I know this can be done, I have done it before, but I have forgotten
the IP setting string for doing it when configuring a printer...

I have a print server (router with USB ports for USB printers). My USB
connected printer shows as being LPT1 on the print servers config page.

The print server's IP is 10.131.97.175. Using Win10, I can add a
printer via TCP/IP, but from memory I need to enter the IP as
10.131.97.175 ????,
Where the ???? represents the fact that it is a LPT on that IP. Anyone
know please?

Maybe something like 10.131.97.175 -LPT1 or 10.131.97.175/LPT1 or
10.131.97.175-LPT1

On 23/03/2017 09:59, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I know this can be done, I have done it before, but I have forgotten the
IP setting string for doing it when configuring a printer...

I have a print server (router with USB ports for USB printers). My USB
connected printer shows as being LPT1 on the print servers config page.

The print server's IP is 10.131.97.175. Using Win10, I can add a printer
via TCP/IP, but from memory I need to enter the IP as 10.131.97.175 ????,
Where the ???? represents the fact that it is a LPT on that IP. Anyone
know please?

Maybe something like 10.131.97.175 -LPT1 or 10.131.97.175/LPT1 or
10.131.97.175-LPT1

Usually on win10 you go to add printer, choose IP and type in the IP
address and it finds it itself.

dennis@home formulated the question :
On 23/03/2017 09:59, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I know this can be done, I have done it before, but I have forgotten the
IP setting string for doing it when configuring a printer...

I have a print server (router with USB ports for USB printers). My USB
connected printer shows as being LPT1 on the print servers config page.

The print server's IP is 10.131.97.175. Using Win10, I can add a printer
via TCP/IP, but from memory I need to enter the IP as 10.131.97.175 ????,
Where the ???? represents the fact that it is a LPT on that IP. Anyone
know please?

Maybe something like 10.131.97.175 -LPT1 or 10.131.97.175/LPT1 or
10.131.97.175-LPT1

Usually on win10 you go to add printer, choose IP and type in the IP address
and it finds it itself.

I tried that and it didn't find it, but the print server shows it as
there.

On 23/03/17 09:59, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I know this can be done, I have done it before, but I have forgotten the
IP setting string for doing it when configuring a printer...

I have a print server (router with USB ports for USB printers). My USB
connected printer shows as being LPT1 on the print servers config page.

The print server's IP is 10.131.97.175. Using Win10, I can add a printer
via TCP/IP, but from memory I need to enter the IP as 10.131.97.175 ????,
Where the ???? represents the fact that it is a LPT on that IP. Anyone
know please?

Maybe something like 10.131.97.175 -LPT1 or 10.131.97.175/LPT1 or
10.131.97.175-LPT1

Depends on the print server. Jet direct style is 9100-9103, port 631
for CUPS style IPP and 515 for LPD style

Id start with 10.131.97.17:9100 and see if that works



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On 23/03/2017 09:59, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I know this can be done, I have done it before, but I have forgotten the
IP setting string for doing it when configuring a printer...

I have a print server (router with USB ports for USB printers). My USB
connected printer shows as being LPT1 on the print servers config page.

The print server's IP is 10.131.97.175. Using Win10, I can add a printer
via TCP/IP, but from memory I need to enter the IP as 10.131.97.175 ????,
Where the ???? represents the fact that it is a LPT on that IP. Anyone
know please?

Maybe something like 10.131.97.175 -LPT1 or 10.131.97.175/LPT1 or
10.131.97.175-LPT1

Easiest way is usually to install the printer as a local one, and then
in the configuration select TCP/IP port as the connection method and
specify just the address.


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On 23/03/17 09:59, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I know this can be done, I have done it before, but I have forgotten the
IP setting string for doing it when configuring a printer...

I have a print server (router with USB ports for USB printers). My USB
connected printer shows as being LPT1 on the print servers config page.

