I'm trying to add a JetDirect printer using the Add Printer wizard. I may not be entering the host name correctly, because as soom as I enter it I get a "device not found" error. The wizard continues on to allow me to specify the printer make and model, but nothing ever prints.

What is the proper format to enter the host name?

Thanks...

confused

I use socket://192.168.0.10:9100

Nope; I get the same error message. :-(

Can you use a Web browser to use the HP Jetdirect print server's embedded Web server?

I have an HP 2200 Business Inkjet with JetDirect J4169A internal network card, and used the CUPS admin via http://localhost:631 to set it up, on my home network.

After setting the Name/Location/Description, I chose Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) from the list, and set the Device URI to ipp://ip.address.of.printer/ipp. Set the Manufacturer and Model/Driver and options and it worked straight off.

With HP's you will find alternative drivers, and I've found that th hpijs usually works fine, but that the chp2200 is more reliable if it is available. The CUPS + Gutenprint drivers have many more options, so are easier to get wrong

I've used the same principles with an Edimax PS3207U print server at my office, and that is fine. I previously set it up using the Windows tools from a Win2K box, and it was very flakey, but I redid it from Suse using the Web manager and the ipp protocol.

I am trying to do all this through the GUI tools supplied in SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1, because this is a corporate production environment in a Microsoft-dependent company (shudder).

So, much to my delight, I found that YaST has been upgraded to YaST2. Now it is cookbook-simple to add a TCP/IP printer. Works like a charm.

Thanks to everyone for your help. NBow if I could only figure out why I can't log on to the corporate Active Directory domain...

Wendell