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From: Anthony Lawrence <tony@pcunix.com>
Date: Tue Feb 11, 2003 5:06:17 AM US/Eastern
Subject: Re: Help! Cable Modem & Printer on Ethernet
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In article <bg648-1002032121000001@192.168.0.2>, Yet Another John
<bg648@scn.org> wrote:
> In article <3E4867EF.DB3AF206@ecologicaltech.com>,
> nospam@ecologicaltech.com wrote:
>
>> the short answer is no, the cable modem is not going to share the
>> printer
>> for
>> you. a usb printer can probably be shared by software running on the
>> computer
>> to which it is attached. it depends on the driver that hp supplies
>> with the
>> 1200. (and also on whether the netgear router passes the packets
>> correctly
>> between wired and wireless segments of your network.)
>>
>> the connections that you need are:
>> cable-to-cablemodem-to-router-to-computer
>> (using ethernet) and computer-to-printer (using usb).
>>
>>
>> ....... tom klein, ecological technologies
>
> HP sells a thing called a Jet Direct box that hooks onto the backs of
> some
> of their printers and I think the 1200 is one of them. The JD box has
> an
> ethernet port and a USB pigtail that plugs into the USB connection on
> the
> printer. The box is like a NIC in that it will ask the switch/router
> for
> an IP address, or you can assign an permanent address to it using an HP
> utility from a computer on the network.
That's called a "print server" and lots of folks make them (HP,
Netgear, Intel and more). Some are strictly "lpd" printers: they use
the Unix lpd protocol, and you treat them as though they were a Unix
box with an lpd printer attached.
Others are port printers: anythin g presented to them at a certain tcp
port will be printed. The port used will vary: HP uses 9100, Netgear
uses 4010 and others use others. For example, if you "telnet hpjd
9100", anything you type will print. I have a listing of some at
http://aplawrence.com/Jeffl/portnumbers.html
For example, I have a Netgear PS110 here at 10.1.36.221 and I
configured it on Mac OS X with
sudo lpadmin -p laserjet6L -E -v socket://10.1.36.221:4010 -m laserjet
That defines a printer "laserjet6L" and tells it that it should send to
10.36.221 on port 4010, translating postscript to laserjet.
Many of these are multifunction. For example the Netgear PS110 (a two
port model I use a lot) uses the port method, but also can be a lpd
printer, a Novell style ipx printer, and a Windows SMB style (iow, it
appears in network neighborhood). The nice thing is that you don't
have to choose: you can use all the protocols at the same time.
BTW, the HP print servers (not the MIO cards) will happily print to any
parallel port printer, though some older models didn't understand the
newer style EPC ports.
>
> J
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