Hey guys,

I've got an old HP Laserjet printer with a JetDirect card, and I've got this spare ethernet jack in my room here, and my parallel cable's nowhere near 40 ft. long....

Basically I wanna hook this up as a printer that's available to 1) myself, and 2) the people in my building. How do I go about this? Once I get it hooked up and get it on DHCP (I'm assuming that's what I need to do), how do I find the printer's IP so I can print to it?

Thanks.

well in order to find it, all i think you need to do is use new printer wizard. network printer, and then just find it, prolly under workgroup or mshome, or maby printer....etc

look up a manuall for it though, prolly will tell you where to look for it, unless it lets you choose options, as for setting it up for yourself and others in the building, gl unless ur on a private network, if its campus network gl with it.... which would be interesting since it would get a 131.151... internet adress, so theortically someone could print to it from outside the campus.... hmmm hacking a printer thats one for the books

Is the jetdirect onboard or an externel one.

If its external you press a button on it somewhere and it prints a page with the information you need.

If its internel you should be able to configure it with the menu buttons and led display or print a information page.

What model laserjet is it?

It's a Laserjet 4, just like the one in the Quad CLC except not an MP, and I've found it's not very fond of PostScript either...which is sad because I actually USE PostScript documents.

The JetDirect card is internal.

I think what I'm gonna do is go ahead and connect it and try to run DHCP client on it, if it connects good..then I don't turn it off and voila, static IP.

Or...Can I assign/use a default dynamic name to the printer, like all the ones on campus do? i.e. mcs207-l for the LaserJet in CS207 on the left.

Edit: Guru, that reminds me of that time last year before I got this printer and I was off the campus network, and I set up one of the Basic Engineering CLC printers to print via LPR...I remember taking the computer back up to my hometown, printing off a 40-page document, and had it waiting for me in the BE CLC the next Monday when I got back in town. That was fun times.

lol very nice, its the way to go really, printing on school printers from where ever, tis fun