| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
Unix Host
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| 6 |Thin wire
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1 | 2 3 | _|__________
____|_|__|_|_________|______|_ | 5 | HP Laserjet
| _____ | | | -4p printer
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HP JetDirect Ex J2382B(External n/w Print server)
1.Thin wire connection (through which i have connected HP JetDirect Ex).
2.utp port.
3.Prallel port.
4.Test button on HP Jetdirect Ex.
5.HP laserjet 4P printer (Which does not have inbuilt ethernet card).
6.Unix Host.
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For the above setup please tell how to configure on Digital unix 3.2.
And system is DEC 3000.
What i have done is,i have configured Unix for bootp.And in etc/bootptab i have
given mac address and ip address for Hp JetDirect Ex.Whatever i have given
in /etc/bootptab HP jetDirect Ex is able to get it.we can test it from the
test print from HP JetDirect Ex.And With Hp JetDirect EX software
is only given for Sun OS,Aux & HP UX.
The above diagram shows how HP JetDirect Ex connected on n/w.
Scince every body is confusing about "HP laserJet 4M plus" printer,Which
has got inbuilt ethernet card.And we can do telnet to this.
HP JetDirect Ex(J2382B) is an external N/W printserver(as above figure shows)
we can only ping .
If someone can help me out.
Matter most urgent.
Thanks in advance.
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| 9390.1 | SMURF::LABONTE | Fri Apr 04 1997 09:52 | 32 | ||
This is probably best answered from someone who has used a j2382B which I have not. Maybe something is better than nothing so here it goes... DEC has something similar called the rapid print. It provides a network connection for serial and parallel devices. I have used one for prining. While it is an external box it does behave the same as an internal card. The HP JetDirect EX J2382B seems to be a similar device. While it may not be an HP JetDirect internal card I would go on the assumption that it behaves the same with the exception it is external to the printer. Since you don't have any documentation there isn't much else go on. Since you can ping the device you are half way there. Of course in printing halfway is the same as no way. There may be more than one way to talk to the device. The two that come to mind are lpd remote printing and tcp/ip socket printing. v3.2 doesn't provide tcp/ip printing but more on that later. When using lpd remote printing sometime these devices require an internal queue name. The most common are raw and text. I would create an lpd remote print queue with an rp (remote printer queue name) of raw or text. For tcp/ip printing I have a v3.2 replacement lpd on my web page or you can upgrade to v4.0a. Tcp/ip printing is more like regular printing in that print filters are used. The key here is that you need to know the socket address to connect to the device. For the internal HP net cards the socket address is 9100. The lpd replacement file and the tcp/ip setup instructions can be found at web site ftp://vorpal.zk3.dec.com/html/print.html . Good luck. | |||||