Hooking a networked printer to a Solaris 10 system

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Jeffery Small

I just purchased a new LaserJet 4250dtn printer and am trying to get
it configured on my LAN to be spooled from my Solaris 10 system. All
devices on the lan have fixed IP addresses and there is no bootpd service
running. I already have a HP755CM plotter configured on the network. I
previously did this using the HP JetDirect Printer Installer for UNIX
(Version E.10.34). However when I use this tool now, it prompts for:

1: The JetDirect's LAN Hardware (MAC) Address: (got it from the printed
configuration page off the printer)

2: The LAN IP address for the printer:

3: The new host name for the printer:

I enter this information and then the program constantly responds:

The address "xxx.xxx.xx.xx" has an existing entry in /etc/bootptab!

It doesn't matter what IP address I specify, this message is always
displayed and the program terminates. I'm going to look into the nature of
this confusing error further, but I was wondering if there were any other
tricks that people are using to get these networked HP printers configured
with the proper IP address. The HP software also previously created a /dev
entry which was then used as the output device for the plotter. What other
alternatives are there for configuring the lp system? Is it as simple as
assigning the netstandard model to this new printer definition?

Thanks for any insights you can offer. I have received zero help from the
folks at HP.

Regards,
 
I just purchased a new LaserJet 4250dtn printer and am trying to get
it configured on my LAN to be spooled from my Solaris 10 system.  All
devices on the lan have fixed IP addresses and there is no bootpd service
running.  I already have a HP755CM plotter configured on the network.  I
previously did this using the HP JetDirect Printer Installer for UNIX
(Version E.10.34).  However when I use this tool now, it prompts for:

1: The JetDirect's LAN Hardware (MAC) Address:  (got it from the printed
   configuration page off the printer)

2: The LAN IP address for the printer:

3: The new host name for the printer:

I enter this information and then the program constantly responds:

  The address "xxx.xxx.xx.xx" has an existing entry in /etc/bootptab!

It doesn't matter what IP address I specify, this message is always
displayed and the program terminates.  I'm going to look into the natureof
this confusing error further, but I was wondering if there were any other
tricks that people are using to get these networked HP printers configured
with the proper IP address.  The HP software also previously created a /dev
entry which was then used as the output device for the plotter.  What other
alternatives are there for configuring the lp system?  Is it as simple as
assigning the netstandard model to this new printer definition?

Thanks for any insights you can offer.  I have received zero help from the
folks at HP.

Regards,
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HPs are usually the "easiest" to set up

Steps:

1) Locate the current IP address of this printer
2) In IE or FF, http://<IP address>
3) Re-configure the IP address settings so it is now longer getting IP
addresses from DHCP. Assign a "static" network IP address to the
printer.
4) In any system, set up spooling and define a "remote" printer with
the printers IP address
a) CUPS ???
b) LPR / LPD
c) LPRng

d) netcat
 
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