[nflug] printing

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Thu Mar 29 22:25:54 EDT 2007


David J. Andruczyk wrote:
> 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:  
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> -----Original Message-----From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org
> [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
> 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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tried that and nada
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