Hi I have been asked to setup used IR3300 to be used as shared printer with Active Directory. I assigned right ip adddress with subnet mask and default gateway, but from any PCs within LAN i cannot ping the printer. I tried from the printer to ping PCs i could not. What type of IR3300's troubleshooting I can perform to find out where is the problem ?? Thanks

you need to have a driver installed on each P.C
http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/office/b_w_imagerunner_copiers/imagerunner_2200_2220i_2220n_2800_3300_3300i_3300e_3300en_3320i_3320n/imagerunner_3300#DriversAndSoftware
You need an ethernet network of computers
You need to set up the ip addess and subnet mask in the printer via its setup menu . At the very least a ethernet network Switch with static ip addesses for each device , or A router with DHCP server to dynamically assign ip addresses.
you need an rj45 socket on the ir3300 which it should have 802.3 ethernet 10/100 tbase ethernet according to ir3300 specs if it is missing you need a network card to be added to ir3300 by Xerox / Cannon

assign a static IP to your printer
(in your same Subnet mask Example 192.168.0.10 subnet mask 255.255.255.0)
Chek IP in your PC
enter menu-- settings IP
After:
Check the following
Printer Is Turn On
Is connected to Switch or router
next place the CD drivers or download drivers.
When ask Local priinter or Network printer
choose Network printer
The Software autocmatically detect the Printer with the IP asigned
continue the steps

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When configuring an address for the printer, the IP configuration might look like (just an example):

IP Address - 192.168.1.2

Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway - 192.168.1.1

It's important to note that even though you are not using any IP addresses in the default range for DHCP, the Subnet Mask and Default Gateway addresses will be THE SAME.

If you have another device on your network that will be assign a fixed address, you would use for example:

IP Address - 192.168.1.3

Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway - 192.168.1.1

For any other devices, just increment the IP address by one, 192.168.1.4, 192.168.1.5, etc and use the same Subnet Mask and Default Gateway.
(see the owners manual or site for steps on configuraing the printer TCP/IP information). This should take care of any conflicts.

Hi,
Can not really understand what exactly you have done. Please try the following steps:
1. Assign static IP on pc 1 as 192.168.1.2 assign subnet mask as 255.255.255.0. 2. No need to assign default gateway and DNS. 3. Assign static IP on pc 2 as 192.168.1.3 assign subnet mask as 255.255.255.0. 4. No need to assign default gateway and DNS.
Open dos and try to ping. In case if the ping fails then disable all the firewall on both the pc's and try again.
If you are running windows vista then in network and sharing center make sure network discovery and file sharing is enabled.
Regards,
Rashish

A router between your ISP and the switch will assign addresses to your PC, the printers, whatever you connect.

Or, if just the one computer needs access to the Internet and the printers, you can install/configure a second Ethernet port in the PC, connect it and the printers to the switch, and give them all static IPs in a private address space (e.g., 192.168.1.0/24)

I had fits getting it setup myself for wireless. Despite any efforts to use the wired connection to change the wireless settings, I just couldn't get it to work. I ended up printing the configuration page to learn the expected SSID and then changing the SSID on my wireless router to match the SSID the printer was polling for. At that point it acquired a wireless address properly. Because I was several hours into making it work, I never tried changing anything else after I got it working.

If you're running Windows, try running the Network setup utility. It will give you instructions on what to do for each step, and how to do it correctly.

I hope this helps!

Here are the steps to connect two PCs using a lan cable (crossover)--

1. Be sure that both computers are logged in to Windows.
2. Connect each end of the cat5 crossover cables in to the network cards of each computer.
3. Bootup both computers and sign them both on to Windows.
4. In order for both PC's to be able to communicate together, the Ethernet adapters will need to be configured with a static IP address and a common Subnet mask. As an example, assign one PC an IP address of 192.198.0.1 and assign the second PC an IP address of 192.198.0.2. Both machines should use the Subnet mask 255.255.255.0. Here's how to configure your Network Card: Go to Start>> Control Panel>> Network Connections>> Right click your Local Area Connection and select Properties. Scroll the list for the entry titled: Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Click the entry and select Properties. Under the General tab, tick the box titled: Use the following IP address. Enter the IP address and Subnet mask that you would like to use. Repeat the steps above for the second computer system.
5. Be sure that both PC's have a common workgroup name of 15 characters or less. Here's how: Go to Start>> Control Panel>>System. Select the Computer Name tab. Click the Change button. Change the Workgroup name. Repeat these instructions on the second computer ensuring that both computers are named exactly the same.
6. Reboot both computer systems.
7. Next, open a command prompt on one of the computers by going to Start>>Run. Type in: command [Enter] or click OK.
8. Type: ping 192.198.0.2 (if you are using the computer assigned with 192.198.0.1) press Enter.
9. Five replies to your ping should be indicated.
10. Once you get the two computers to communicate successfully together, you can now enjoy the benefits of file sharing, printer sharing and Internet connection sharing.

