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Axel · 06:27 AM

Hi everyone !
I have a Stylus Photo 700 connected to my desktop G4 (I use the Gimp-Print drivers), and I share it with an iBook, connected via Airport. I also share my internet connection (PPPoE) with the laptop using Brickhouse.
My problem is that for some reason, the iBook occasionally loses track of the printer (it no longer appears in the Print Center), and I have to go to the G4 and turn off and on again the Printer Sharing checkbox to have it work again.
Any ideas ?
thx in advance for your answers

Axel · Jan 28, 2003, 08:32 AM

A few more details : I don't use an Airport Base station, the connection is made through a computer to computer airport network.
I'm not firewalling the airport interface.
anyone ?

Axel · Jan 31, 2003, 05:34 PM

OK...
Does anyone know how to enable Printer Sharing manually from the command-line, so that I can build a script that will switch it off and on when it stops working ?

Axel · Feb 4, 2003, 08:22 AM

Let's try this one last time...

KaptainKaya · Feb 4, 2003, 08:52 AM

I'm surprised you haven't received an answer on this yet. The only thing I can think of is something to do with the network and how its setup. I doubt its because you're not using an Airport base station though. Sorry bro, this is outta my league even.

chromos · Feb 4, 2003, 10:44 AM

Hi Axel,

I have a similar setup to yours (Epson 5700i connected to G4, shared using Netgear 802.11b router to PowerBook), and like you sometimes I need to physically turn off and on the printer in order to get it to print. However, in my setup the printer name still shows up on the PowerBook and I can send jobs to it, but it just sits there eating up CPU cycles on the G4 until I turn it off/on.

I haven?t been able to track down the cause; it?s just easier to run over to the printer and attend to it (this happens one in every 4 print jobs, I?d guess).

Axel · Feb 4, 2003, 11:20 AM

I'm not really sure it's the same problem then. The issue I'm having seems more like a rendezvous problem, as the printer still accepts jobs from the desktop machine it's plugged in. It's just invisible to other machines.

Sarc · Feb 4, 2003, 11:29 AM

Ask someone kindly to write a shell script for you using the crontab for restarting CUPS every hour or so.

EDIT: rephrase

Axel · Feb 5, 2003, 04:52 AM

Originally posted by Sarc:
Ask someone kindly to write a shell script for you using the crontab for restarting CUPS every hour or so.

EDIT: rephrase

Actually I can do that myself, it's just that from what I've seen, the cupsd daemon is still running on my desktop machine even when Printer Sharing is off, so I thought it wouldn't do the trick.

Cipher13 · Feb 5, 2003, 06:32 AM

Rendezvous just simply can't handle running on a machine with more than one IP address. It just gets confused and ****s up. Pathetic.

That's my guess anyway.

Detrius · Feb 5, 2003, 11:31 PM

so that's why I have difficulty with most features of rendezvous....

Cipher13 · Feb 6, 2003, 12:31 AM

Originally posted by Detrius:
so that's why I have difficulty with most features of rendezvous....

I assume so.

Nothing Rendezvous works for me, and with the iMac being my router, it's obviously multihomed.

So... it must be that. As far as I can figure.

It's like Rendezvous can't handle working with two subnets.

I have an idea... hmm. Lets see...