Network printers

[BeornBear]

Does anyone have a simple solution in connecting a Network printer which has a different subnet mask and Ipv4 gateway?! It is necessary to change the printer to have the same subnet mask and gateway to work?! or is there a workaround?!

[BobVonBob]

What printer are you trying to set up? What are you seeing as the subnet mask and ipv4 gateway and what do you think they should be?

[skimmilk5]

It's probably just easier to move the network printer to the right subnet. Assign it a static IP on the same subnet.

The easiest way would be to allow the two subnets to talk to each other. You'll need to go into your network firewall's settings and allow those two subnets to either communicate both ways or to create a jumbo subnet (one subnet that encapsulates multiple ranges, mostly used for when you have a lot of devices). Are you ready to play with ARP routing tables? You could manually re-route the traffic destined for that printer by changing the routing tables on each client device, but it's an awful amount of work for something so petty.

[BeornBear]

Even when I assign the same subnet and gateway, I am unable to find the network printer on the router nor by attempting to add the printer with its IP address. Unfortunately, I do not have the admin username and password in order to change settings on the firewall. A static IP address would be easily done thereafter. 

[Robchil]

if it gets a different ip net and subnetmask when you connect it to a different port, that port has another vlan.. "virtual" lan setting for the port you are using, and are for you like having a different switch that is not connected or routed to the network your pc are on. 

 

to be sure it works, you need to talk to your IT technical person that set up that router/switch so they can set another port to the same vlan so you get the same IP range automaticaly, altho, for a printer i would set the IP static so it doesn't change around, on the network you are using, but the port has to be set in the correct vlan.