Today, I was on a tech support call with a guy named Jim. He bought a copier from us last week, and it was delivered yesterday. He wanted to set it up to run off of a "host" computer with a cross-over cable. No wired network was available. The other machines on the network would then connect to that host machine via the wireless network, and find the shared printer there.
So, we set up the copier with an IP of 192.168.1.100. We then set the host to 192.168.1.99. I didn't set the gateway on the computer, and as soon as I said that it didn't need to set it, I realized that I was probably wrong. But, I let it go.
So, then the computer wouldn't connect to the copier. We tried a few things, but then I realized that it was probably the gateway setting.
Just another slap the forehead moment.
Print | posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 8:00 PM