Dynamic Ips can change at any time. Just depends on how often they renew their IP leases(which is set on the DHCP server). For example, if a printer went offline for 4 hours and the lease renewal is 2 hours, that IP address can be given to another device before the printer gets back online.
But as a rule, all servers and printers should be static IP addresses. Doesn't mean that they follow the rules... Dan Goldberg From: 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2024 12:56 PM To: 'Dan Goldberg' via RBASE-L <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [RBASE-L] - Printer / RBase question - ping result You mean it might change from day to day? As I mentioned, all 3 returned the same IP address within minutes of each other, but is that enough to "prove" that it's static? Karen On Monday, September 30, 2024 at 02:52:08 PM CDT, 'Dan Goldberg' via RBASE-L <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Make sure the IT guy has the printers on static IP addresses. Shared printer IP addresses should never change. Dan Goldberg From: 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2024 12:48 PM To: 'Nicky Avery' via RBASE-L <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [RBASE-L] - Printer / RBase question - ping result That's what I was looking for, thanks! I will make up a routine for them to try Karen On Monday, September 30, 2024 at 02:37:24 PM CDT, 'Nicky Avery' via RBASE-L <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Karen, So we now know that the address \\andfile\whatever\<file://andfile/whatever/> resolves. Have you tried? ... | PRINTER_NAME \\192.168.41.253\HP4250<file://192.168.41.253/HP4250> LPT3 | TRAY ' Tray 2' Nicky On 9/30/2024 12:16 PM, 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L wrote: >From the 3 workstations that won't print, she did a "ping andfile" and the 3 >results are identical. I'm attaching a jpg that she sent me (I don't have >ability to dial into any of those computers). Looks like the ip address is >192.168.41.253 So how would I modify the print statement to use this ip address? PRINT Appraisal WHERE SalesID = .vSalesID AND productid = .vapprid OPTION PRINTER + | PRINTER_NAME \\andfile\HP4250<file://andfile/HP4250> LPT3 | TRAY ' Tray 2' Karen On Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 03:32:56 PM CDT, 'rehan wyne' via RBASE-L <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote: It is correct as Nicky explained, the \\andfile\<file://andfile/> is a name automatically resolved into network address of a device / server / PC by OS. Please share your ping result. But as you explained in earlier email, they are installing a network printer, which will be eventually resolved as local printer. In this case just configure your printer as a shareable printer and provide " \\andfile\HP4250<file://andfile/HP4250>" as a share name. Regards Rehan Wyne On Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 12:53:11 AM GMT+5, 'Nicky Avery' via RBASE-L <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Karen, the \\andfile\<file://andfile/> is not a name but an address on a network: it denotes some device, a server or a PC since it has a printer share. I'd start at a/the PC which has R:Base and won't print by pinging andfile from a command window (C:\ping andfile). Ping should report an IP address and 4 results. If andfile is unreachable, your problem is either that \\andfile\HP4250<file://andfile/HP4250> is no longer valid or the name is not resolving to the correct IP. If you can ping it, note the IP address ping reports and substitute that IP address for the name andfile in \\<andfile>\HP4250<file://%3candfile%3e/HP4250> then see if you can print from R:Base. Then let me know what happened. Nicky On 9/28/2024 7:45 AM, 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L wrote: So I have a client who tries to do hardware / network stuff themselves, managing to screw something up each time. I always claim to know nothing about this stuff (which is about 99% true) so I never offer to help. I want them to pay a couple bucks to their network support guys to do it right. Apparently they had power outage, and some of the workstations (not all) lost printer definitions along with other things. So the woman there tried to re-install the networked printers. My app contains several hard coded references to a networked printer for a certain report, like this: \\andfile\HP4250<file://andfile/HP4250> Somehow on the workstations she added the printer, but the name that shows in PRNSETUP is just the "HP4250". It doesn't have the network "andfile" indicator. If she picks that printer from Microsoft Word, it's able to find the networked printer and prints it. 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