Simple printing service for unRAID/BubbaRAID


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I'm having some trouble trying to get this package to print. Ive followed the instructions, but no luck:

 

 

root@Tower:~# ls -ld /var/log/subsys

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May  6 10:39 /var/log/subsys/

 

root@Tower:~# strings /boot/packages/p910nd-0.93/p910nd | grep subsys

/var/lock/subsys/p910%cd

 

root@Tower:~# ls -ld /var/lock/subsys

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May  6 10:39 /var/lock/subsys/

 

root@Tower:~# ls -l /var/lock/subsys

total 0

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May  6 10:39 p9100d

 

root@Tower:~# ls -l /dev/usblp*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May  6 10:44 /dev/usblp0 -> usb/lp0

 

im stumped, the syslog is showing that unraid is receiving the print job?

 

May 6 12:17:03 Tower p9100d[10389]: Connection from 192.168.1.2 port 3167 accepted

May 6 12:17:05 Tower p9100d[10389]: Finished job: 33430 bytes received, 0 bytes sent

May 6 12:28:56 Tower p9100d[10389]: Connection from 192.168.1.2 port 3215 accepted

May 6 12:28:58 Tower p9100d[10389]: Finished job: 100962 bytes received, 0 bytes sent

May 6 12:29:59 Tower p9100d[10389]: Connection from 192.168.1.2 port 3220 accepted

May 6 12:30:01 Tower p9100d[10389]: Finished job: 296485 bytes received, 0 bytes sent

May 6 12:34:19 Tower p9100d[10389]: Connection from 192.168.1.2 port 3251 accepted

May 6 12:34:21 Tower p9100d[10389]: Finished job: 294622 bytes received, 0 bytes sent

May 6 13:42:53 Tower p9100d[10389]: Connection from 192.168.1.2 port 3524 accepted

May 6 13:42:54 Tower p9100d[10389]: Finished job: 32822 bytes received, 0 bytes sent

May 6 13:43:31 Tower p9100d[10389]: Connection from 192.168.1.2 port 3529 accepted

May 6 13:43:33 Tower p9100d[10389]: Finished job: 333650 bytes received, 0 bytes sent

May 6 13:45:09 Tower p9100d[10389]: Connection from 192.168.1.2 port 3539 accepted

May 6 13:45:11 Tower p9100d[10389]: Finished job: 334458 bytes received, 0 bytes sent

 

I tried all the dumb stuff, printer is on, paper is in, usb connection is tight, latest drivers installed, but nothing. Thanks for the help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Once thiis all set up and running fine Can I uninstall GCC and BZip off my flash?  

 

Also - Mine also fails to print and I'm pretty sure all my settings are the same.  In the printer queue it says sending the printer and print complete but surprisingly the printer physically does nothing.  At all...

 

Running beta11.  

Yes, you should be able to remove GCC and bzip, though bzip is use for a number of packages.

 

 

Your settings are not correct

You have /dev/usbl0 and it should more than likely be /dev/usblp0

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I figured I didn't have to do the first 3 things because its already set up to print on my mac (maybe I'm wrong) and I figured I shouldn't be getting a samsung driver because I don't have a samsung printer...am I just being obtuse?

Correct, just follow those instructions but replace the samsung driver with your printer model.

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yeah that's what I did.  When I initiate a print, according to the log it says it starts but no bytes are being sent/received...

 

Sorry Kyle for being a moron...

No worries, I am not near a windows machine right now, but when I get a chance I will late tonight I will see what the settings look like on that machine.

 

How did you set up the printer, and what OS are you running?

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I am running crappy Vista (worst OS alive) and from the printers screen I hit the add a printer button.

 

Then I chose add a network, wireless or bluetooth printer.  from there I selected add a printer using a tcp/IP address or hostname

 

For device I selected TCP/IP device and then put 192.168.0.181:9100 as the port.

 

Protocol is Raw and the port number is 9100. 

 

 

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I am running crappy Vista (worst OS alive) and from the printers screen I hit the add a printer button.

 

Then I chose add a network, wireless or bluetooth printer.  from there I selected add a printer using a tcp/IP address or hostname

 

For device I selected TCP/IP device and then put 192.168.0.181:9100 as the port.

 

Protocol is Raw and the port number is 9100. 

 

 

On a windows XP machine I added the printer as a local printer.  This installed the drivers local, which is what you need.  From there I had to manually change the location settings.  I do not have a vista/windows 7 machine handy right now to test.

 

I might bring my work laptop home tomorrow and do another test on windows 7 and post the steps I used if you can not get it working.

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I was able to get the printer set up under a Windows 7 Enterprise laptop as well

 

The rough steps were:

1. add printer button

2. add as local printer on LPT1 port

3. find your printer and driver, if you can't find it then look on the internet for the driver first.

4. keep hitting next until you get to the "sharing printer" stuff and DO NOT share it

5. hit finish

6. right click on the new printer and select printer properties

7. then click ports

8. click add port

9. select standard tcp/ip

10. hit next

11. for printer name or IP address enter the IP address of your server

12. hit next and it will fail to detect, just let it do that

13. click "custom"

14. click the settings button

15. make sure protocol is RAW and port is 9100

16. hit next, then finish, then close, then apply.

 

17.  You should be good to go.

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I just did that with both Skynet and the internet addy and it didn't work.  WTF?  I get this error in syslog...

 

Sep  2 12:26:47 Skynet p9100d[2811]: Connection from 192.168.0.198 port 61426 accepted

Sep  2 12:26:57 Skynet p9100d[2811]: Finished job: 0 bytes received, 0 bytes sent

 

Now when I run an ipconfig from the windows machine it says it's ipaddress is 192.168.0.180...Maybe that's why its not printing?  How do I open it up then for the windows machine? 

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I just did that with both Skynet and the internet addy and it didn't work.  WTF?  I get this error in syslog...

 

Sep  2 12:26:47 Skynet p9100d[2811]: Connection from 192.168.0.198 port 61426 accepted

Sep  2 12:26:57 Skynet p9100d[2811]: Finished job: 0 bytes received, 0 bytes sent

 

Now when I run an ipconfig from the windows machine it says it's ipaddress is 192.168.0.180...Maybe that's why its not printing?  How do I open it up then for the windows machine? 

Honestly not sure, the directions above should work.  I used a generic text driver for the printer since I only print black and white text from my laserjet.

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