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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