Need help to get NW 4 IPX printer going again

[Randy Grein]

I think you've identified the problem well enough - you need the 3.x or 4.x version of the jetadmin tool, which only runs on Windows 95/98. I see three options:

1. Configure frame type in the printer. This MAY be possible, I don't have one handy to check.
2. Try this software from HP: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&docname=bpj06765
3. Replace the printer setup. I really don't like this idea, but beyond a certain point the surrounding infrastructure makes it impossible to continue using something that still works but is unsupported.


Randy Grein
Sr. Network Engineer


>>> "William H. Blair" <wmhblair at comcast.net> 5/20/2008 12:52 PM >>>
> 1.  "UNABLE TO SENSE NET NUMBER" error could mean that 
> even though it's configured for the 802.2 protocol, you 
> haven't set an IPX network ID. 

I'll buy that. But I have no clue how to set it. And, there
is nothing in anything that I can see or have read that tells
me how to do that, and nothing that shows anything so labeled.

Can I buy a clue?

> has to be an old version of HP JetAdmin lying around on 
> the internet somewhere.

I have a current version of it and it works just fine with
the printer ... the few times I have used it. But it does
not define printers and NDS objects. This HP thingy is not
the "Install Network Printer Wizard" which is what was used
originally. I have downloaded old versions of this back to
5, and I found a note somewhere on the web that HP dropped
IPX printer support in that release, and that 4 was the last
one to be able to do it. But, I have not found an HP INPW 4
anywhere to download.

> 3.  I though the password was set to something non-blank 
> when the print server created its object.

If that was the case, it was blank the first time I referenced
it using PSERVER (in what I knew would be a fruitless venture,
but I tried, anyway).

> 4.  PSERVER probably has nothing to do with this if you were 
> operating in queue-server mode. 

That's what I thought. But, it's been 6 years, so who was I to
say?

>  if you had NDPS as an available option in your tree.

It's a NetWare 4.1 box, so I don't think so & would not want to
mess with it anyway, on _this_ box. I just want it to work like
it did a few days ago. I really need all the jobs that have been 
accumulating on the server to be printed, to print. But the main 
reason it needs to work again is to support the set of PCs which
cannot connect to this printer via TCP/IP.
   
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WB


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