Well, network gurus, I need your help again. Bought a JetDirect external print server 300X and hooked it up to the HP Color LaserJet 2550L printer (I no longer have parallel printer cables and Free Geek had only the Paleolithic dual-DB25-male cables ... after a search in the back room). So, I bought a Centronics parallel cable at ENU and connected the printer and print server.
The 300x test function prints out 2 pages of network configuration. CUPS (via the Web interface) automatically assigned the address of 192.168.55.101 and won't let me change it. I think the JetDirect has a dhcpd server internally. According to the output from my pressing the 'test' button on the 300x, the host name is NPIEED08D and is configured by DHCP. The IP address is as above, but the server shows the BOOTP/DHCP server IP address as 192.168.55.200. That's a big problem as that's been the address of the local wireless access point for a half-dozen or so years. Result: I cannot print to the 2550L and when I try to use the CUPS web interface it asks for a user and password, but says it sees 'CUPS' as the user. Shutting off the printer restores the wireless access point. Can I just change the WAP's IP address in /etc/hosts to resolve this problem, or is there more work I need to do? TIA, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
