[X4U] IP address

[Paul Moortgat]

It now seems that all Macs have to be in a PC network from OS 9.  Any  
thoughts about this?

Paul Moortgat

On 09 Sep 2005, at 15:01, Johns Maillist wrote:

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> On Sep 9, 2005, at 8:50 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote:
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>> All have ethernet connections but they can't see each other while  
>> hooked on the hospital server.  They're also told by that dealer  
>> that it should work with an IP address.
>> But it doesn't work.  All the help on the Apple site about network  
>> didn't help them either.
>>
> You say they all have ethernet connections, but I will assume you  
> mean internet connection If not, well, that does not help at all.
> If they can see the internet, through the router, they have IP  
> addresses, and they would have been assigned by a DHCP server on  
> the network somewhere, or a big coincidence has happened.
> But, not seeing other machines on the network is going to be a  
> permissions/sharing set up issue.
> The labs network tech/administrator needs to go into the router to  
> make sure they are not locked out, and that the other machines on  
> the network have shares enabled.
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>
>> The strange thing is that they can print from some Macs, but only  
>> in black.  If they ask color, the printing is interrupted.
>>
> This is a totally different issue, not really network related in my  
> opinion. If they can print at all, they are reaching the printer,  
> and there is something with the printer or print software on the  
> system.
> Another question, are these printers all on one print server or  
> different machines.
>
> HTH,
> J