Generally, the HP printers are a bit opaque in how the setup is done.

You have to change a couple of the answers shown, eg,

Config Network = No, Change to Yes.

Config TCP\IP = No, Change to Yes.

From there, you get choices to configure the

IP
IP Address of the printer.

GW
Gateway Address of the network. (your router's IP address)

SM
Subnet Mask. Almost always 255.255.255.0 in a home network.


I would,

Plug the printer into the LAN.
Set the printer to a fixed IP, SM and GW.

-Can the PCs now Ping the printer's IP? If so, joy.

Install the printer driver. Pretend it's on LPT1 for now. (just the std. Windows one, ignore the floppies)
Add a new Printer Port.
A "Standard TCP\IP Port", and when asked for the IP, use the one you gave the printer.
Change the printer from LPT1 to the port you just created.
Done.

In reply to a post by meditator:

I'm revamping my hardware and, in particular, am wanting to now network my printer rather than running it off a Windows XP machine. The printer's an old HP Laserjet 4M/Plus, so has a choice of interface, including a wired Ethernet 10BaseT, which I now want to use. The intention is to use my Netgear 4-port router to allow sharing of the printer between now two machines, one the WinXP machine and the other a Mac.

Fine, all good plan.

In reply to a post by meditator:

I've tried deleting the existing printer driver in Printers & Faxes and have attempted to set up a new driver in the WinXP machine which will be of a network type, but I've been unable to make WinXP and the printer intercommunicate. Port 2 on the router is displaying orange, as opposed to green, which I think means that it's connected, at the physical level, at 10M bps or less, rather than 10/100M bps.

You don't need to change the driver, just add a new TCPIP printer port, and tell the printer to use that.

In reply to a post by meditator:

Do I need to turn on printer sharing in WinXP? NetBIOS, or anything like that?

No

In reply to a post by meditator:

Does the Laserjet itself require some manual pre-configuring to Ethernet mode?

Yes.

In reply to a post by meditator:

DHCP is turned on in the router but do I have to reboot (power cycle) the router in order to get the router to assign an IP address to the printer?

I would personally avoid dhcp.

This looks about right BUT YOU MAY HAVE TO ADAPT SLIGHTLY TO SUIT YOUR PARTICULAR SETUP.

http://www.perpetualpc.net/jetdirectconfig.html

It's actually not that bad once you figure out how to do it.

Hi,

Info taken from HP website

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Doc...


HP LaserJet 4, 4 Plus, 4V, 4Si, and 5 series and HP Color LaserJet printers

To configure TCP/IP parameters from the control panel, use the following instructions:
Press MENU, repeatedly, until one of the following messages appears on the control panel:
HP LaserJet printer type Control panel message
HP LaserJet 4 and 4m printers: AUX IO MENU
HP LaserJet 4 Plus, 4m Plus, 4v, 4mv: MIO MENU
HP LaserJet 5/5n/5m and the original Color LaserJet: HP MIO MENU
HP LaserJet 4Si/4Si MX: MIO MENU 1 or MIO MENU 2
Press ITEM . CFG NETWORK=NO* will appear.
Press the PLUS button once. CFG NETWORK=YES* will appear.
Press ENTER or SELECT .
Press ITEM repeatedly until CFG TCP/IP=NO* appears.
Press the PLUS button. CFG TCP/IP=YES* will appear.
Press ENTER or SELECT .
Press ITEM until BOOTP=YES* appears.
Press the PLUS button. BOOTP=NO will appear.
When using BootP or DHCP, keep the setting BOOTP=YES* .
The BootP or DHCP server will configure the TCP/IP parameters on the HP Jetdirect.
No other TCP/IP configuring is necessary.
Press ENTER or SELECT .
Press ITEM . IP BYTE 1 = (value) will appear.
Press the PLUS button until the value of the first byte of the IP address appears on the control-panel display. By pressing SHIFT and the PLUS button, the value will decrease.
Press ENTER or SELECT .
Press ITEM to continue. Repeat Steps 11-13 to configure the remaining bytes of the IP address.
Repeat Steps 11-13 to configure the subnet mask bytes (SM BYTE 1=), syslog server IP address (LG BYTE 1=), default gateway (GW BYTE 1=), and timeout (TIMEOUT=).
Press ONLINE . Print a self-test page to verify the IP settings.
If the test page does not show the correct settings, power cycle the printer and reprint the test page.

HTH

GeeTee,

Last night I came across an old Mac forum query where a user was having a very similar problem, trying to get his Laserjet 4MP printer networked under Snow Leopard. He'd almost given up but managed to get a 'friend-of-a-friend' to help who was a networking guru. They still had problems but in the end they managed it by doing exactly what you've now suggested - entering a suitable IP address manually in the printer and then setting up the printer driver on the computer, ensuring that the appropriate output port was chosen. He said that there was, within the MIO menu on the printer, a sub-menu called CFG TCP/IP, where it was possible to configure the various IPs to suit the router in use (though I guess the router itself can be given a new IP address in one of the other acceptable ranges, if need be). I'll now have a go at finding that menu on mine.

Among the Byte fields apparently, there was one called LG Byte and I can't, for the life of me, think what LG stands for. The other Byte fields are obvious. Apparently, LG Byte needs setting to all zeros.

My router is a wired Netgear DG834 which currently has the LAN address 192.168.0.1. So, if I program that address into the printer as the gateway address and give the printer the address 192.168.0.10, say, I reckon it should work. Not sure as to whether the router will need configuring for this, though. At the moment, the router uses DHCP to assign addresses. You reckon that I don't need to turn DHCP off in the router, eh?

Syslog server IP address (four bytes). This is usually seen on the front control panel as LG BYTE

From http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Doc...

Edited by deleted (Mon 21-Mar-11 12:36:02)

Yeh, I reckon that's it, path6336! I'll give it a go later today. Busy with something else at moment.

And you've indicated what LG Byte stands for. I don't, however, know which values to set for LG Byte. Leave at all zeros?

It's the address of your Syslog Server if you have one. If not, 0.0.0.0

The Syslog Server being ....... ?

A program that analyses Syslogs. Here's one http://www.kiwisyslog.com/kiwi-syslog-server-overview/

I would guess (and it's a long time since I've used Jetdirect in the older HP's) that the only ones to alter would be the IP address, the SubnetMask (though this could be already set sensibly by default) and the GateWay (usually the router's address).
For the others I would expect the defaults to be 0.0.0.0

HTH