Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network
The printer musthave a fixed IP, because it does server tasks. It is not possible to let it get an IP automatically from the DHCP server (the address would be everytime different). Do the following: Enter "ifconfig" and look which IP is assigned to the card for your local network. It is usually "192.168.0.1". So the network is "192.168.0.". Assign an address inside this network to the printer, but choose one which cannot be assigned by the DHCP server. With the default setting in /etc/dhcpd.conf you can choose the fourth number of the printer's IP from 2 to 15. So you can use 192.168.0.2 for example. Please check the printer's manual for how to set this addres on the printer. Till Philip Trauring wrote: How can I set the IP address when the network is using DHCP? What's the default subnet for a DHCP server on Mandrake? I just used the Internet sharing feature in DrafConfig. I can set an IP Address on the HP from my Mac without a problem. It can be set to get it's IP address from DHCP as well, but then the IP address with theoretically change each time it powers up, no? There must be a way to use a Printer over a DHCP network.
Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network
Philip Trauring wrote: BTW, why isn't this the same interface as when I click to configure a printer from DrakConfig? I figured it was the same an ran it a bunch of times before I realized it was not. In DrakConf you get printerdrake, the thing which searches the network for printers is kups. Here's a problem - It automatically scans the subnet for my external NIC, but the printer is connected to the internal NIC which I have set up to serve IPs using DHCP. I haven't configured the printer with a specific IP address since the rest of my network are Macs and they connect to the printer using appletalk and don't need an IP address. First you must give an IP address to your printer. See the printer's manual how to do so, Linux does TCP/IP networking and therefore it needs IP addresses for all network devixes which it wants to access. The port on which the printer listens is 9100 by default. Leave it on this value. Make sure that the printer allows Socket or AppSocket access. To let kups scan the other NIC do the sma as you have already done, but in the window where you can scan the network, click on "Settings" and change the IP address range to the internal network, then scan again. Or type the address and the port of the printer directly into the fields on the right. Any suggestions? How do I get it to scan my second NIC? Do I need to assign it an IP address first? How can I make sure the IP address doesn't change? As I told the IP address has to be configured in the printer, it stores it in a non-volatile memory and so it is conserved even if you turn off the printer. Till
Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network
BTW, why isn't this the same interface as when I click to configure a printer from DrakConfig? I figured it was the same an ran it a bunch of times before I realized it was not. Here's a problem - It automatically scans the subnet for my external NIC, but the printer is connected to the internal NIC which I have set up to serve IPs using DHCP. I haven't configured the printer with a specific IP address since the rest of my network are Macs and they connect to the printer using appletalk and don't need an IP address. Any suggestions? How do I get it to scan my second NIC? Do I need to assign it an IP address first? How can I make sure the IP address doesn't change? Thanks, Philip Start "kups", Choose "Printer", "Add". Choose "AppSocket" (or "Socket") as backend and on the next screen click on "Scan". You printer will appear in the list field. Now you click on it and then on "Next". As driver you can choose either The "HP 4050" drivers offered (they print in PCL mode) or you click on "Have driver" to load the PPD file which came with the printer. Then you print in PostScript mode with all options which the printer also has in Windows, and 1200 dpi. Go also to http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html Till Philip Trauring wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and I have an HP Laserjet 4050TN on the same Ethernet network that I'd like to be able to print to. It's not clear to me how to do this. Technically the HP has a built-in print server, but I'm not sure how to connect to it from Mandrake. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Philip
Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and I have an HP Laserjet 4050TN on the same Ethernet network that I'd like to be able to print to. I presume that you installed CUPS, with this I got it working anyway There are two ways in which you can do this: a) TCP/IP connection (printer independently on the network) For this you need to have the printer properly setup as a printserver (default it is not activated). You can do this through the LCD-panel on the printer. See the manual or the website of HP for more info on that. Once configured the printer you can need to now its hostname and on which TCP/IP port it is listening for print-requests. Select "Printer Configuration" in DrakConf. Select "Add" | Select "Remote Printer" | Select "Network printer (Socket)" Give the name of the printer (lp0, lp1 etc). The location description are just labels. Then give the hostname port of the printer. Last, choose the correct driver. The Laserjet4000 4050N are listed and will work perfectly. Done. b) Through a Windows print-server For this you need to know the server-name, the sharename of the printer and a valid user-account which has print-rights on the server. Select "Printer Configuration" in DrakConf. Select "Add" | Select "Remote Printer" | Select "SMB/Windows 95/98/NT" Give the name of the printer (lp0, lp1 etc). The location description are just labels. Then give the hostname of the server, it IP-address, the Share-name and the account information etc etc
Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network
Start "kups", Choose "Printer", "Add". Choose "AppSocket" (or "Socket") as backend and on the next screen click on "Scan". You printer will appear in the list field. Now you click on it and then on "Next". As driver you can choose either The "HP 4050" drivers offered (they print in PCL mode) or you click on "Have driver" to load the PPD file which came with the printer. Then you print in PostScript mode with all options which the printer also has in Windows, and 1200 dpi. Go also to http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html Till Philip Trauring wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and I have an HP Laserjet 4050TN on the same Ethernet network that I'd like to be able to print to. It's not clear to me how to do this. Technically the HP has a built-in print server, but I'm not sure how to connect to it from Mandrake. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Philip
