[Info-vax] OT: DEClaser 5100 printer, ways to connect without Appletalk

[Richard B. Gilbert]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> A quick, and possibly useful, test is to telnet to the printer's IP 
>> address and port.  
> 
> 
> And how do I find out what port the printer listens to ? Scan 32 billion
> ports ?

RTFM??  Seriously, how do you expect to configure the printer on your 
system without knowing the printer's IP Address and what port(s) it uses?

If all else fails, I have somewhere a program that will run through, I 
think, all 65,536 possible ports and report the number of each one that 
responds.  It does a "port scan" and may be absolutely forbidden at some 
sites but such a thing does have legitimate uses.  I recall using it at 
my last job to do a port scan on a copier that could also function as a 
printer.  It took about 15 seconds to test all 65K ports and list the 
ones that responded.  From then on I got a lot of use out of the 
printer/copier.