How to find out the IP add of the configured Network Printer?

[Sandip Ghosh]

Sorry Marc,

I should have alloted 8 points to you.

Sorry Elizabeth,

I should have alloted points for both of your reply. By mistake once I have posted N/A.

Cheers
Sandip

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Sanjay,
I didn't found anything in this file
/var/spool/lp/interface/hp_4050_1.

Well I don't need this ip because I know the ip of this printer. but I was trying to make sure it is right.


Sachin

[pap]

Hi Sandip,

you have to view following file in the machine /etc/lp/interface/Printer_name

grep for PERIPH variable and you will find the actual name for the printer that is present in DNS table.
now nslookup on that name and you will find the IP address of the printer.

Thanks,

-pap

[Sandip Ghosh]

Sachin,

Initially if you configured the printer through IP add, then only you will get IP addresses in those files. But if you configure the printer through hostname then you will not get the IP address on those files.

Sandip

[Anthony khan]

Sandeep, look in your /etc/hosts file.

grep printername /etc/hosts

[Mladen Despic]

Have you tried 'lpstat -s' ?
If the output contains hostnames, that's what the system uses, so you should be able to resolve with nslookup.

[Tom Danzig · Accepted solution]

/opt/hpnpl/bin/hpnpadmin -v