Woo hoo! Thanks to Alastair I took one final kick at the printer & was able to get it working.
I am sure I tried entering the port number before, but this time when I connected it there was a connection area. I browsed through the options & found one referencing a JetDirect device. Selected that option & like Alastiar said it showed up wit the following: * Socket://ip_Address:9100 Thanks for your help! Why is it the simplest things that seem to annoy us the most? On 12/4/2011 7:03 PM, TekBudda wrote: > I am pretty sure I did that...among many other things....but is always > worth another kick at the cat. > > Like I said....tried a number of things...so many that they got lost in > the grey matter. Lol....I could always try swearing at it again. > > On 2011-12-04 5:33 PM, "Alastair Preston" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On December 4, 2011 04:19:10 PM TekBudda wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Having a challenge & hope someone can find the solution for me, > because > > like a pine tree in last Sunday's wind storm...I am stumped at > this point. > > > > I recently connected an old HP LaserJet 6L to an external > JetDirect box > > & added it to the network. I assigned it a static IP of > 192.168.7.11 & > > looking at the details in WebJet Admin the other network stuff is > fine. > > > > I can connect it via a Windows 7 machine, but I cannot seem to add > it to > > Lisa's computer which is running Unbuntu 11.04. > > > > I have tried adding it through the applet & by going to localhost:631. > > I can add it & choose the drivers & all that good stuff. But when it > > comes to printing a test page it just hangs in the queue. I have > tried > > a number of variations in adding it, but it doesn't seem to want to > > print. I can ping the IP from both Windows & Linux & it sees the IP > > address just fine with no lag on response times. I have tried to > access > > the JetDirect via a browser, but all I get is 503 Service Not > Available. > > > > I know it does print, because I have printed from a windows box & it > > recently printed from that same Linux box when installed as a > local printer. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > You may need to specify the port number on the JetDirect box. > I have a printer coonnected via parallel port 1 on a JetDirect EX > Plus3 box > at 192.168.0.101. The port URI number for Port 1 on that bo x is 9100. > > In the linux printer configuration, I set it up as a local > printer, with the > local URI as "socket://192.168.0.101:9100 > <http://192.168.0.101:9100>" . All the computers on our home > network can access it. > > Hope this helps > > Alastair > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