The print server's IP is 10.131.97.175. Using Win10, I can add a printer
via TCP/IP, but from memory I need to enter the IP as 10.131.97.175 ????,
Where the ???? represents the fact that it is a LPT on that IP. Anyone
know please?

Maybe something like 10.131.97.175 -LPT1 or 10.131.97.175/LPT1 or
10.131.97.175-LPT1

Not enough info. This mapping functionality sounds custom to the config
page. Is there a help link/button?

What is it? There could be a manual on line.

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On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:59:54 +0000, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

I know this can be done, I have done it before, but I have forgotten the
IP setting string for doing it when configuring a printer...

I have a print server (router with USB ports for USB printers). My USB
connected printer shows as being LPT1 on the print servers config page.

The print server's IP is 10.131.97.175. Using Win10, I can add a printer
via TCP/IP, but from memory I need to enter the IP as 10.131.97.175
????,
Where the ???? represents the fact that it is a LPT on that IP. Anyone
know please?

Maybe something like 10.131.97.175 -LPT1 or 10.131.97.175/LPT1 or
10.131.97.175-LPT1

The usual syntax for LPD connections is IPaddress/name, so in your case:

10.131.97.125/LPT1

But that;'s if you set up an LPD-style port (which I always do on
Windows).



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Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
Not enough info. This mapping functionality sounds custom to the config page.
Is there a help link/button?

What is it? There could be a manual on line.

The printer is an old Samsung CLP-300 colour laser USB printer.

That plugs into one of two USB ports on the print server, which is an
old Netgear WGPS606, on an IP of 10.131.97.175.

I have two other laser printers - an HP4000n 10.131.97.181 and an HP
colour 2600n 10.131.97.182, both with a network interfaces plugged into
the 606 and both working fine. Or rather the 2600n has some toner
issues, so it would be good to get the Sansung working.

I have in the past had the CLP-300 working via that 606, but on an
ancient WinXP system.

On 23/03/17 15:38, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
Not enough info. This mapping functionality sounds custom to the
config page. Is there a help link/button?

What is it? There could be a manual on line.

The printer is an old Samsung CLP-300 colour laser USB printer.

That plugs into one of two USB ports on the print server, which is an
old Netgear WGPS606, on an IP of 10.131.97.175.

Yup, there is a manual for that.

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Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
Yup, there is a manual for that.


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...and the manual, of which I already had a copy, makes a fine job of
describing the setting up of the router, but gives no clues at all
about how to set up the PC to print to it and even if it did, would
only cover up to WinXP.

Harry Bloomfield wrote:

the manual, of which I already had a copy, makes a fine job of
describing the setting up of the router, but gives no clues at all
about how to set up the PC to print to it and even if it did, would
only cover up to WinXP.

That's OK, network printer configuring ports in the Windows Print
Manager have barely changed since NT 3.1, either use lpr (where you need
to know the queue name, in your case possibly lpt1) or direct to a TCP
port (usually 9100) of whatever IP address the router has.

On 23/03/17 17:44, Andy Burns wrote:
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

the manual, of which I already had a copy, makes a fine job of
describing the setting up of the router, but gives no clues at all
about how to set up the PC to print to it and even if it did, would
only cover up to WinXP.

That's OK, network printer configuring ports in the Windows Print
Manager have barely changed since NT 3.1, either use lpr (where you need
to know the queue name,

L1 and L2

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Adrian Caspersz has brought this to us :
On 23/03/17 17:44, Andy Burns wrote:
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

the manual, of which I already had a copy, makes a fine job of
describing the setting up of the router, but gives no clues at all
about how to set up the PC to print to it and even if it did, would
only cover up to WinXP.

That's OK, network printer configuring ports in the Windows Print
Manager have barely changed since NT 3.1, either use lpr (where you need
to know the queue name,

L1 and L2

LPR and setting the queue to L1 worked fine, thanks all..

On 23/03/17 17:22, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
Yup, there is a manual for that.


