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I had one while I was living with my dad, and got used to not having to walk to the printer, plug in the laptop and wait.  Over the weekend I ordered a refurbished Netgear PS121 USB Mini Print Server for cheap and got it up and running in minutes not counting my fruitless searches to find the default log-in and password.

Hopefully this page will rank high for those searching for the default log-in, password, and settings of their new Netgear print server.  I am using CUPS on Linux.  Right now using Ubuntu, and Gentoo primarily.

By default it uses DHCP to request an available address from your network.

Also by default the user-name is “admin” and password, “password” both with no quotes.

LPR Queue name “P1”

IPP URL “http://ip:631/ipp/p1” (Connects; unable to print; reason below)

AppSocket/HPJetDirect “socket://ip:9100/p1” (Works; Read Update Below.)

Also to print a test page, hold down the reset button for 2 seconds.

To reset back to factory default settings, hold down the reset button for 10 seconds.

The web based configuration tool for the Netgear isn’t that involved, and certainly isn’t as “smart” as the banner proclaims it.  There isn’t even a way to control jobs via the web interface.   If you do not know how to configure your DHCP server to assign a static IP address reservation, the only important thing to configure security wise is the password.

After a quick nmap scan of the new device on my network, it revealed several open ports which you may want to firewall from outside networks as there is no password authentication required to telnet, or print to the device.

PORT     STATE SERVICE
23/tcp   open  telnet
80/tcp   open  http
139/tcp  open  netbios-ssn
515/tcp  open  printer
631/tcp  open  ipp
9100/tcp open  jetdirect

UPDATE:

I’ve had the printer server for about a month now, and I have to say that it pretty much sucks.  I would not recommend it to anyone.  I haven’t really been able to print anything reliably without multiple attempts or wasting paper from printing garbage.  I have only had luck with the AppSocket/HPJetDirect, LPR/LPD methods.  I have not been able to get IPP to work either.  This post from 2005 confirms it’s apparently by design.  Pretty lame.