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I'm looking right at my trusty 7½ year old LaserJet 4M with 2552A NIC. Go to
an HP printer parts dealer (like The Printer Works) and order a NIC that
supports AppleTalk for the LJ4, and PostScript SIMMs for both. This will send
your LPR problems to bed... The deathbed!
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Roth [mailto:tomroth@wfubmc.edu]
>Subject: HP printer access problem
>
>
>
>I've configured a lot of printers and print queues but I've run across a
>problem that just doesn't seem to make any sense I was hoping someone
>might be able to help.
>
>A few months ago I was trying to setup an HP LaserJet 4 Plus for use in
>our computer store repair area. I setup a print queue on our WinNT 4.0
>Server that prints to it via TCP/IP (LPR port). I then added the
>computer store group to the printer's security/permissions section and
>gave them full control. It works fine whenever I or my boss prints to
>it (we're network administrators) but whenever someone in the computer
>store group tries to print to it the job hangs in the print queue and it
>just says error without any further information. I even added the
>individual users to the printer's security/permissions section with full
>control, thinking there might be a problem with the group permissions
>but that didn't help any.
>
>In desperation I finally install TCP/IP Printing on each person's
>workstation in the computer store repair area and had them print
>directly to the printer (using an LPR port), by-passing the server print
>queue and that worked just fine but I still don't know why they can't
>print through the server print queue.
>
>More recently, I just ran into the same problem with an HP LaserJet 4
>(not plus) which I was installing for the computer store sales floor.
>This time I setup a HP JetDirect port (printing via TCP/IP) on the NT
>Server and again I added the computer store group to the printer's
>security/permissions section with full control. Yet again, only my boss
>and I could print to the printer. He went and installed the HP
>JetDirect software on each of the sales floor computers and had each
>person print directly to the printer via a HP JetDirect port, by-passing
>the server print queue and that worked just fine.
>
>Previously the computer store sales floor had an Apple LaserWriter that
>I had setup with a NT Server print queue printing to it via AppleTalk
>and everyone in the computer store was able to print to it just fine.
>
>If anyone knows what I might be doing wrong please let me know. I've
>never had a problem like this before. Maybe I'm just doing something
>stupid and don't realize it.
>
>
>--
> Tom Roth • tomroth@wfubmc.edu • tel 336.716.4493
> Wake Forest University School of Medicine
> Dept of Biomedical Communications
> Medical Center Blvd • Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
> http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/
>
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