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Thread ID: 26290	2002-10-23 22:53:00	Network Printing always dials the net..	CYaBro (73)	Press F1

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92303	2002-10-23 22:53:00	Hi, I am trying to help a friend who works at a company with about 10 PC's all networked but just peer-to-peer. i.e. no Windows 2000 server etc. All running Win98. They also have a Brother HL-1270N laser printer which is also networked via built in network card. All PC's have a static IP address in the range of 10.1.1.??? The printer has an IP address of 10.1.1.101. The problem is that when some of the PC's try to print they always get the internet connection box poping up. Then they have to cancel that and then the printer prints. I have seen this problem before and fixed it by adding the printer IP address & name to the hosts file but it won't do it here??!! Any ideas? Cheers in advance!	CYaBro (73)
92304	2002-10-24 01:06:00	Change all the IP addresses to 192.168.x.x	antmannz (28)
92305	2002-10-24 03:05:00	The 10. series is also a non-routable range of IP address for local nets . That's not the fault. I suspect that the DNS resolution is wrong, and the systems are trying to reach an external DNS server, rather than the local (DHCP provided?) one first.	Graham L (2)
92306	2002-10-24 03:09:00	Mmmm.... Ideally, setup one of them as a DHCP server, the one that's connected to the web/printer host.	Chilling_Silence (9)
92307	2002-10-24 03:17:00	There is no web/printer host. The printer has it's own network card which you access and setup initially by installing the software that comes with it onto one of the PC's. The software then searches the network and finds any printers / digital copiers that are connected and then you can configure them with IP address / Appletalk etc. Once the printer has an IP address you then go to each PC and install LPR (which adds a virtual port with printers IP address) and the driver. It's like the PC's think the printer is on the internet for some reason. Even if you try to ping the printer it first wants to connect to the net. If you cancel that then the ping continues and gets responses as normal.	CYaBro (73)
92308	2002-10-24 03:21:00	So none are connected to the web?!	Chilling_Silence (9)
92309	2002-10-24 03:33:00	Sorry. A few of the PC's have a modem and internet connection set up. These are the ones that have the problem. The other PC's all have a modem but aren't setup for the net. The other way around it is to change the Internet Explorer settings so that it doesn't dial the internet when connected to the network. But then the users have to click on the internet connection to dial-up then open IE and they don't want it that way. They like it to dial up automatically!	CYaBro (73)
92310	2002-10-24 03:35:00	Perhaps they have the network mask wrong. They should have 10.1.1.0 ... if they have accidentally have a non-zero last group that would cause this.	Graham L (2)
92311	2002-10-24 03:40:00	Pardon my ignorance but where & how do I set this? Or check it?	CYaBro (73)
92312	2002-10-24 04:12:00	I'm ignorant of Windows (:D aren't I lucky?) , but it will certainly very close (probably on the same setup page) as the IP address of each machine. Something like Network/Properties/Identification ?????	Graham L (2)
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