CHALLENGE: Printer to Switch to MacBook to Cell's data to Internet

[Shaare]

Greetings,

Your LEGO pieces:

• my work cell (Bell Canada) and its delicious unlimited data,
• a NetGear GS105Ev2 switch,
• a MacBook with an ethernet jack,
• a Xerox Versant 80 with bustled Fiery (configureable ipv4 printer)
• and cables to connect everything.

The printer has an ethernet jack and can be configured to have an ip, subnet, gateway, dns.

The Challenge: You need to set these up so that the printer can do its scan to email test.

I have no resources to talk to, this is far outside my purview and yet falls on me.
I'm using the mac to share the internet on the cat5 that it gets from the wifi using the phone's hotspot.
I tried to leave the gateway blank, and put everything on the same ip base and subnet (192.168.0.x, 255.255.255.0).
Tried substituting the printer with a windows 10 box and the mac can see the windows but not the other around.
Everyone can see the switch. Do I need the switch? Or a router? Can I connect directly the printer to the mac's ethernet port?

After three hours, of personal time, I admit I am failing, and ask for your help.
My brain is, regrettably, fried.

Challenge accepted?

Sincerely,

Shaare from Vancouver

 

[JackMDS]

Put on your Win 10 Box this free portable App.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/winscan2pdf.html

Connect the Printer/Scanner to Win 10.

Use Win2pdf to generate a pdf file on Win 10

Email/copy the pdf file to wherever you need to.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Can you provide the steps and config you're currently using?

This doesn't seem to be that difficult based on google hits..

Read this link, it's detailed on how to share the wifi, so backwards of the way you want....but same general thing...

http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/05/enable-internet-sharing-mac-os-x/

Everyone can see the switch. Do I need the switch? Or a router? Can I connect directly the printer to the mac's ethernet port?

You don't need the switch, but can use it to expand the network created on the Mac's LAN

Router? don't bother, but if you have an old one you can configure it to be a WAP in the LAN you created on Mac's LAN

 

[sdifox]

Doesn't the versant san to email in the first place? You just need to configure its addr book or manually type it.

Not like you can avoid walking to the machine to put in the document you want to scan. You can just email it to yourself then conpose the email you want to send with the attached pdf.