Hi. I am trying to help someone and I am a database person so this is not my area of expertise and I am in a different state remoting in to try and help.
They wanted to set up a printer which I thought would be straightforward.
Printer is networked. Set up a tcp/ip but it couldn't find it.
pinged printer IP request timed out.
Then found out more info:
Their office is set up with 3 computers wired to router and one computer wired to switch which of course is connect to router. They are on Windows 7 and in a password protected homegroup
They have a person who works part time and when she comes in with her laptop wants to print to their printer and she connects wireless to their router. She is on Windows 8.1
When I logged into one of the wired computers, I saw they had a different range of IPs that included the printer. But on the person who works part time is connected wireless, her IP address is in a different range and different gateway (last two octets are different).
So the question is how do I have a wireless laptop print to the networked printer that is in a different IP range?
Is a static route the only way?
Does that open up security holes?
If a static route is the only way, I understand the syntac is:
route ADD "network" MASK "subnet" "gateway" -p
Do I need to add any hops?
so if I just did:
I know what to put for subnet
and I am assuming the gateway is the destination gateway (the one where the printer is)
but what do I put for network? the printer IP?
If there is another solution, that would be great.
Thank you!
All my best,
Kathy
They wanted to set up a printer which I thought would be straightforward.
Printer is networked. Set up a tcp/ip but it couldn't find it.
pinged printer IP request timed out.
Then found out more info:
Their office is set up with 3 computers wired to router and one computer wired to switch which of course is connect to router. They are on Windows 7 and in a password protected homegroup
They have a person who works part time and when she comes in with her laptop wants to print to their printer and she connects wireless to their router. She is on Windows 8.1
When I logged into one of the wired computers, I saw they had a different range of IPs that included the printer. But on the person who works part time is connected wireless, her IP address is in a different range and different gateway (last two octets are different).
So the question is how do I have a wireless laptop print to the networked printer that is in a different IP range?
Is a static route the only way?
Does that open up security holes?
If a static route is the only way, I understand the syntac is:
route ADD "network" MASK "subnet" "gateway" -p
Do I need to add any hops?
so if I just did:
I know what to put for subnet
and I am assuming the gateway is the destination gateway (the one where the printer is)
but what do I put for network? the printer IP?
If there is another solution, that would be great.
Thank you!
All my best,
Kathy
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