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HP1300N As a Novell Remote Printer Please help!
I have just Bought a HP1300N Printer and connected it to our network using the JetDirect card supplied. We have a Novell Server running and I want the Printer to pick up print jubs from a print queue on the Novell server. I have done this previously using older JetDirect boxes which allowed me to set a Print Server name and either a Print Queue name or remote printer number. However using the Web Jetadmin software I have downloaded from HP I cannot seem to find these settings for the HP1300N.
I have also tried to create a print queue using the Web Jetadmin software but the Novell server is not listed when it asks me to select a server.
If you require any further information please let me know this is the first question I have posted so please bear with me I am a new boy to all this.
Thanks.
I have also tried to create a print queue using the Web Jetadmin software but the Novell server is not listed when it asks me to select a server.
If you require any further information please let me know this is the first question I have posted so please bear with me I am a new boy to all this.
Thanks.
PsiCop
Well, you haven't bothered to say what version of NetWare you have, so its really rather hard to give you any advice. The advice I'd give to you if you had NetWare v3 is vastly different from what I'd give you if you had NetWare v6.5 (the latest).
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Sorry!,
We are on Netware Version 4.11
If you require any further information please let me know.
Cheers.
We are on Netware Version 4.11
If you require any further information please let me know.
Cheers.
Well, the issue is that you have such an old version of NetWare that it only supports IPX to talk to other network devices, and HP WebAdmin is an IP-only tool (as best I recall). So your configuration tool can't talk to such an old version of NetWare, nor does it know how to tell the JetDirect card to talk to such an old version of NetWare.
Optimally, you would upgrade your NetWare environment to at least v5.1 (the oldest still-supported version; v4.11 was EOLed several years ago). You would still retain a robust Directory Service (NDS), NetWare reliability and security, but you would be able to get rid of IPX and implement a purely IP environment. You could then use WebAdmin to configure the HP printer to talk to NetWare, as WebAdmin would be able to "see" the server.
Less optimally, you could find a copy of the old HP JetAdmin tool (WebAdmin's predecessor), and use it to configure the JetDirect card. This does assume that the firmware on the card supports IPX.
Least optimally, you could implement UNIX File and Print Services on the NetWare server, define the HP printer as an lpr accessed thru a NetWare Print Queue, and configure the HP printer to operate as an lpd (UNIX printer daemon). This is, to put it mildly, a kludge.
My advice would be to upgrade NetWare to a supported version that dispenses with IPX - at least v5.1. You eliminate an entire protocol (IPX) from your environment and you'll be running a supported version. You could even move to NetWare v6.5 (the latest) and start getting things like Apache webserver for NetWare, PHP, MySQL, Perl and so forth that ships with NetWare v6.
Optimally, you would upgrade your NetWare environment to at least v5.1 (the oldest still-supported version; v4.11 was EOLed several years ago). You would still retain a robust Directory Service (NDS), NetWare reliability and security, but you would be able to get rid of IPX and implement a purely IP environment. You could then use WebAdmin to configure the HP printer to talk to NetWare, as WebAdmin would be able to "see" the server.
Less optimally, you could find a copy of the old HP JetAdmin tool (WebAdmin's predecessor), and use it to configure the JetDirect card. This does assume that the firmware on the card supports IPX.
Least optimally, you could implement UNIX File and Print Services on the NetWare server, define the HP printer as an lpr accessed thru a NetWare Print Queue, and configure the HP printer to operate as an lpd (UNIX printer daemon). This is, to put it mildly, a kludge.
My advice would be to upgrade NetWare to a supported version that dispenses with IPX - at least v5.1. You eliminate an entire protocol (IPX) from your environment and you'll be running a supported version. You could even move to NetWare v6.5 (the latest) and start getting things like Apache webserver for NetWare, PHP, MySQL, Perl and so forth that ships with NetWare v6.
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Downloaded the HP NW Printer Wizzard and Job Done!
Thank you everyone for you help.
Thank you everyone for you help.