On Saturday 20 April 2002 08:20 pm, J. Craig Woods wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 19:45, engage wrote:
> > I have an HP 660C inkjet printer attached to my Linux box on the parallel
> > printer port. I want to assign it an internal network address so that the
> > Windows clients can access it without Samba.
>
> You can not assign it "an internal network address". The HP 660C does
> not offer an option for ip assignment. It is what it is according to
> whatever computer it is connected to.

The setup asks for a host name along with a port number.

>
> > MCC gave a default port of 9100 which didn't work.
>
> What kind of printing protocol were you trying to use in conjunction
> with port 9100? If you are bound and determined to *not* use samba (why
> you would be against samba makes no sense to me. It would make sharing
> that printer a cake walk but hell that is just my take on it), about the
> only option left to you, excepting the purchase of a hardware print
> server, is IPP, and I have found more times than not that windoze does
> not play nicely with IPP.
>

I had too much trouble getting Samba configured on Mandrake 7.2 so Samba will 
be a last resort.

I tried IPP but couldn't print a test page from Linux. I tried some other 
ports (such as 35 for a private network as well as others) to no avail.

I have an unused port on the hub if I have to go get an external print server.

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