printing configuration of networked printer under Linux

Hello everyone,

I am trying to print to my department's main networked printer, a Xerox

Document Center 470ST, from my Linux laptop. My problem is that the IT department "naturally" doesn't support Linux and won't even tell me how everything is configured...

The only information I have is:

- when I send a print job from my Windows machine, the printed pages show up under a cover sheet which has my Windows-Novell username written across it in big letters

- going to the Windows control panel of a computer which can print to the Xerox, selecting this printer, "Properties" and then "Ports" shows that it is "talking" to the printer over "Standard TCP-IP Protocol" to the address 128.122.182.248 on port 9100. The selected protocol is "raw" (rather than "LPR").

Does this mean that this is a Windows printer and I should be using Samba? Or that it is using Novell? (If so, can I still use CUPS?) I tried configuring CUPS to send jobs over either IPP or LPR to socket:--128.122.182.248:9100 using the recommended PPD for the Document Center 400 but always get an "server-error-internal-error" message.

Thevar-log-cups-errorlog file is filled with nothing but

E 24-Oct-2005:13:37:25 -0400 AddCert: Unable to create certificate fileetc-cups-certs-0 - File exists

I would be really grateful for any guidance.

Best

Mack