Re: IP address conflict

Wy wrote:
"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OXNP3XSBIHA.4160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Wy wrote:
Thanks Lem for your reply. The print server is within that range. Should it be outside that range? I'm using WPA2 encryption.

I'm not doing anything when it happened. I woke up yesterday morning and opened the laptop and thats when I saw the error. I went in my office where the router is and saw the same thing on one of the desktops. Neither of them were in use when the error occured. So what I did was unplug the adapter from the router for 30 secs to get another IP addy for the desktop. I was pressed for time so I didn't bother with the laptop but when I got home last night I had to do the same thing I did in the morning.
The print server's static IP should be *outside* the range of addresses assigned by the DHCP server (the router). This is why you are getting the error. So if your router assigns IP addresses 192.168.1.10-50 for ex., make the printer 192.168.1.200.


Malke

Ok i'll try that when I get home tonight. Thanks Malke. Another quick question for future reference.
How can find out which systems are having the conflict?

Wy



As Malke and John said, you need to assign all static IP addresses outside the range of addresses that may be assigned by the router's DHCP server (and yes, I asked about encryption to rule out an intruder).

As for finding out which systems are having the conflict, that's why I suggested looking at the router's DHCP clients table. That table lists, by MAC address (which is unique to each piece of hardware), the IP address that the router has currently assigned. If you go to each of your computers in turn and run the command ipconfig /all in a command window, you can create a list of the MAC addresses (the ipconfig display calls them "physical address") corresponding to the different computers (actually to the network interface cards in the computers). With that list and the DHCP Clients Table, you can easily see what computer lost out to the print server (or vice versa, if the print server isn't always powered up).

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