Networking Issues

pf85

Hi All,

Ok I've a network set-up with 2 Mac's, 1 PC and 1 Printer..

The Macs are working fine and connect together and with the printer ok. My problem is with the Windows PC. I have manually set-up a connection to the shared printer via one of the macs using the ip address. This means that every time the mac changes its ip address I loose the connection to the printer and have to set it up again

Does anyone know of a better way of connecting this up?

SickBoy

Give the mac that's sharing the printer a static IP address.

pf85

SickBoy wrote: »

Give the mac that's sharing the printer a static IP address.

How do I do that if you don't mind explaining?

Thanks

SickBoy

Not sure how to do it on a mac but a quick google found this link
http://www.ehow.com/how_4547882_configure-static-ip-address-mac.html

Snowbat

There are usually two ways to do this.

The first way, as SickBoy indicates, is to tell the OS to use a specific IP address. To avoid conflicts, you should take a look at your router's DHCP pool and pick an IP address that is in the subnet but outside the pool. In the example below, anything from 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.99 should be safe to use. On Linksys routers, the subnet is normally 192.168.1.0/24 with DHCP pool starting at 192.168.1.100 so 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.99 should be safe to use.

The second way (the method I use) is to get the MAC address of the computer/print server/device that you need a static IP for. You can then configure the router to always assign a specific IP address to that MAC address (Static DHCP in the example below).

wolfric

doubtful the op has your specific router. Also unless the op has around 100 pcs floating around the dhcp isn't going to matter. rfc2131:dhcpdecline prevents dhcp colliding with static.

+1 to SickBoy's ehow link

Or....

Computers should have names. If you go to network on your windows machine you should find somewhere where you can list all the computers on the network. Connect your printer to \\name\printer instead of \\ip\printer and it shouldn't make a difference if your ip changes.

Snowbat

wolfric wrote: »

doubtful the op has your specific router.

I don't have a DI-524, I use a WRT54G. The feature is available on many routers.