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Need some help setting up a printer under SAMBA

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nsafreak

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Ok folks, I have my printer hooked up to the network & I'm trying to get it to work properly through the network. It has 10BaseT built in so I thought that this would be fairly easy, turns out that I'm wrong so far. The printer in question is a Colorspan Unity 1200XL-O ( www.colorspan.com ) and is a very capable printer. I'm just having problems setting it up under Linux through SAMBA so that box can be used as a print server as well. Problem is that the print server doesn't see the printer on the network at all. I can ping it just fine from my Windows 2000 machine but if I try & ping it from the Linux box it gets 100% packet loss. I've added it to the hosts file in /etc but that didn't help either. Could somebody give me step by step instructions on how to do this properly or refer me to a website that does? Linuxdoc confused me more than helped me this time. Oh btw, it's a PostScript compatible printer.
 
If you can't even ping the printer you'll have to get the network configured first, make sure all the basics are in like the netmask (Windows isn't picky about this but Linux enforces it 100%) and default gateway.
 
Problem is that this box is my fileserver box & the rest of the network can see it and it can see the network, save the printer. I can do file transfers too and from it from the Windows 2000 as well as the Windows 98 boxes. So wherever it's misconfigured it's not in the regular settings.
 
If it can't even ping IP isn't setup right, probably the netmask. If everyone else can ping the printer and the Linux box can't (and they're on the same network) that narrows it down to the Linux box, otherwise it could be a router.
 
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