Daft question. But is this connected to your router ? Either wired or
wireless ? If so, have you setup your machines with static IP addresses,
or dont you need to ?
A friend of mine has a print server, not a netgear, and he had problems
printing to it from Debian. And afaik I dont think he ever got it
sorted, but I'll check.
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 17:14 +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
> A bit of a convoluted one this so please bear with me...
>
> I spend most of my time on 3 machines: XP, Ubuntu and Vista. Last
> year I installed a netgear PS121 print server but for various reasons
> I've only just started to test it in earnest. My main box (XP)
> prints fine through it (attached to an Epson Stylus Colour 1400).
> Recently I've tried to make that printer (via the print server) work
> with both Vista and Ubuntu and had dreadful results. So much so that
> the only sense I can get out of it is when I use XP - in which case it
> might as well be local!
>
> So XP prints fine. Both Vista and Ubuntu send umpteen pages of
> garbage to the printer if using the server - even if the document I
> send is a one sided test page. I have just connected each box to the
> printer locally (i.e. usb straight into each PC) and it's printing
> fine on each.
>
> The curious thing about all this is, contrary to the way I expected
> the print server to work - you have to redirect a port [1] - it
> doesn't just appear as another network device.
>
> Given it prints fine through XP - I deduce there's nothing wrong with
> the print server.
> Given both Ubuntu and Vista can print locally (i.e. bypass the print
> server) I deduce there's no issue with the printer or the driver on
> each box. The problem only occurs when I go Ubuntu -> PS -> Printer
> or Vista -> PS -> Printer.
>
> The PS manual says it's a driver issue but I think I've proved
> otherwise and it's obviously not a printer issue because it works
> (like a dream) without the server.
>
> So having got through all that preamble - should I look for another
> print server and if so - any recommendations? Or is there another
> possible option I might try?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
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