Peer-to-Peer

[Rick Miller_6]

I am trying to set up an HP 4000 N on a Windows 98 Peer-to-peer network.
JetAdmin will not work. The printer was hooked to a PC via LPT port. It has a
JedDirect card. What protocols are required for it to operate? I am trying to
use default IP address of 192.0.0.192. Do I need a subnet mask? This is an
internal network and no internet access is provided. I left default gateway
0.0.0.0.
I cannot ping this address. Should WINS be disabled? DHCP? There is no server
so DHCP should be disabled yes! When JetAdmin is started it finds the printer
is not configured, sees the hardware address but will not complete the process.
HELP!!!

[Sachin Patel_2]

Hi Rick,
I think you need default gateway if your destination is more then one hop.
on client: try to capture printer port LPT1. i.e local LPT1 is then virtually
map to servers share printer.

Sachin

[Fernando Santana]

In your case, you can delete the default route so it doen't cause future
confusions. Then for each host or printer you want to reach, you would have to
add routes where the hot count is "0". This tells the system that this is a
direct route from the source host to the destination.

Example:

/usr/bin/route add host PrinterIP ThisHostIP 0

Then output of netstat -rn should look like:


PrinterIP host UH "Route to a remote host
directly from the local host"

I've never tried it but, good lock!!

[Frederick Wong]

Hi Fernando,

I have a related question...

The "route add" command can only add the route temporary, it will be gone when
the system reboot.

Do you know how to add the route mapping permanently in HPUX?

Thanks.