On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 03:45:24 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Thu, October 15, 2015 3:18 am, Joe wrote: > > > 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.
nmap <IP address of printer> > > 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. Fit the printer to the router - not the router to the printer. > > 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. The factory defaults for the printer will use DHCP. Let it and the router sort out an address. This involves much less expenditure of time.
