** Reply to message from James.Rocks@equant.com on Thu, 30 May 2002 12:11:17 +0100 # No, I have already set the IP, that isn't the problem, the problem was how # to address a printer on such a JetDirect box and specifically how to # address the the specific parallel ports (there are 3) on it. # # To give an example ... the standard queue name is 'lp' I believe. I have # known windows printing systems that demand specific queue names and perhaps # that is so here? Perhaps the differentiation between ports is based on # queue names? Or perhaps on port number e.g.'Port 1', 'Port 2' or 'Port 3' This is an excerpt from Cups Help: Common Network Interface Settings Once you have set the IP address you can access the printer or print server using the ipp, lpd, or socket backends. The following is a list of common network interfaces and printer servers and the settings you should use with ESP Print Pro: Hewlett Packard JetDirect w/o IPP HP JetDirect or AppSocket 9100 9101 9102 Hewlett Packard JetDirect w/IPP Internet Printing Protocol ipp://address/ipp ipp://address/ipp/port1 ipp://address/ipp/port2 ipp://address/ipp/port3 Mine is set up like this: Description: LaserJet 4000N (PS) Location: 127.0.0.1 Printer State: idle, accepting jobs. Device URI: socket://192.168.1.103:9100/<<<<<<<<< This address will rotate from 9100 for the first printer to 9101 for the second. This is from CUPS. I am not quite sure how you will proceed if you are not using CUPS. I think the command "lpadmin" as root is used to setup under lpd, but I have never used it. "socket://ip.address:" is the key to talking to the JetDirect box. I am not sure how the box discriminates among its 3 ports. Hope this helps. Ed Harrison, broadcasting on ----/ / ---/ / (_) __ __ _ _ _ __ --/ /__ / // \/ // /_/ /\ \/ / -/___//_//_/\_//__,_/ /_/\_\ by SuSE(8.0), Kernel 2.4.18, X 4.2 or Windows98 (running in vmware 3.1 for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.22prev3 with IBM JDK 1.3.1