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setting up network printer (public and private IPs)
I am on a big network at work. I want to setup a network printer (plug cable
directly into printer). The computers that will access the printer are all public IPs. When I plug the printer into the network and print a config page, the printer is assigned a private IP. I use a utility on a PC to search for the printer but can't find it. How can this public IP computer find the private IP printer? I do not know what to put into the subnet mask for the private IP that will allow printer and PC to communicate. If I ping the printer from a computer, I get no response. |
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setting up network printer (public and private IPs)
biff wrote:
I am on a big network at work. I want to setup a network printer (plug cable directly into printer). The computers that will access the printer are all public IPs. When I plug the printer into the network and print a config page, the printer is assigned a private IP. I use a utility on a PC to search for the printer but can't find it. How can this public IP computer find the private IP printer? I do not know what to put into the subnet mask for the private IP that will allow printer and PC to communicate. If I ping the printer from a computer, I get no response. Speak with your network administrator. People who are responsible for big networks at work generally don't take kindly to users attempting to put unauthorized devices on the network. -- Lem -- MS-MVP Apollo 11 - 40 years ago this month: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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setting up network printer (public and private IPs)
Can you not assign the printer a public IP? Check the printer manual.
-- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "biff" wrote in message ... I am on a big network at work. I want to setup a network printer (plug cable directly into printer). The computers that will access the printer are all public IPs. When I plug the printer into the network and print a config page, the printer is assigned a private IP. I use a utility on a PC to search for the printer but can't find it. How can this public IP computer find the private IP printer? I do not know what to put into the subnet mask for the private IP that will allow printer and PC to communicate. If I ping the printer from a computer, I get no response. |
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