There are 2 ways to do it--
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3)Boot up both computers and assign PC,s the static IP add eg
assign one PC IP Address as 192.198.0.1 and another as 192.198.0.2.
4)Both machines shuld use the subnet mask as 255.255.255.0, Go to Start>> Control Panel>> Network Connections>> Right click your Local Area Connection and select Properties. Scroll the list for the entry titled: Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Click the entry and select Properties. Under the General tab, tick the box titled: Use the following IP address. Enter the IP address and Subnet mask that you would like to use. Repeat the steps above for the second computer system.
5)Make sure both PC's have common workgroup name eg MYGROUP, Go to Start>> Control Panel>>System. Select the Computer Name tab. Click the Change button. Change the Workgroup name. Repeat these instructions on the second computer ensuring that both computers are named exactly the same.
6)Reboot both the systems
7)Next, open a command prompt on one of the computers by going to Start>>Run. Type in: command [Enter] or click OK.
8)Type: ping 192.198.0.2 (if you are using the computer assigned with 192.198.0.1) press Enter.
9)Five replies to your ping should be indicated.
10)Now you can enjoy the benefits file sharing,printer sharing,Internet connection sharing, network games etc

THere are many things you must be fully educated on like DNS, IP numbering and subnet masking for different networks (for the different sites), TCP Port and Protocol (UDP, TCP) knowledge for different TCP services (you have to know what you want each network to have access to) and Public Key Private Key methodology, IPSec, PPTP and Routing.

THere are many things that can go wrong. FOr instance in your particular case I would assume that your router is not configured to utilize groups of users and then assign those same groups to different traffic templates. YOu need to make sure that your four locations are assigned a particular traffic pattern. Most allow what the other gentleman spoke of "remote access" but you need more of a open network amongst authenticated users.

Routers of this class generally work by allowing you to assign traffic to a very specific Port and direction assignment. For instance simply - http traffic is always on port 80. If you wanted your users to have internet HTTP connectivity you must assign port 80 incoming and outgoing to those users and assign that traffic to internal and external IP addresses by using Network Address Translation on the IP address of the external network. YOu also want to make certain that your Gateway for the remote users are using their own internet service provider account because sometimes uneducated people setup the internet access to be routed to the external ip adddress on the home router. In this situation you would have a remote user dialing the home office and then requesting an internet page from that External network, only to have that traffic then come back to the home router and then out again over the vpn to the remote location. All internet traffic should be routed to the local gateway of that locations provider. THose remote routers will allow this and then only file sharing and printing and other critical network services should be routed over the VPN itself.

As I said it is very complicated and I would definitely pay someone to do this for you and then walk you through basic configuration issues while they are there. You would probably pay in the neighborhood of about 100-150 an hour but for this level you would be getting a certified and knowledgable person. You could also call SonicWall and have them walk you through it for a fee. Watchguards fee is 500.00 to 1000.00 depending on sophistication.

I am sure this only confused you more but IP Routing and VPN traffic routing is difficult and even people who have been in this industry for a very long time find it difficult. You have to be in it and doing it all the time for it to come second nature. I believe your IP addresses are on completely different subnets or ranges. That is another place to start. You really need to setup your internal networks at all locations on the SAME NETWORK in order for them to speak to one another.

127.0.0.1 is one network that is publicly unroutable or 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.111.1. These are common netoworks.

I'll try to give you a short lesson this. subnet masks (the 255.255.255.0) number under the ip address in the networks section allows you to segment your traffic to only communicate to a certain NUMBER of computers.

An IP Address of 192.168.0.0 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.254 gives you zero computers. If you move the subnet mask to 255.255.255.252 you get 4 ip address but only 2 computers that can talk to one another. THe ip address in this configuration would be 192.168.0.0, 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3. The first ip address of any given network is ALWAYS the network address and should not be used (192.168.0.0) the next two ip address can be assigned to computers and the last ip address is always a "Broadcast" address for the network to speak on.

YOu could have started with another number to begin with for instance 192.168.1.54 subnet mask 255.255.252 and the same methodology would apply. 192.168.1.54 is the network, 192.168.1.55 and 56 are the computer addresses and 192.168.1.57 is the broadcast address.

If you want to have multiple computers at different locations you must all be on the same network with the same IP addressing scheme.

AN example 192.168.111.0 subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 would give you available address of 254 computers but 256 addresses (including zero).

The subnet masks are as follows for this network above (maybe you can use this)

192.168.111.0
255.255.255.254

Zero Computers only a network address and a broadcast address. Remember you only have 256 addresses in a range and the first is network and the last is broadcast so in this configuration you have 192.168.111.0 and 192.168.111.1 (only two addresses)

192.168.111.0
255.255.255.252

Two Computers 192.168.111.1 and 192.168.111.2 with network of 192.168.111.0 (first IP number) and broadcast of 192.168.111.3 (last IP Number) only two usable addresses but FOUR ip addresses.

192.168.111.0
255.255.255.248

Six computers with IPS of 192.168.111.1 to 192.168.111.6. Network of dot zero and broadcast of dot seven (192.168.111.7)

192.168.111.0
255.255.255.240

fourteen address 192.168.111.1 to 192.168.111.14
network .0, broadcast .15

subnet of 255.255.224
thirty computers 192.168.111.1 to 192.168.111.30
network of .0 and broadcast of .31

subnet of 255.255.192
sixty two computers 111.1 to 111.62
network of .0 and broadcast of .63

subnet of 255.255.128
One hundred twenty six computers 111.1 to 111.126
network of .0 and broadcast of .127

subnet of 255.255.0
Two hundred fifty four computers 111.1 to 111.254
network of .0 and broadcast of .255.

THis is one reason the actual computers wont talk to one another probably. ALL computers on the VPN must talk on the same Route or be ROUTED with the routers routing of networks options. to make the traffic move from one network to another.