Moving a HPLaserjet 6p Print server to another data connection on another floor.
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Talk to your IT people. You'll have to configure the server with a new IP for the printer queue, after you get the IP range for the new jack and get a new IP assigned to the printer by whoever handles those things at your job.
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You will be in big trouble if anything breaks then if you don't know how the network is setup. Find out what is doing the IP assignments (should be a DHCP server, or maybe a router if it's a small place), find out what IP ranges are on the jacks for subnets, then for printers you want to use static IPs so they don't change and cause issues with users not being able to connect to the printer. Assign the printer a static IP (which should be outside the DHCP range setup on the server or router), change the printer queue port setup to that new IP.
If this is all confusing, get some books on networking and go though them, should only take a few days to sort things if you have a computer background. Better do that before you have a failed switch or server and the place fully goes down for a week while people sort out how to do things.
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Printhelp, try this real quick. Take a laptop and plug it in a data jack near the print server. Find out what the IP is (cmd>ipconfig /all). Then do the same thing with the data jack where you want the print server to go. If it doesn't get an IP (eg 169.xxx.xxx.xx is not a valid IP. [strike]A 169 address means there is no connection with a DHCP server[/strike]), then you will really have to do some reading.
Edit:A 169 address means two things. A) No connection to the DHCP server. B) The DHCP server does not have a reservation for the MAC address of the said device
Edit:A 169 address means two things. A) No connection to the DHCP server. B) The DHCP server does not have a reservation for the MAC address of the said device
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Even if you get the IP it still won't help you much outside of letting you know the jack is good because the IP that the computer gets won't be the same as what the printer gets. And you will still need to logon to the printer server and change or add the new port for the printer. And you should really get the printer a static IP because if the IP ever changes, printing won't work until you find out the new IP and change the print server again.
IT is probably not where you'd want to cheapen out and have no support with. Basically it's like crossing your fingers and hoping the computers will just work as they are forever. You get someone that pulls on their network cord the wrong way, shorts out a jack and next thing you know you have half the floor not being able to work without anyone knowing what to do.
Get thee to some network learning books pronto! Or take a cheap adult ed evening class, may be better that way, a few weeks of a few hours a week and you'll at least be able to understand how networks and IP addresses work.
IT is probably not where you'd want to cheapen out and have no support with. Basically it's like crossing your fingers and hoping the computers will just work as they are forever. You get someone that pulls on their network cord the wrong way, shorts out a jack and next thing you know you have half the floor not being able to work without anyone knowing what to do.
Get thee to some network learning books pronto! Or take a cheap adult ed evening class, may be better that way, a few weeks of a few hours a week and you'll at least be able to understand how networks and IP addresses work.
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Actually it depends. If the PC get's the same IP address on two different floors, that means the two floors have the same subnet. Now if the IP of the PC and the IP of the print server have the same subnet (.8), he will be able to move the device without learning Networking. There's no viable reason the IP should change if they are on the same subnet. If the IP managing tool or DHCP server changes the IP on the same subnet in a mere 15 mins, there are more issues than simply moving the device.
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This is true, I'm used to working at places that have 2-3 subnets per floor of the building, if this company is running a Windows 2000 server and does not have any IT staff, they probably don't have enough systems for subnets.
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Right. Your worries are exactly why I asked to see IPs per floor. I work in the IT department at a University. It really depends on how the infrastructure was designed. We typically have 1 subnet per floor. But there are areas that have multiple vlans, like my office. A simple moving of ports and change vlans. For small businesses, I'd expect a few subnets with the majority of the staff on one of them. Then others for Admins, secure vlans, servers etc.
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