Jetdirect Help

[dutrizacd]

Hello everyone.

I've got a HP 750C plotter on my network and it's using an internal jetdirect card to connect to the print server. The OLD print server is an NT4 server box using jetdirect ports to plot. I've recentlyl installed a 2003 server and I'm using tcp/ip printing for all my network printers. I've been able to set a static IP to all my other HP printers except for this one. No matter how hard I try to configure the IP manually on the 750c plotter, I can't get the IP to stick.

I decided to try using web jetadmin to "discover" the IP address of the plotter and then reconfigure it that way. No go, it can't find the plotter. Even if I try to do a discovery of the ONLY the mac address of this machine. I also know I have the right mac address too because when I print to it from the old NT4 server box, it lists the mac address in the event logs.

All I have to work with is the Mac address of this plotter.
mac: 0800091d1ac8

Can someone please tell me how I get the IP address of this thing? I mean, how do I lookup the IP address of a network device if all I have is the mac address?

HELP!
Dan Dutrizac
dutrizacd@hotmail.com

 

[GRIFFIN1]

Did you set the IP address of the plotter using the plotters menu?

 

[dutrizacd]

I tried that but the changes would never take.
I think I have my own solution to the problem. I'm gonna try pulling the jetdirect card out of the 750c plotter, and putting it into a HP LJ5. I'll try to set an IP address to that card that way, and then put it back into the plotter. Wish me luck.

Dan

 

[redbeard1]

Older jetdirect cards don't have tcp/ip support for windows, but it did have support for unix tcp/ip. With this type of card you could manually try to set the IP, but it would not work right. To use them in a windows enviroment, you needed to use the DLC/LLC network protocol. NT4 used this protocol, possibly by default. In windows 2000, it could be added. I think 2003 dropped it but I don't know for sure. You might go to the HP site, and see what network operating system it supports to confirm this.

I've ran into this before and I was able to get the printer working by adding the protocol, and then sharing the printer from 2000 server, or off of a 2000 pro workstation.

Was it being shared from the NT4 server before?

 

[howdyduty]

You might try the HP Jetdirect software and use it to configure the device. Download and install it on a computer. You should be able to get it for HP's web site or with the CD that might have come with the plotter.