On Mon, 07 Jun 2004, Chris Carlen <crobc@BOGUS_FIELD.earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I have a HP Laserjet 1200 series printer plugged into the parallel port
> of one of the two Linux boxes on my home LAN. But the two Linux boxes
> also run VMware with Win98 or Win2k guests.
>
> The Linux box with no printer can print fine to the Linux box with
> printer. But the VMware guests cannot print via the network. The
> VMware machines both have host-only networking and bridged networking
> configured and operating normally...
>
> I am thinking about purchasing the "HP Jetdirect 170x external print
> server for Ethernet 10Base-T networks" for the tolerable price of $130.
>
> Can I expect this to work easily in my Linux LAN environment? I have
> experience with a direct-to-TCP-port printing setup at work, where it
> works as easy as pie, and I can telnet to the printer to tinker with its
> settings. This Jetdirect server says it runs a webserver for config via
> web browser, but also there is some software which I presume only runs
> on Winblows.

At work we had JetDirect 610n card in a 2200DTN (until the card died), but
it is now on an ancient JetDirect EX Plus. Our OfficeJet G85 is now on a
JetDirect x175 (USB port). Any of those were simple to print to by
confiring a TCP printing port in XP/NT (for LPR or JetDirect). The EX
Plus only had a telnet config interface, but WebJetAdmin can coax more
info out of it (like total pages, to estimate remaining toner). The
others have Web interface that has never been a problem to access with any
OS (except when the 1 card died). Although, the only access to them I
have done from Linux was to their web/telnet config via ssh tunnel to
factory 3000 miles and back through VPN 3000 miles (to get to office 3
miles away).

At home I have a Linksys EFSP42 switch/printserver that works fine for
lpr/ipp printing from Linux or WinXP (Win98se needed tp_lpr shareware
to access it on different subnet). Although, XP is not ipp://URL aware so
for its internet printing I used http://netprn.localdomain:631/queuename

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