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My school has 2 routers, and 2 printers. One of the printers uses a network access point which connects to the router which has all of the PC's plugged into it. The problem is, we have 7 PC's and only 2 aren't connecting to the printer. Any ideas?
 
Please give some detail - like how is the network set up - OSs used - printer/router model. The info you have given tells us nothing.
 
The network setup consists of 2 switches used as routers for the printers each contains 8 slot plugins. Both switches are netgear and we use 1 full switch, the other one only has 3. I got them working temporarily by changing some wires to a different switch and installing printer drivers, this worked but the next day both computers stopped working again. We are using Windows XP Professional SP2 and Windows 2000 Professional SP4 on the PC's. The printer is a HP laserjet 4050n printer. The routers are: Netgear FS608 v2 and v3.

thanks.
 
are they switches or routers?

If you are using 2 routers, then they are 2 different IP segements. If these are 2 SOHO nat routers, then it's going to be very tough to do with 2 NAT/ROUTED segements. Instead, setup one of those as a dummy switch (turn off DHCP, don't use the WAN port, go from LAN to LAN port between the 2 routers)
 
I'm sure they are switches. I know they aren't routers because there is no reset button but these switches do give out different IP's however. All of the computers work it's just 2 of the 8 computers don't want to connect, now for some reason it seems like they aren't even connecting to the internet.
 
Okay.. clear as mud. 😕

Let's try this again. I just looked up the FS608 on the web and found a nice link with picture here: http://www.netgear.com/Products/Switches/DesktopSwitches/FS608.aspx

So it's definitely a switch, and it is NOT the switch that is issueing the IP addresses, so there must be some other box plugged in that's acting as the DHCP server, whether it's a router or some PC acting as a server with DHCP services.

Point is - we need a bit more information to help you out here.

 
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