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Re: HP JetDirect External (multiport)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Cyr)
Sun Nov 8 02:01:24 1998
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Nov 1998 14:34:14 PST."
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 00:01:26 -0700
From: Colin Cyr <ccyr@sycore.ml.org>
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> 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?
> 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!
Well this is completely correct for any single device JetDirect, however the 3
port has a twist. We encountered this a year ago when configuring the boxes
for our HP-UX server. In order to distinguish between the different printer
ports, you must use different TCP/IP ports. Now isn't that just sooo easy?
To my recall the first printer port is on the standard IP port, but the others
are on (let me look at HP's site)... Go figure they don't have any truly
technical info. Well it's in the JetDirect manual somewhere.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help, I wish you luck.
> Also, telnetting into a printer is kinda fun....:-)
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Colin Cyr (ccyr at home dot com)
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