| On Tuesday 28 April 2009 09:45:28 am Dotan Cohen wrote: > In KDE 3 the user could scan an IP range for printers. As my D-Link > DIR-320 gives the printer a different address whenever the router > looses power, I simply told KDE 3 to scan 192.168.0.* for printers and > it found my printer. KDE 4 does not seem to have this ability, > furthermore, the only way to get the IP address of the printer out of > the router is through an EXE file that the router provides for > configuring Windows machines: not a solution for me! Is there some > other way that I could scan the network for printers, even from a > shell script, to get the correct IP address? > > Thanks in advance. I network a scanner and printers on a static IP network but have always wonderd about having to do this with dhcp and here http://www.linuxprinting.org/~till/printing-tutorial/tut.html it explains how to do it on the router about halfway down the page. You say sometghing about access via an exe file but dowsn't you DLink have a web interface for configuration Cheers, http://turtlespond.net http://rickmiles.com.au |
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