This is will be a new message but an old problem that was worked on before through this forum. Before you read on here, I encourage all who ant to help, please look at my prior two messages for a cursory look at the history of said problem. With that completed, please read on here:
1.) I figured out that a crossover cable really does not mean a USB to USB, but in reality, a regular old network cable. Duh, how we novices learn so much in such a long time!
2.) Have successfully mated a laptop running windows 8.1 x64 (Firefox browser, most recent release) directly to a Xerox Workcentre Pro 232 that is out of contract and out of development.I disabled WIndows Firewall for piece of mind as well. The main objective is and has been to access the CWIS. AND YES, HTTP/IPP is ENABLED. So trust me I have that covered. Secondary objectives include the ability to SCAN 11x17's.
3.) I am on the warpath of finding out why I cannot break into the CWIS, most of you believe at this point that the machine probably needs to be reset by a Xerox technician in order to gain access to the CWIS. But please realize that I picked up the copier for $300 at auction over a year ago now, in an effort to digitally scan my hand drawn artwork at 11x17 to help develop my business. And instead of paying Xerox $500 for a service trip, and running the risk the a technician not knowing any more that I do (prove me wrong), I will ever so be persistent in attacking this problem on my own BUT with deep appreciation of this forum and the talent on you all may have and are willing to share of course. And of course I am too stubborn to bring all my artwork to the local print house to be scanned there because that would make way to much sense. Stubborn can solve everything right? probably, no.
4.) I am now troubleshooting via direct crossover cable, have set the IP of the copier/printer (wannabe scanner) to 192.168.1.100 and my laptop (IPv4 to 192.168.1.101). Just downloaded the Global Driver for good measure as a first and fresh install on the laptop. I Downloaded Advanced Port Scannerv1.3, scanned and found it (the Xerox). But beyond that this program not so hot on the detail I need to understand the problem. Looked for variants of a port scanner and discovered this nice tool, Nmap-Zenmap GUI, this gets into the knitty gritty, and I will post the results of my first port scan here in a second.
5.) In summary it scans the ports of 192.168.1.100 and identifies 5 open/available ports, 1,5432,7000,7007,and 9100. And I feel like I am officially geeking out and I like it.
So now what? I know port 9100 is RAW and I am able to print through different devices on my network from different machines using that port.
Port 1 is construed as TCP and I think this is CWIS, correct me if I am wrong. No idea what 5432,7000,7007 mean. I think they are the OS on the drive? Firefox continues to tell me I can't have access. And with suggestion from another user here on the forum, I even downloaded and used Firefox V2 to side step the potential SSL certifications, but to no avail.
6.) Backing away from this again and sleeping on it from this weekend, is the CWIS actually on the hard drive or inside the copier? I was reading that the hard drive is mainly for temporarily holding files generated by the scanner or facisimile, and maybe this is confounding my problem a little bit. I bring this up because I wonder what a Xerox tech would actually do? Reset the hard drive? or reset the machine? Would the reset actually work and provide access to the CWIS?
7.) Another small analomy I am trying to understand is that the machine keeps redacting the Broadcast IP to 192.168.1.255 even though its actual IP is 192.168.1.100. If I leave it the communications with the machine appear just fine, coming up as XRX0000AA7B168E. When I go to the touchpad screen on the 232 and change it to 192.168.1.100 Broadcast, and port it again it comes up PIP-AG-XEROX232. It is strange.I think I know what AG is, when I purchased the machine at auction it came from the Agriculture Dept (Ag) at a nearby Tech school.
Last, I am debating on how else to communicate with the drive.I downloaded Knoppix and haven't done anything with it yet, but I am curious if this will help any with communicating with the Xerox in any way shape or form.
I tried Telnetting, that didn't work because port 23 is closed.
I am going to post my report from the Xerox and Nmap-Zen Map, here:
Thanks to all in advance of your efforts help solve this dilemma.
