A.P. Lawrence

printer access list

If this isn't exactly what you wanted, please try our Search (there's a LOT of techy and non-techy stuff here about Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and just computers in general!):

From - Tue Dec 21 07:06:24 1999
Xref: world comp.unix.sco.misc:112325
Path: world!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!remarQ70!rQdQ!supernews.com!remarQ.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail
From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: hpnp laser printer config problem
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:52:05 -0800
Organization: Committee To Maintain an Independent Xenix
Lines: 32 Message-ID: <saqt5sgnfp16gf8dmf5qjlhnaol2tm63g9@4ax.com> References: <385ED8F3.B023DBE5@iquest.net>
Reply-To: jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us
X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mozilla-Status: 8010
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:33:39 -0500, Joel Harris <harrisj@iquest.net> wrote:

Why do you *ASSUME* that an HP printer utility will work with a Xerox
printer?  Is the Xerox 225 an HP Jet Direct compatible ?

>"Add <servername> to the printer's access list before continuing".

This is a bogus error message which really should say:
        "Cannot communicate with printer on port 9100"
The HP printer utilities only work with genuine HP printers and with print
server that talk on port 9100-9102.  No clue where your Xerox 225 printer
wants to talk.  You can edit the port number(s) with instructions:
        http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?105327
These are made for tweaking the spooler scripts for the 3 port print
servers, but will also work for setting the port numbers to something other
than the HP defaults.

Your other alternatives are to use lpr/lpd.  Search:
        http://stage.caldera.com/ta
with the keyword "lpr" for instructions.  Be sure to only run "mkdev rlp"
once, or you will have a mess to deal with.

Another option is to use netcat.  See:
        http://www.cruzio.com/~jeffl/sco/lp/
This will "cat" a file to any arbitrary port number.

-- 
Jeff Liebermann  150 Felker St #D  Santa Cruz CA 95060
(831)421-6491 pgr (831)426-1240 fax (831)336-2558 home
http://www.cruzio.com/~jeffl   WB6SSY
jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us   jeffl@cruzio.com

Enter your email address for automatic notification of new posts here
(be sure to whitelist 'feedburner.com' if you use spam filtering)

Phone and Email Support at Monthly rates

/Bofcusm/203.html copyright 1997-2004 (various authors) All Rights Reserved

Have you tried Searching this site?

Unix/Linux/Mac OS X support by phone, email or on-site: Support Rates

This is a Unix/Linux resource website. It contains technical articles about Unix, Linux and general computing related subjects, opinion, news, help files, how-to's, tutorials and more. We appreciate comments and article submissions.

Publishing your articles here