printing system. Note that this action will also remove the Pro 9000 from Printers & Scanners so you will have to add it and the MX850 again.

Can't connect to printer via usb print server

So I've tried to connect to an EPSON stylus printer from my iMac via a print server with no success.
Here's some info to help focus the questions/help:
iMac running Mavericks, Epson SP R200 printer, Belkin Play router, Toshiba Satellite laptop, Level1 USB print server
Win8.1 laptop prints via print server just fineso IP, port, firewall issues on router/print server side are ruled out.
I have the fire wall off on the iMac
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Printing via Network USB print server suddenly not working any more

I have always been able to print with my USB
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This server is connected to my router and the rest of my in-home Mac network by means of an ethernet port, and it has four USB device ports, 1 each for my various printers and a flatbed scanner. It worked well under OS 10.6 until just now.
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When I bypass the print server - and connect the same
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It suits my setup to be able to continue printing via the print server, however, and I am wondering what sort of new issue could now begin fooling the MAC OS into thinking printers are not connected when it has had no trouble with the same print server and exactly the same physical connections previously ?
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Network printing/Windows printing only works with a driver that was meant for network printing. To use the OS X built-in CUPS network choices, you need a CUPS driver. For postscript printers, it's not an issue, because postscript is the native output of OS X, and can easily be routed to the various CUPS choices in Printer Setup.
Non-postscript printers are Very Different. Except for Brother, no manufacturer has provided CUPS drivers. Instead, what you get are Carbonized, OS9 legacy drivers, that have the comm protocol written into the driver (mostly USB). They can only print via local connection.
Here are the sources of CUPS drivers I know of:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1537
http://www.printfab.net
http://www.easysw.com/printpro/
Then, after you have the driver, to setup for the print server you need to carefully read the manual to decide which protocol(s) are supported and then enter the right info into Printer Setup. The IPP and LPD protocols both require a device-specific queue name (also called port name), which should be in the manual. HP Jetdirect protocol doesn't use queue name. Common queue names are L1, lp, P1 etc. (If you know for sure it's LPT1 and LPT2, that good!) If the manual is no help, you can find the info in Windows printer properties > Ports > select port > Configure port.
Good luck.

Can't ping or get printer web page or print via hostname

Ok, this has me stupped on my iMac running Mavericks. I just added my Kyocera printer as an IP printer but used the host name instead of an IP address, sounds simple so far.
Before doing this, I change the default host name in the Kyocera printer to "Kyocera" (without quotations). Add printer found the device and came up with the correct PPD for the model number and all was good at this point. I sent a printer test page which again worked fine.
I then opened Safari and entered the printers IP address to make sure I could bring up the configuration web page for the device and this indeed works fine, at this point I retype the address in the address bar as Kyocera.local and again the page refreshed and came up fine, Yippee!! so I added it to Safari's Favourites Bar, all good!
Since then, I can still get to the devices home config page via the IP address, but it will no longer find the page via the save Kyocera.local link in the favorites bar or retyping it in the address bar.
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Does anyone know why printing via the host name and bringing up the printers config web page both worked for the first time but fails from there on in????
DNS settings were set to Auto from ISP, I also tried google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and even just adding the local bob router address in as an option but nothing works, but it did initially.
I install and repair printers for a living and have come across this when installing scan to FTP on a mac and rarely if ever can I get it to work scanning to FTP via the Mac's name for example, Jims-imac.local, just won't find it with or without the .local, but change it to the Mac's IP address and scan to FTP works great. Problem is that if the customer has their Mac getting IP address via DHCP, I have to advise the customer that if scan to FTP stops working, to check that the IP address on the Mac has not changed, and if it has, then change the scan to FTP settings on the scanner to the new IP address that the Mac has now been given from the DHCP server.
Not the best way to go about it. Why can't Mac's just find devices and devices find Mac's? Windows is so straight forward, what am I missing?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Damo

