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Date:	Tue, 9 Oct 2001 08:06:27 PDT
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Print Servers (SMC)

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On 10/8/01, Sheridan George wrote, in part:
>Dave Watson wrote:
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>> ... Anybody had any experience with this?
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>Yes. Both Steve Carter and I have what you describe as
>the print server on our C20 printers. Works fine here.
>
>Make sure to get one that runs tcp/ip and, just as important,
>sets up with a web browser. That way you will not have to
>fire up a Windows machine to do the configuring. Or as
>is the case with the one that came with my C20, telnet into it.
>This is tricky unless you have a DHCP server to get an initial
>address so one can change to a fixed address for the printer
>object in OS/2. Fortunately my SMC router/firewall has a DHCP
>server built in. >Sheridan

For the (Digi 3400x) printserver that came with my (n)C20
I followed the Windows directions and used the arp -s command to
set temporarily the fixed IP address I wanted to the mac address of
the printserver (it's on the prinout), and then used telnet to
set it for real. Tricky? Well ... maybe a little, but
nevertheless easy enough. I'm not a software guy. Nice to know
that OS/2 has that stuff, specifically good networking support,
including arp, built in.

Could have used DHCP, but I'm (still) using fixed IP right now.
Using arp and telnet was an "adventure".

I agree totally about TCP/IP and the built-in browser interface.
The lack of TCP/IP printing disqualified several inexpensive
printservers from my shopping list. You could maybe live
without the browser interface, but why? There are plenty out
there with the "right stuff".

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