QueBert
Lifer
I can't believe how rusty I am about setting up Print Servers. Any ways I was walking somebody threw the configuration of one over the phone today and was having troubles. They don't know a whole lot about their setup at the office. They have 4 pc's, which are not networked.
They have a Netopia cayman 3000 broadband gateway router, and a Hawking technology ps12u 1 par. 2 usb internet print server
They have SBC Yahoo DSL, with 4 systems on it. I thought it was static (they told me this) but as I had him check it looks like DHCP with static (does that even exist hehe?) They have 4 IP's and whoever connects first gets the lowest ip. I don't understand this method over punching a straight static IP in a PC, but that is what the SBC tech who was out told them.
I feel really stupid not knowing this, but it's been so long since I fooled with a router I forgot. We installed the print server software and configured it to use DHCP, it found the print server as a USB device and showed it as "off-line" I told him to add a new printer and create a new local printer with tcp/ip as the port. We set up the tcp/ip with the IP info SBC gave to him. With the "static ip" not the "gateway IP" I then told him to connect to the printer to configure it (web based) and stupid me, it connected to his router.
This is where I feel so dumb, how do I get him to be able to connect to the print server. I am not 100% he even needs to cofig the print router, but as it stands we cannot print.
anyone care to refresh my memory. This shouldn't be a hard thing at all, I am upset that it's getting the best of me.
They have a Netopia cayman 3000 broadband gateway router, and a Hawking technology ps12u 1 par. 2 usb internet print server
They have SBC Yahoo DSL, with 4 systems on it. I thought it was static (they told me this) but as I had him check it looks like DHCP with static (does that even exist hehe?) They have 4 IP's and whoever connects first gets the lowest ip. I don't understand this method over punching a straight static IP in a PC, but that is what the SBC tech who was out told them.
I feel really stupid not knowing this, but it's been so long since I fooled with a router I forgot. We installed the print server software and configured it to use DHCP, it found the print server as a USB device and showed it as "off-line" I told him to add a new printer and create a new local printer with tcp/ip as the port. We set up the tcp/ip with the IP info SBC gave to him. With the "static ip" not the "gateway IP" I then told him to connect to the printer to configure it (web based) and stupid me, it connected to his router.
This is where I feel so dumb, how do I get him to be able to connect to the print server. I am not 100% he even needs to cofig the print router, but as it stands we cannot print.
anyone care to refresh my memory. This shouldn't be a hard thing at all, I am upset that it's getting the best of me.
