On Thu, October 15, 2015 3:18 am, Joe wrote: > I think you just missed it, until Win7 there was a Telnet client. You > can install/enable one (genuine MS) on 8, I have done it but a while ago, > the details are out there somewhere.
Installing anything on the other guy's machine is asking for trouble; that is why I brought along my own laptop. And now I have the printer here. I plan not to go back until it is configured. > Either way should work, only 10Mbit Ethernet connections cannot do this > without a crossover cable That is good to know. > Network > Manager can be persuaded to create a new fixed IP address configuration > to set your laptop to something in the 192.168.1. network. If you do not > mark it 'Auto', NM will not attempt to use it without explicitly being > told to, or of course you can delete the connection after use. Understood. That is my project after I get a bit of sleep. >> So first of all I would like to know whether it is possible to >> connect a computer directly to a printer without a router to manage the >> connection. > > Yes. That is good to know. > A printer, being a server, generally has a fixed IP address, and > Windows will need to be given it. At the moment, the office has one computer and a USB inkjet printer. It appears to me that not many people today have a laser printer. > Modern printers often have an LCD > display through which configurations can be made. But not the hp2100tn. > I'd expect one with an > Ethernet port to run a simple web server for configuration. I have not yet found mention of one regarding the hp2100tn. > Best not go there... you shouldn't need to disturb anything. If the > router is indeed running DHCP, and that would be expected in this sort of > network, then you do really need to know its IP address range, for which > you will need to login with the admin password, but you don't need to see > it physically. I am beginning to regret that I got into this. The modem or modem-router is supplied by a small ISP which serves a rural region. The ISP may not allow the customer to change the configuration. > If this password is unavailable, ... > then try > setting the printer to the address adjacent to the router's. I though that likely is the case; the computer is 192.168.100.3, so the router likely is 192.168.100.1, so my plan was to try 192.168.100.2 for the printer. > If you really want to get fancy and you have admin access to the > router, you can set the printer to DHCP, note its MAC address and then > tell > the router DHCP server to make a reservation for a particular address for > the printer within its pool. It will then always give this address to the > printer, but by DHCP. Understood; I have done that from time to time. Thanks, Joe.
