When the DNS can't be reached you need to have the
server's host name in your local-LAN accessing
client's hosts file. Either way, the client hosts
file will be checked first before DNS access (this is
true for Windows OSs at least), so because of this you
can use any name in your local client, i
Can you get hold of a simpler printer, one that uses
the HP500 driver for example, and test your port? I
tend to think it's a driver issue, at least until you
can rule it out. I've had this problem on a NetBSD
system, for example, which got solved by switching to
just such a simpler printer an