..and the manual, of which I already had a copy, makes a fine job of
describing the setting up of the router, but gives no clues at all about
how to set up the PC to print to it and even if it did, would only cover
up to WinXP.

https://kb.netgear.com/47/How-to-man...etgear_organic

Just adapt the method for Windows 10, the eventual dialogue for LPR
settings are the same. Just need to drive to them through the wall of
"Windows 10 settings" that MS have stuck in to obfuscate and confuse.

There was nothing wrong with 'control panel'...

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On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:31:13 +0000, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

On 23/03/17 17:44, Andy Burns wrote:
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

the manual, of which I already had a copy, makes a fine job of
describing the setting up of the router, but gives no clues at all
about how to set up the PC to print to it and even if it did, would
only cover up to WinXP.

That's OK, network printer configuring ports in the Windows Print
Manager have barely changed since NT 3.1, either use lpr (where you
need to know the queue name,

L1 and L2

The queue name is not dictated by Windows, but by the porint server.



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On 23/03/2017 19:12, Adrian Caspersz wrote:


There was nothing wrong with 'control panel'...


There is nothing wrong with typing control panel into cortana and using
it if you want to.

dennis@home wrote:

Adrian Caspersz wrote:

There was nothing wrong with 'control panel'...

There is nothing wrong with typing control panel into cortana and using
it if you want to.

Right click start (or type Win-X)and choose control panel.

On 23/03/2017 21:06, Andy Burns wrote:
dennis@home wrote:

Adrian Caspersz wrote:

There was nothing wrong with 'control panel'...

There is nothing wrong with typing control panel into cortana and using
it if you want to.

Right click start (or type Win-X)and choose control panel.



Neither of which have control panel listed.
They may have had on previous builds but not this one.

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
...
dennis@home wrote:

Adrian Caspersz wrote:

There was nothing wrong with 'control panel'...

There is nothing wrong with typing control panel into cortana and using
it if you want to.

Right click start (or type Win-X)and choose control panel.

Yes - that works perfectly well. It's just a pain to have to do that instead
of being able to find the option in the place where it's been on the start
menu in previous versions of Windows.

I tend to use Control Panel instead of the Win 10 Settings for most things
in Win 10 if I can, because you can do mo Win 10 has all the less
mainstream options removed from most of the Settings apps.

I agree: there was nothing wrong with Control Panel (especially when you
turned the View By: Category option off and replaced it with View By: Large
Icons so you don't have try to guess which category a particular app will be
found under.

I stand by my assertion, formed when I first encountered Win 8 and Win 10,
that the only way to make them usable is:

- install Classic Shell to give a proper start menu

- enable Quick Launch and turn off Combine Taskbar Buttons so as to keep the
icons that represent apps that are actually running completely separate from
the shortcuts to apps that you commonly use but which may not currently be
running

I find it intensely frustrating to use my wife's laptop because she likes
her taskbar to auto-hide after a few seconds, whereas I feel lost without it
being visible all the time. She also prefers to enable the "tapping"
behaviour on the touchpad whereas I turn that OFF because I very often end
up inadvertently left-clicking on some random part of the screen while
moving the cursor from one side of the screen to the other which often takes
several left-to-right swipes of the touchpad. If I want to left-click, I'll
press button which is separate from the movement of the mouse pointer. But
those are personal preferences.

On 23/03/2017 21:21, NY wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote in message
...
dennis@home wrote:

Adrian Caspersz wrote:

There was nothing wrong with 'control panel'...

There is nothing wrong with typing control panel into cortana and using
it if you want to.

Right click start (or type Win-X)and choose control panel.

Yes - that works perfectly well. It's just a pain to have to do that
instead of being able to find the option in the place where it's been on
the start menu in previous versions of Windows.

I tend to use Control Panel instead of the Win 10 Settings for most
things in Win 10 if I can, because you can do mo Win 10 has all the
less mainstream options removed from most of the Settings apps.

