Posted: 7/27/2005 3:51:05 PM EDT
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I have to install a network printer in a customers office to only one computer,it will not be accessible to anyone else on the network.Our printer has only a 10/100 connection and a USB port.The customers computer only has one 10/100 connection that is being used for their network connection.They will not let me just hook the printer into the network switch it sets right beside(long story),and only install drivers onto the one computer it will be used with and install it as not shared.It has to be connected directly to this computer. My idea was to have them install another nic into there computer,and hook it to our printer with a crossover cable,install the driver,not share the computer,and use a totally different IP address range than is used on their network.They dont use DHCP,have to be carefull not to use an address allready used for then extra nic in the computer.Long story short they are feuding with their volunteer IT guy,to the point they dont want this printer hooked to their network.Any reason this couldnt work? |
Yea,that is pretty much what my companies IT guy told me,however I didnt think of that the other morning when I was in the customers office,my warped mind came up with the other nic and crossover cable idea.I couldnt get ahold of the customer to get them to install a USB card in the PC and buy a USB cable,they are going to contact me when they get the nic installed.My question still stands,will my convaluted idea work?I only have an entry level knowledge of networking(net + cert and a few classes through my company on installing our equipment on networks),and after this lady went on about for an hour on how it couldnt be installed on the network my mind just went numb
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Their running windows 2000,however it is an older computer,I think it has been upgraded to win2k. Like I said,the customer was pissed as they ment to order a printer from us with a parallel port,had to splain to her that that the networked version dont come with a parallel port,this just seemed to piss her off even more.Between that and the rant about the IT guy after I said,just get me an unused IP address from your IT guy and I will have it hooked up in a half an hour,the nic card/crossover cable idea was all I could come up with.Thanks for the replies,sounds like it will work but it is the assbackwords way to do it 
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Exactly. The NIC and the printer can have totally separate, non-routable IP addresses, as they won't be "seen" the the rest of the network. -Troy |