2000 server web printing

I have been fooling around with windows 2000 server internet services. I set up a small server that has a printer attached to it. It has its own dynamic ip address and is hooked to the internet. The internet services in windows 2000 defaults to prot 80 for its web service. When I was goofing around with this I found out it worked great on our internal network - I could get to the website by ip address and then "*ipaddress*/printers" would let me see and install the printer on a workstation. I was able to print to it no problem over the web.

Now the problem - I found out I couldn't see outside our network(webpage or anyting). To make a long story short charter blocks port 80 on their dhcp servers. I was told by them that I could change the port to a non bocked port(they gave me a list of their blocked ports).
I changed the windows 2000 intenet services for the webserver to port 8010
now from ouside our network I can type in "*ipaddress*:8010" to get to the site. That works.
If I type in *ipaddress*:8010 /printers I get the list of printers and can look at them but if I try to install the printer from the web I get a "printer istallation failed - invalid handle" If you look at the address it give when it askes you if you want to install the printer it is missing the port number.
If I manually set up the printer using the address the websetup gave and fix it by adding the port address then the printer works.

Is there a way to fix the webinstall so it uses the right port address?

Thank you
sam

 

Also - I was trying to hook to the printer at home on my xp machine. installling the printer and manually typing in the path
http://*ipaddress*:8010/printers/hplaserj/.printer
will bring up a password box and I click on "use this username and passward" and type in my username and passward that I had setup on the 2000 server. It comes back with "you do not have rights...." I went as far as adding the username and password to xp. didn't help.
I have a 2000 pro machine at home and that worked just fine setting up the printer manually and using that address to the printer.

I am looking for a source for info on this through the web without any luck. I have a 2000 server book by microsoft press (very thick) but they don't seem to touch on it much.

thank you
sam

 

Sam - when you put in your 2K username & pwd, did you specify the name of the 2K PC as part of the username?

 

Hi newt
I think you are going to have to explain that better> It went right over my head. On the xp machine when I am installing the printer through the control panel It gets to the part where it asks for the internet address of the printer I put in
http://*ipaddress*:8010/printers/hplaserj/.printer
and hit next.
xp then asks me for the user name and password for the printer
http://www.electronicsam.com/password.JPG
then I get this error
http://www.electronicsam.com/error.JPG

My 2000 machine I did the same thing and it worked just fine with my username and password that I had set up on the iis server.

Are you saying that I should some how add the iis server name into my username? Confused.

thank you
sam

 

Sam - first off let me say I am shooting in the dark here for the most part. I've never tried to do a printer the way you describe. If anybody who knew what they were talking about had offered a suggestion, I'd have just read what they wrote. But since no one has, there are a couple of possibllities that won't take long to try and one of them just may work.

Sometimes it seems to help if you tell a server exactly where your account is located.

Here are the variations I'd try. Assume the server housing the printer is in MyPtr.com and on PrintSvr and your username on PrintSvr is sam. When is asks for username then put one of these variations:

\\PrintSvr\sam
\\*IPaddress*\sam
PrintSvr\sam
*IPaddress*\sam
MyPtr.com\sam

Also (and you may be doing this) try when you are logged onto the XP PC with an account that has admin rights on that PC and with the exact same account/password set up on the server with appropriate rights.

 

Newt,
You are a wonderful!

this
*IPaddress*\sam
as the username worked - it was the first format I tried.
I had never seen that before.
Now all I have to figure out is why the web install of the printer doesn't add the tcp/ip port(8010). Not as important.

thanks again
sam

 

Great news. Thanks for posting back.