[nflug] printing

[David J. Andruczyk]

Some printers like that respond to ANY queue name.  they just take
data arriving and print it.

--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:


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    Sam Stern wrote:  
   
      
-----Original Message-----From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org
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peter at thecybersource.comSent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 04:36 PMTo:
nflug at nflug.orgSubject: RE: [nflug] printingYes, I know, I will
check that out when I have the printer up again. Ialways use that
for local stuff but never thought of trying to hit aremote (albeit
internal)printer via the web interface on port 631.I think Sam
thought I had the printer connected directly.    
    
Close. I thought you had a remote printer, connected to cups and
then sharedout again. I've never heard of remote printers that run
cups -- lpr, customipp stack, samba and/or jetdirect yes -- but not
cups. This scheme (ofresharing a printer with cups) works amazing
well and I've seen it inseveral small offices esp. when the printer
drivers are invasive (like hpprinter drivers) or unstable. I've
also seen that done when the printeritself has a flaky or odd web
interface.Thinking of it, if it's jetdirect (port 9100 is jet
direct) there is likelya snmp mib that you could load and thus
discover the queue name of theprinter with (via snmp). Perhaps you
could share a quick "nmap -sT$pirnter_ip" of the ricoh and we can
tell what services it exposes?Sam
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peter at Office:~$ nmap -sT 192.168.1.8

Starting Nmap 4.03 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at
2007-03-2911:27 EDT
Interesting ports on 192.168.1.8:
(The 1669 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT     STATE SERVICE
23/tcp   open  telnet
80/tcp   open  http
515/tcp  open  printer
631/tcp  open  ipp
9100/tcp open  jetdirect

This is not the ricoh but a zonet print server but same issue. I
knowthat the queue is suppose to be lp1 but there is no mention of
lp1anywhere in the web interface of the thing and I have it
calledzonet_print_server. So, how would one know what to call the
printqueue? What currently works to these is something
likehttp://192.168.1.8:631/lp1 but there is NO mention of lp1
anywhere onthe devices web interface. Could I use this snmp command
your talkingabout to sniff this out?
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-- David J. Andruczyk


 
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