On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:20:01 +0000, Huge wrote:

> On 2006-08-22, Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tfeb.org> wrote:
>> On 2006-08-22 00:09:46 +0100, Adrian <ady_hume@hotmail.com> said:
>>
>>> On windows, a wizard basically asked, a)what printer is it, b)whats its
>>> IP addy, c) it then worked....... Why is it so complex on Solaris??
>>
>> It's complicated because HP didn't employ a team of 10 people to write
>> the code to support it for Solaris.
>
> The Windows situation is *slightly* more complicated, because so
> far as Windows is concerned a network printer isn't a network printer
> unless it's an SMB printer, otherwise it's a local printer even if
> it's a network printer. Grrrrrr.

Ah, though I've configured them I didn't know why I had to
choose local then create a TCP/IP network port.