Print Server & TCP/IP

Sir:



Thanks for the recomendation.

Set the LM Announce switch to on in the print server.  OS/2 does not
assume something is there.

Cannot help with the <snip> stuff.

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Bill
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George,

FYI, I bought the exact same PN7127P print server at Fry's today on your
recommendation.
I am unable to set the IP address from OS/2 using the above procedure.
Yes, I am using an IP address on my LAN, and the NodeID printed on the
back of the print server.

[c:\]hawk
arp -s 198.144.199.92 00:40:01:80:27:2C
ping 198.144.199.92
PING 198.144.199.92: 56 data bytes

----198.144.199.92 PING Statistics----
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

[c:\]arp -a
          ARP table contents:

interface     hardware address         IP address   minutes since
                                                      last use
  lan0       (incomplete)       198.144.199.92            0

[c:\]

The weirdest thing is that if I use the same procedure under Win2K, it
works, and properly sets the IP address. It appears to be an OS/2
specific problem. I can reboot to OS/2 and then the IP address will
respond... Until the print server is powered off, at which points it
forgets about all the settings.
I'm curious what version of TCP/IP you are using, since you got it to
work in OS/2. I'm using TCP/IP 4.3 under WSEB

I gave up trying to figure out what was wrong with the OS/2 stack and
ARP. I just did the setup with ARP under Win2K. Then, the web management
interface became available, and I could save the IP address setting into
the print server permanently - even if powered down. Since then, the
Hawking PN7127P has worked fine with OS/2's TCP/IP.

I'm not using OS/2's built-in lprportd which is excruciatingly slow and
buggy. I was getting lots of delays and lost jobs with it. Instead, I am
now using Serge Sterck's excellent lpr32 package, which is available
from Hobbes. With it, the jobs go to the printer over 100 Base T
instantly, there is no delay, and it just works as a network printer is
supposed to be. I'm very happy. This is particularly true because my
main machine is SMP (dual Athlon MP 1500+) and to this day IBM has not
resolved the major printing problems in PRINT01.SYS that caused the
computer to be completely useless during printing. With the TCP/IP
printing it all works smoothly and transparently, without any CPU usage.
I think Serge should sell his great package to Hawking to bundle as an
OS/2 driver.

The Hawking PN7127P is also supposed to support NetBEUI. The doc is very
thin on that support. It does work in Win2K though, after updating the
software. But the printer remains invisible to OS/2's NetBEUI for some
reason. I'm not going to bother pursing that problem, since TCP/IP was
successful for me.

On the topic of printing. I'm using an Okidata 610E/PS printer, which
isn't officially supported in OS/2. I use the LASERJET.DRV Okipage 6/6ex
driver from IBM which gives 600 dpi and works very fast. This printer
also supports Postscript - which works when I use the PSCRIPT.DRV
drivers and select HP4MP (that also gives 600  dpi). The results for
graphics are noticeably better with PS than with PCL.  But the
Postscript processing in the printer is very slow - I'm talking minutes
per page in PS, instead of 6 pages per minute in PCL -  even with the
maximum amount of printer RAM (18.5MB); so I'm using it primarily in PCL
mode. In addition, the emulation autoswitch (PJL) doesn't work right, so
I have to switch the printer from Postcript to PCL manually on the
control panel before I submit a job to each PS / PCL printer object in
OS/2 ... Not practical. I think I could possibly solve that one with a
"separator" file containing the right switch commands to put in the
printer object, if I could obtain them from Oki or reverse engineer them
from their Windows drivers. Unfortunately the switch commands for Oki
are slightly different from HP's printers - the HP drivers' autoswitch
doesn't work. The Oki is a very good PCL printer though, just not a
usable PostScript printer. It is a 6 year-old black & white LED printer;
and I'm considering replacing it sometime soon. Can anyone recommend a
good laser printer that could process Pos

Bill,

There are no NETBEUI settings whatsoever on the print server side. Not even a
way to enable/disable NETBEUI support for it. The web management interface has
settings for AppleTalk, TCP/IP, SNMP, IPX, just nothing on NETBEUI. Yet it
does work in Win2K by "creating a network printer port" on the NETBEUI stack.
The print server ends up with an odd queue name, but it's there. If it can be
made to work with NETBEUI on OS/2, I don't know how ...

Julien:  I'm not sure why the arp setting the IP address failed, but
the print server will remember its IP address after power down by
setting up a tftp session, 'get'ting the config.txt file, editing the
IP address and then 'put'ting it back.
  This particular model also allows setting all of these parms with a
web browser.

  As for the versions, I am running:
   Inetver reports 4.02w
   TCP/IP Stack is 5.12.2 WR08423

Following your advice, I downloaded Serge Sterch's LPR32 but have been
unable to get it to work.  The print queue just shows OffLine, but it
is accessable on the network to other systems.

George Barrowcliff

Try http://www.haynes97.freeserve. co.uk and follow this links to the
LPR page.

Hope this helps.

Colin.

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:38:13 GMT, "GW Barrowcliff"

You may need to set the IP address under Windows or DOS or via a
telnet connection to the box depending on what it will accept to make
it address compatible with your network.

Following on that, set it up using the LPR method. You will need to go
to thwe TCPIP setting notebook and enable lprd which must be running
to support LPR.

Regards,

Hugh

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:38:13, "GW Barrowcliff" <Barro @prodigy.net>
wrote:

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Sorry I missed the commencement of this thread.
What is this hardware and where did you find it?
$49.00 (even in US $ from Canadian loonies) is a good deal for a print
server.

Geoff

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:57:24, z @bergenbrunswig.com (George



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Follow up on my success with the $49 PN7127P Print Server Install.

This model of print server plugs right onto the Centronics connector
on the printer, uses an external power supply and connects to the
network with an RJ45 connection.

After hooking it up, I set the IP address from the command line in
OS2:

1.)  arp -s 192.124.155.203 00:40:01:80:25:DF
2.)  ping 192.124.155.203  [successful]
3.)  followed Colins LPR instructions at

http://www.haynes97.freeserve. co.uk/lpr.htm using lp1 as the printer
name [this is critical]

4.)  This gets object printing on the desktop
5.)  Redirecting LPT1 to this port:
     SPOOL /D:LPT1 /O:HawkingL

Works good, I recommend it.  Easiest and cheapest way to add a
printer.

George Barrowcliff

Sir:

Fry's had one in that price range when I was there last week to replace
the almost one month old flat pannel monitor with a CRT. :-(  Try their
on-line store.
--
Bill
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