[ale] Brother printer woes

[Jim Lynch]

Yes, as I said I can telnet to the printer  on .30 from the server on 
.50.  There are other printers defined in cups on the .30 net that are 
configured on the server and are working fine. The test page is from the 
Maintenance tab on the printer administration page for the printer.  
There are two test page options, self test and print test.  Both appear 
to work but don't actually result in paper being generated.  What's 
really disturbing is that cups seems to think all is well and shows the 
completed print jobs in the completed queue.  The normal messages are 
displayed while it is "printing" such as sending, rasterizing, finished, 
etc.  I'd configure the system that needs to print directly to the 
printer except it's a Chromebook and I have to go through the cloud.  I 
have a half dozen printers in cups that are configured to be cloud 
printers and work as advertised. They are all on the .30 net. Since this 
one doesn't even print from cups, I haven't bothered to try to configure 
it to work as a cloud printer, however.

Thanks,

Jim,


On 08/01/2017 05:48 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> You list 2 different networks - 192.168.30 and 192.168.50. Is the 
> netmask all around set for a wide range to include both of those?
>
> Can the cups server on 192.168.50.2 print to it? I use nmap 
> extensively when setting up a new printer since I get stupid fingers 
> on config files.
>
> When you launch a test page it's a cups test page from where?