[Cialug] OT: Printing to a network printer

[Matt Stanton]

Sometimes you can get config values by wading through fifteen levels of 
printer options.  HP laserjet printers usually have a way of printing 
out their network configs.  Otherwise, I generally just check out the 
ips assigned to mac addresses in my router.  You can usually get a list 
of these mappings if you check out the mac address filter area of your 
router's security options.  I have most of the compturs in the house set 
up to use static ips, so I just find the values that are using ips from 
the DHCP ip range.  Each entry in the list of currently-connected mac 
addresses usually has the ip address and hostname of the device, and 
printers' hostnames are usually look like a random string of 
characters.  Both of the printers on my network are HP printers, and bot 
of their hostnames start with HP.

-Matt

Morris Dovey wrote:
> Dan Schlichting wrote:
>> Did you try useing ip address or try adding a network port for that 
>> printer?
>
> No to both. In the first case because I don't know how to discover 
> what it is, and in the second because all of the installed 
> applications (including Thunderbird) are finding the existing 
> connection without problem.
>
> The /real/ problem is total ignorance on my part. :(
>
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