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Printer to 2 epson printers attached to an HP JetDirect 500x Print Server

I have 2 Epson FX 980 dot matrix printers that are attached to a 3 parallel port print server. I need to setup separate printers on the main server (W28) and then share them out on the network.  I cant getr it to work and I am not sure what I am doing wrong.  The IP of th eprint server is 10.0.0.238 so I setup one printer with this ip address using a new port called auto1 then configure that port so that it uses a raw port 9100 which uses the printer attached to parallel port 1 on the print server and then likewise on the new new port calling it auto2 then configure that port to be using raw port 9101

I cannot print a windows test page to either... im sure its simple.. can someone help??
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is the jetdirect print server new and in factory defaults? you do it absolutely correct. LPT port 1 is on 9100 port 2 on 9101 and port 3 on 9102
checkout the web management of the jetdirect and try to print a testpage there. you can also test a jetdirect with telnet but that is not necessary if you have the web interface on 10.0.0.238 running ok
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the jetdirect was working ok before the servers crashed and burned so nothing has changed on it and i am wondering if i need to re-setup this print server from scratch... i can go to the web interface but its very basic and there are no real tools in there... maybe telnet would be better to do... is there a way of guiding me through this..?
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many thanks but i have done a cold reset of the jetdirect so that i could start from scratch.. however after doing this i printed off a config page and its saying that the ip address is 0.0.0.0  ... how do i connect now..? i thought it would default to 192.x.x.x. ??
It sounds like it's not getting DHCP, A hard reset should set that really.

It may take a few minutes to register so I would get the status page again.
JetDirects should have a default address of 169.254.x.x or 192.0.0.192 (which is real silly).

This page says that 0.0.0.0 can be caused by a bad network connection.