Re: TCP/IP printing on a 16\600 AppleLaserwriter

[Bill <Bill@email.goat.com>]

Yeah, I saw this document too and came to the conclusion that replacing the
logic board or ROM's would be the only way to defeat the password. But I went
with simplest solution. Which is to share printer through the parallel
connector. I would have used appletalk but the routers are set up not to
forward the apple talk protocol.

Thanks for your help

Shah Reza.


Bryan Villados wrote:

> Your answer may lie in the following technical document:
>
> <http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n21242>
>
> Which seems like you won't be able to override the password without
> changing out the logic board. It looks like the password gets embedded
> into non-volitle memory. I've seen this happen several times when once
> there was a Postscript virus that would lock out a Laserwriter for
> good.
>
> In article <37E87F27.8F90DBC3@email.goat.com>, Bill
> <Bill@email.goat.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone no a way to reset the password on the telnet session to an
> > apple laserwriter? Of course the last person who configured the printer
> > is long gone and there is no simple way (like removing a CMOS battery or
> > jumper) at least that I can see to reset the password.  Yeah you would
> > think apple would have configured the Apple Laserwriter Utility to
> > configure subnet and default gateways. Any good guess will win you the
> > Hearty handshake and the pat on the back award
> >
> > Shah reza.
> > Shahreza@netzero.net