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    Weird prints after doing portforward to printer.

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    We experience problems in general, with our Ricoh MFP's when setting them up for direct print, through the internet.

    They randomly print out some pages, with "aCoockie: msthash=hello/administrator" - "get/http host : x.x.x.x Connection keep-alive" and other "commands".


    My portforwaring are as follows:

    TCP 515 (LPR/LPD) * 515 192.168.1.199:515
    TCP Print Port 9100 RAW * 9100 192.168.1.199:9100
    UDP 161 (SNMP) * 161 192.168.1.199:161
    UDP 162 (SNMP Traps) * 162 192.168.1.199:162

    I've have attached some of the documents for illustration.

    What to do? Do I miss some ports, for communication? Or is it people from outside, who try to access it?
    This particular machine, is only setup on 1 PC at the moment, so it's not a post script issue.


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    Re: Weird prints after doing portforward to printer.

    What machine models do you have?

    Is postscript present on those devices?

    Are the required ports open from network security of the machine?
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    Re: Weird prints after doing portforward to printer.

    Quote Originally Posted by CloussiDee View Post
    Hi
    We experience problems in general, with our Ricoh MFP's when setting them up for direct print, through the internet.
    They randomly print out some pages, with "aCoockie: msthash=hello/administrator" - "get/http host : x.x.x.x Connection keep-alive" and other "commands".
    My portforwaring are as follows:
    TCP 515 (LPR/LPD) * 515 192.168.1.199:515
    TCP Print Port 9100 RAW * 9100 192.168.1.199:9100
    UDP 161 (SNMP) * 161 192.168.1.199:161
    UDP 162 (SNMP Traps) * 162 192.168.1.199:162
    I've have attached some of the documents for illustration.
    What to do? Do I miss some ports, for communication? Or is it people from outside, who try to access it?
    This particular machine, is only setup on 1 PC at the moment, so it's not a post script issue.
    Thanks
    has their IT people made sure those ports are active and not blocked?

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    Re: Weird prints after doing portforward to printer.

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    Re: Weird prints after doing portforward to printer.

    If you have those ports exposed to the public internet, it's likely that you're getting sniffers, infected machines looking for other things to spread to, and all kinds of other scanning tools hitting the ports which the MFP then interprets as a print job.

    Is there some kind of reason you'd even consider exposing those ports? There's never a good reason to expose the ports as opposed to using a VPN service or some kind of remote access solution.

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    Re: Weird prints after doing portforward to printer.

    I had a similar situation some years back.

    While not exposed to the outside world, a machine was printing junk every so often, but at least a few times a day.

    The customer was able to narrow it down to a few certain times, within a 5 minute or so window.

    We ran Wireshark to monitor the traffic. Sure enough, we found the IP address of the source.

    Turned out someone in the IT department had an old NT4 machine he had been experimenting with, but forgot about...problem found and solved.
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    Re: Weird prints after doing portforward to printer.

    Quote Originally Posted by keithxxiii View Post
    What machine models do you have?

    Is postscript present on those devices?

    Are the required ports open from network security of the machine?

    It's happening on MPC5502, MPC2500 and MPC5000

    The 5502 has postscript installed, not the other 2.


    Ports are working fine - 2 Setups with a Linksys router, and the last on UBNT Unifi.

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    Re: Weird prints after doing portforward to printer.

    Quote Originally Posted by Phil B. View Post
    has their IT people made sure those ports are active and not blocked?

    Yes, portsforwarding are ok - print/installation/status on the printers are also ok.


    Like i replied on the last post - 2 setups with Linksys router and 1 on UBNT unifi. Same ports forwarded.

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    Re: Weird prints after doing portforward to printer.

    Quote Originally Posted by rthonpm View Post
    If you have those ports exposed to the public internet, it's likely that you're getting sniffers, infected machines looking for other things to spread to, and all kinds of other scanning tools hitting the ports which the MFP then interprets as a print job.

    Is there some kind of reason you'd even consider exposing those ports? There's never a good reason to expose the ports as opposed to using a VPN service or some kind of remote access solution.

    I'm aware that i'm exposing the ports - We started out with only port 9100, but that made some problems with status on the print/toner etc.


    The reasen for this solution, is that we have 15 different users, who want to access the same printer, and they have 15 different ISP's. So local printing is not a solution.

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    Re: Weird prints after doing portforward to printer.

    Quote Originally Posted by KenB View Post
    I had a similar situation some years back.

    While not exposed to the outside world, a machine was printing junk every so often, but at least a few times a day.

    The customer was able to narrow it down to a few certain times, within a 5 minute or so window.

    We ran Wireshark to monitor the traffic. Sure enough, we found the IP address of the source.

    Turned out someone in the IT department had an old NT4 machine he had been experimenting with, but forgot about...problem found and solved.


    Thanks for the input - Maybe that will be the solution.

    My impression is though, that it is happening after using the "remote print". Sometimes several hours after.
    Days where it is not used, we dont get any junk prints.

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