On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:00:35 -0800, Lance *email_address_deleted* wrote:



Chuck thought carefully and wrote on 3/29/2005 4:19 PM:
How is the printer physically connected to the network? I Googled
and Yahooed
(and never found a link to the manufacturer Oki - I wonder why?), but all the
articles referred to it as a Personal Printer (ie to be connected to a computer
for queue management and sharing).

'cuse me Chuck while I butt in:
http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/C7300-C7500Home.html

The C7300N comes with Ethernet, firewire and parallel ports and it's own
internal print server and web-based printer manager.

Lance
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Thanks for the link, Lance. So the printer has Ethernet. And it supports IPP -
which IIRC is a TCP/IP protocol. TCP/IP does not provide named shares.

For a named share (something visible in Network Neighborhood), my guess is you
have to set up a print queue on a Windows XP server, which then provides the
share.

I have worked with HP Laserjets (not Deskjets - those are another story) which
will let you configure IPX/SPX for named discovery by the HP Printer Management
client. But that is simply to display printer status, manage print cartridge
replacement, etc. For named shares, named print queue management, etc, you
still have to configure the printer on a Windows server, and the printer queue
seen in Network Neighborhood, by all the client workstations, will be a
component of the Windows server.

It sounds to me like you installed it on the one Windows XP Pro computer, as
"http://192.168.0.7", with the Oki IPP driver. If you want to see the printer
as a named share, you'll have to share it from the Windows XP computer. Will
the IPP driver deal successfully with its possibly changing ip address (a result
of using DHCP for address assignment)? You may need to read the printer manual
to find out how that works.

If you don't want to share the printer from the one Windows XP computer, my
guess is that you'll have to install the IPP client on each computer, and refer
to the printer as "OKI C7300N on http://192.168.0.7". That's not a named share,
so you won't see it in Network Neighborhood.

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