Internet Printing

[snapicus]

I'm having difficulties setting up Internet Printing. According to the requirements, all I need is IIS installed and the printer published in the Active Directory. I've gotten all this done. However, when I go to

http://www.server/printers,

no printers display on the page. Is it possible that since the printer is behind an HP mini print server it's not populating on the page or am I missing something else?

 

[jonwilbanks]

Have you tried \\server\printers.

 

[snapicus]

No, that doesn't work. The printers folder is empty. However, the printers are displayed outside the folder with the other general shares.

 

[GlenJohnson]

How are the printers set up? Are you using hpwebjetadmin to assign IP numbers? Can you ping the printers? jonwilbanks suggestion http:\\server\printers has always worked for me. Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting
MCP W2K
glen@johnsoncomputers.us



"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936); English writer.

 

[snapicus]

Printers are installed through TCP/IP on a statically assigned ip address. For giggles, I upgraded the firmware on the print server. Now, if I go to http:\\server\printers. I get the all printers banner but no printers display. Also, if I go to \\server\printers from a remote machine I only have the add printer option. But like I said before, the printers are displayed individually in the root \\server. If I weren't already bald, I'd be losing hair over this.

 

[GlenJohnson]

For giggles, I upgraded the firmware on the print server. Can you un-install the upgrade? Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting
MCP W2K
glen@johnsoncomputers.us



"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936); English writer.

 

[snapicus]

Yes, but I did that after all the other attempts. The firmware from before was some two years+ old.

 

[jonwilbanks]

What happens if you try

http://ip_address_of_printer

in a browser?

 

[snapicus]

It brings me to the web interface of the HP print server

 

[jonwilbanks]

Are you sure you have the printer shared on the Win2K server? If it's not shared it doesn't show up in the

http://server/printers

page.

 

[snapicus]

I kind of got side tracked off of this one for awhile, but I did get it fixed. Seems that the person before me didn't install IIS right or had done something odd with it. Once I reinstalled it, works like a champ now. Thanks for your help on that one.