On 06/22/2015 04:27 PM, ken wrote:
On 06/22/2015 04:00 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:48:46 -0400 ken wrote:
- password is BLANK
Did you try typing the word BLANK into that field?
Yep. That's not it either.
When prompted for username and password, neither entering no password, nor entering no password and no username, got me in. Both of these (along with everything else I'd tried for username and password) yielded a "network error". Yes, although I obviously had a good network connection, verified by the fact that the webpage was there in front of me with the error message on it, verified also by ping and too by the solid-on blue wifi LED on the printer-- despite all this, the printer was telling me there was a "network error."
So I went to the printer's LCD panel and did a "network reset" (under "Setup" for others who may need to do this). Then, after configuring the wireless networking once more (had to do this two days ago after the semi-full reset), when I then went to the EWS I was prompted to enter a password, i.e., to create a password. This wasn't at all how the program ran the first time I set up this printer. Note also that there wasn't a blank password as default.
But at this point I entered no password, i.e., left that field empty, configured the password to be blank. Thereafter when I went to a page which was previously password-protected, I wasn't even prompted to enter a blank, null, or any other kind of password at all... the webpage just came up without having to go through the box asking for username and password. Quite different from every time before.
So apparently, doing the "semi-full reset" caused the EWS authentication process to go boffo: If the default password were indeed blank then (1) entering no password should have gotten me in, and/or (2) I shouldn't have even been prompted to enter a username and password at all... as is the case now that I've configured a null password.
So what is the default password? I still don't know. I still remember having to type into a password field something like hpadmin or admin86 before I changed it to my own choice of a password, so I'm still believing that's what the default password actually is (though a firmware update could change that). But I'm getting in to the EWS again now and that's actually what I was after to begin with. So I'm done... still curious and a bit mystified, but I'm done.
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, time, and energy. Hopefully this was more fun for you than it was for me. :)