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Hi Ed,
Your owner's manual should give you a default ip for the Jet Direct. Telnet to it and change it to an IP on your network. Do you have a router on the system? It may be using DCHP and assigning it an ip. The "status" query to the router will give you this number.
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' James James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com
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** 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
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