I agree: there was nothing wrong with Control Panel (especially when you
turned the View By: Category option off and replaced it with View By:
Large Icons so you don't have try to guess which category a particular
app will be found under.

???

You go to settings and click on devices and printers
click on add printer and follow the instructions.
It couldn't be simpler.


I stand by my assertion, formed when I first encountered Win 8 and Win
10, that the only way to make them usable is:

- install Classic Shell to give a proper start menu

I used to use that but now I use the win10 start as its actually better.


- enable Quick Launch and turn off Combine Taskbar Buttons so as to keep
the icons that represent apps that are actually running completely
separate from the shortcuts to apps that you commonly use but which may
not currently be running

I don't, I find the blue underline enough to see which apps are running.


I find it intensely frustrating to use my wife's laptop because she
likes her taskbar to auto-hide after a few seconds, whereas I feel lost
without it being visible all the time. She also prefers to enable the
"tapping" behaviour on the touchpad whereas I turn that OFF because I
very often end up inadvertently left-clicking on some random part of the
screen while moving the cursor from one side of the screen to the other
which often takes several left-to-right swipes of the touchpad. If I
want to left-click, I'll press button which is separate from the
movement of the mouse pointer. But those are personal preferences.

They are also personal to you if you use different logins.

On 23/03/2017 21:17, dennis@home wrote:
On 23/03/2017 21:06, Andy Burns wrote:
dennis@home wrote:

Adrian Caspersz wrote:

There was nothing wrong with 'control panel'...

There is nothing wrong with typing control panel into cortana and using
it if you want to.

Right click start (or type Win-X)and choose control panel.



Neither of which have control panel listed.
They may have had on previous builds but not this one.

Even if you right click on the start button?


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On 24/03/2017 11:30, John Rumm wrote:
On 23/03/2017 21:17, dennis@home wrote:
On 23/03/2017 21:06, Andy Burns wrote:
dennis@home wrote:

Adrian Caspersz wrote:

There was nothing wrong with 'control panel'...

There is nothing wrong with typing control panel into cortana and using
it if you want to.

Right click start (or type Win-X)and choose control panel.



Neither of which have control panel listed.
They may have had on previous builds but not this one.

Even if you right click on the start button?


Even if you right click the button.

Version 1703 build 15058.0

I never used to access it by those methods so I have no idea when it
changed.

On 24/03/17 15:55, dennis@home wrote:
On 24/03/2017 11:30, John Rumm wrote:

Even if you right click on the start button?


Even if you right click the button.

Version 1703 build 15058.0

I never used to access it by those methods so I have no idea when it
changed.

They want to drive you to use settings.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...2-1c38031c69e7

BTW The next general release 'creators update' reorganises "settings"
and throws even more toys in the way of work.

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dennis@home wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

Right click start (or type Win-X)and choose control panel.

Neither of which have control panel listed.
Version 1703 build 15058.0
I never used to access it by those methods so I have no idea when it
changed.

Must be with the Creator's version

I knew they'd changed the cmd.exe shortcut into a powershell shortcut,
but didn't realise they'd cut other things out of that menu - why? It's
basically there for techies more than everyday users, and they are more
likely to want control panel than TIFKAM settings.

On 24/03/2017 17:46, Andy Burns wrote:
dennis@home wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

Right click start (or type Win-X)and choose control panel.

Neither of which have control panel listed.
Version 1703 build 15058.0
I never used to access it by those methods so I have no idea when it
changed.

Must be with the Creator's version

Could well be. 8-)


I knew they'd changed the cmd.exe shortcut into a powershell shortcut,
but didn't realise they'd cut other things out of that menu - why? It's
basically there for techies more than everyday users, and they are more
likely to want control panel than TIFKAM settings.



A techie will know how to get there.
If they don't then maybe they shouldn't.
What they would do with power shell and policies is anyone's guess.