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To follow up with this I decided to try and contact my UK ISP (BT) and have just had a long long chat with them.

They totally deny any sort of blocking even though it is common knowledge that they do (they were ordered by a judge to block certain file sharing sites for a start, not that I use them)

I fortunately have two lines in my office. It appears that I cannot connect by the main one which we use just for data, but I can via the other which I only usually use for VOIP.

My ISP is looking at the problem with my main IP and I have managed to set a static route to the updates via the VOIP line.

So what the particular problem is in my particular case I don't know, but they have passed it to their faults department where I daresay it will get lost......

Suffice to say I have managed to get the updates.

I do believe in general that it isn't per se a problem at the server/website end, and it is almost certainly with the ISPs, but if they are blocking sites using block lists then there is precious little a user can do.

I'll post back if I hear anything from my ISP.

B. Rgds
John

I would suggest that this is definitely the problem :

Oooops 173.236.28.2 is currently listed in APEWS :-(
Entry matching your Query: E-505191
173.236.0.0/18CASE: C-17
Spambots, zombies, contaminated CIDR, bad reputation providerHistory:
Entry created 2012-01-09

It would therefore appear that my UK provider (but not my Spanish one) uses this list.

Unfortunately I very much doubt that my provider is going to remove the IP from their list.

I hate to say it, but it really is up to the web site owner to get it resolved, just the same as if you have a mail server that is blocked.

Proxy chains is OK, IF you have another server :-)

Thanks for the reply.

In the first instance I have to say that I think there is a flaw somewhere.

I seem to have it working now via LPD

I use the standard Xfce print manager (though I have the Samsung version installed)

I do New Printer, Network Printer, wait for it to appear and select it, and then pick LPD network printer via DNS-SD

I did originally pick the standard LPD/LPR Host or Printer option which worked so I tried the Samsung version which seemed happy.

However, I only seem to be able to reliably run LPD

If you add it with the Xfce print manager and go to properties and then try to change the port, it will let you choose a new port but the setting does not stay but I guess that is a bug in the Xfce print manager.

Test Page works but status page does not.

Anyway, at least we can work.

We have got errors in the cups log as follows :

[cups-driverd] Bad driver information file "/usr/share/cups/model/samsung/cms/CLP-300cms2"!

I have seen a few posts about this but not sure of the answer and don't have time to do more on it right now.

B. Rgds
John

Hi,

we have a Samsung ML-2955DW on our network and a couple of Xubuntu Precise 12.04 boxes.

I installed the debs via your repository.

I set one machine up using the Samsung Configurator and that seemed to be OK apart from a cups-ipp-missing-job-history error. Didn't think much about it and got on with the second machine

On the second machine I wondered if I could install it via the Xubuntu Print manager which I duly did. This one threw no errors so I had a look and realised the first must be printing via IPP and the second one via 'AppSocket/JetDirect'

So I decided to dump the printer and reinstall it. And since then it prints nothing but garbage.

I have reinstalled the Samsung drivers, reinstalled Cups, and anything else I could find. But somewhere there must be a corrupt file or setting that I cannot clear.

Any help in sorting this out would be gratefully received. Very frustrating having two virtually identical setups with one printing and one not !

B. Rgds
John