Oops almost last you in the mass of this maillist. Thanks, a usefull adition. I think that I have enough pointers now to solve the problem next weekend.
Greetings, EvertB -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Parish Sent: dinsdag 29 januari 2002 3:25 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find it. Good luck Brian On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 06:56, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Saturday 26 January 2002 13:34, Evert van den Bos wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I would like to install my HP 970 cxi printer in Mandrake but I want to > > assign it to a tcp/ip port. My printer is not attached to the Mandrake box > > but to a freesco box acting as a printer server. In windows this is fairly > > simple. I just install the printer as if it was attached to my PC > > (ingnoring messages the device is not found). Then I change the assigned > > lpt1 port to the TCP/IP port ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This port is created with > > the installment of an AXIS driver. It works great in Windows and I would > > like to do the same in Mandrake. But I have no idea how, and didn't find > > any clues on the web yet. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Evertb > > If you add your printer using the CUPS web tool > (http://localhost:631/printers) you will see one of the options is to use > 'Internet Printing Protocol', and then on the next page it shows some example > addresses > socket://hostname:9100 > socket://hostname > > I've never needed to use it, but this looks like what you need. > > HTH > > derek > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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