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Re: HP JetDirect External (multiport)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Toby Herring)
Sat Nov 7 19:51:36 1998
Reply-To: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
From: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 19:46:24 -0500
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Oh, and to elaborate on the "3-port" question. It's an external print
server. One 10/100bT connection (10b2, as well) and 3 parallel ports on the
back.
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Toby Herring
IS Coordinator
SyncroFlo, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Deryk Barker <dbarker@camosun.bc.ca>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Saturday, November 07, 1998 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: HP JetDirect External (multiport)
>Thus spake Toby Herring (therring@syncroflo.com):
>
>> Has anyone been able to set up an HP JetDirect External 3-port print
server
>> to be used as an lpd printer?
>>
>> I have single port externals and internals working fine, but I can't
figure
>> out what to use for a remote queue name to get lpd to be able to TCP/IP
>> print to the printers.
>
>Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "3-port" but we have a JetDirect
>4000 and I managed to lpd to it this week with amazing ease.
>
>After setting the TCP/IP address from the front panel, I simply used
>used printtool to set up a remote printer. I used the same name for
>the queue as the printer's DNS name and printed a test page - voila!
>
>Also, telnetting into a printer is kinda fun....:-)
>
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