Hi James, How are you going about trying to configure your JerDirect boxes? We use them extensively at my place of work and configuration is accomplished via a simple telnet session to the box, no Windows based software is required. Jesse -----Original Message----- From: James.Rocks@equant.com [mailto:James.Rocks@equant.com] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:31 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] So Very Frustrated :-( Why is it so hard to get configuration information on Linux with a fairly common networking component i.e. a JetDirect box?
From the POV of a Windows techy (me) this is dead easy with any version of Windows I am familiar with (certainly under NT or better) and yet Linux doesn't seem to be able to do it. Why not? Are JetDirect boxes that uncommon? It's very, very frustrating because I am so itchy keen to migrate everything to Linux but without this relatively ordinary printer setup I can't do it. Following the advice I've had I've tried looking at the HP site, I've tried looking on the net, I've posted in several forums and mail lists, I've d/loaded WebMin and HP JetAdmin for Linux and each time I've been stumped. I freely admit it might be me and my inexperience with Linux but I really don't see why it has to be this damned hard ... I'm beginning to believe that my only recourse is to drop back to Windows as the centre of my network and I really, really would rather not do that.
Someone, somewhere out there must know how to configure printers on a multi-port JetDirect box?