Static IP for Network Printer in ICS

[Lance Cook]

Hi All,

Is it possible to configure winXP ICS IP scope, as above
I have a network printer with a static IP (192.168.0.4)
the printer does not support DHCP and I can only resolve
the MAC/IP address (at this stage).

Cheers,

Lance

 

[allan grossman [mvp]]

Hi, Lance -

I'm afraid Windows XP's DHCP scope is not configurable.

You can, however, do ICS with static IP addresses on the
workstations - if no workstation requests an IP address
there won't be any IP conflicts ;-)

Once you get all the client workstations talking, just
configure them to use a static IP on the same subnet, a
subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and the gateway address will
be the LAN-side IP address of the ICS host.

Hope this helps -

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Hi All,

Is it possible to configure winXP ICS IP scope, as above
I have a network printer with a static IP (192.168.0.4)
the printer does not support DHCP and I can only resolve
the MAC/IP address (at this stage).

Cheers,

Lance

It's OK to have static IP addresses with ICS. Before ICS tries to
assign an address, it makes sure that the address isn't in use.
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[Lance Cook]

Many Thanks, Have assigned a static IP and all seems to
be well.

Thanks again

Lance