Hi,
First of all let me clarify your trial.
Where is your monitoring server?
Is it behind inside or outside interface (please share ip adress)?
From config it seems, it can be reach via outside interface. Then you have to make snmp check on outside interface, not on inside (cannot make a snmp/ping check on inside interface with request comming through outside inteface - it simply won't work).
From the first check of routing table, I would suggest:
delete : route outside MCCC_Outside 255.255.255.255 1.1.1.1 1 - doesn't make a sense route host address, when it's directly connected network (and more, route 1.1.1.2 to 1.1.1.1, when 1.1.1.1 is vlan2 interface)
change : route outside 172.31.0.0 255.255.0.0 192.168.1.1 1; route outside Domain 255.255.0.0 192.168.1.1 1 - you should consider route it to 1.1.1.2 (if this is your next hop address at WAN).
route outside VLAN10 255.255.255.0 MCCC_Outside 1 - why?
I would use default route to somewhere at 1.1.1.0/24 range - next hop (router).
HTH,
Pavel

Can no longer print via AirPort Extreme

I am unable to print via my AirPort Extreme. I have a LaserJet 1320 that prints fine when directly connected to my MacBook Pro, but when plugged into the AE, it does not. I am able to see and add the printer via Bonjour, but when a document is sent to the printer an exclamation mark shows up over the printer icon and the queue stops.
When I run Network Diagnostics the following message results:
Network Diagnostics was able to connect to the Internet but not to the server "hp LaserJet 1320 series.pdl-datastream.tcp.local.". This could be caused by problems with the server, or an Internet problem between this computer and the server.
This printer was printing fine via AirPort up until about a week or two ago. Is this related to the recent AirPort update?
Apple (or somebody) please help!!!
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Anyone else noticing that this problem seems to be reoccurring. I've gone through the process of restarting the Aiport Extreme about once a month since I got it. Everything will be working fine, and then one day, it simply stops. Restarting the base station gets things back on track, for a while, at least.
Seems to me to be a firmware problem on the base station, since it's repeatable. Sad to see others are having the problem, but I'm glad I saw this thread since I had convinced myself it was the printer and was about to replace it ...

LaserJet P2055DN - will not print via network

Set up the printer last night as a network printer (replacing an older LJ 2300dn). It would not print a test page. To verify that the printer was good, I loaded the drivers into my laptop and connected via usb. Was able to print a test page via usb. Disconnected usb and reconnected network cable. Released and reset ip address. Verified ip address by pinging from host. When I ping the printer I loose usually half of the packets. There are two other HP printers on the network, a P2015dn and a LJ color 2605dn. Pinging their ip address returns 100% with a ttl=255. Pinging the p2055 produced 4 packets sent, 2 packets received, 2 packets lost, ttl=64 on the 2 returns. I have changed cables to the printer and interchanged ports on the network switch (verified the ports on the network switch by printing to the LJ 2605) with the same result. I cannot get the internal web server to come up, or it partially displays, or combinations of the above. If this had the older style removable print server like in my lj2300, I could swap it out, but it doesn't look like I can do that with this model. When I send a test page to the printer, it displays "printing", the green light on the top is flashing, the activity light on the network card is flashing, but nothing happens. Eventually, I get a "this document failed to print' notification on the host, but the printer still indicates "printing" and the lights are still flashing. Anyone have any ideas? I think I'm looking at a bad network/print server card in the P2055.
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I also had problems printing via the network to hp p2055dn. There was no problem printing via USB. All network settings were ok. Can ping, etc...
Many days of wrangling, finally found that the Network Config.Security had to be Reset on the printer's physical control panel.
Press Ok on the printer control panel --> press down arrow, you get to Setup Menu Network Config --> press Ok --> A number of down arrows down you get to Network Config. Security --> press Ok --> you have two options - Keep or Reset --> Choose Reset........ Network printing should be working fine.

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