On 3/5/10 12:40 PM, [email protected] wrote:
There you go giving me helpful advice (thank you!) when it's been a few weeks since I tried this. However, IIRC, my DNS server (provided by my router) assigned the IP address. I was able to log into the router and find the printer in the list of IP assignments, I think. Which implies that ethernet is working at some level.
Not DNS, SoHo Routers provide DHCP which hands out IP addresses from a pool.
DNS (Domain Name Service) is the server that looks up domain names (ie. www.lowendmac.com) and turns it into an numeric IP address. Routers don't generally have a DNS server but they do frequently pass DNS requests on to the ISP's server.
Is the IP address in your local address space? This is very important, because if it's not, you can't get to it, and none of the following things will work. If this is the case, tell me what the subnet mask
If the IP address the printer has did indeed show up in the list of DHCP assigned addresses then it should certainly be in the local subnet and therefore be accessable to you.
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