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That is also true - and today I learned something. That you can use a name on a remote outq. We have always used the IP but the IP was a static assigned DHCP address so never changes. Now if I could only get the server group to name printers with 10 character names. Then the OUTQ name and DNS name and the Windows queue name would all match :)

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:03 PM
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Subject: Re: All printers and their IP Addresses


True, but even so, if you hard-code the IP address into your DEVD or RMTOUTQ, you've defeated the point behind using DHCP in the first place.


On 6/11/2013 11:52 AM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
DHCP does not need to mean dynamic. DHCP can assign a static based in MAC address. So the printer would always get the same IP every time it boots.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:49 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: All printers and their IP Addresses

I've done many printers using DHCP -- never had a problem in 20+ years.

It's obviously important that if you use this scenario, you use DDNS to update the host name to point to the proper IP address, and that you don't ever hard-code the IP address into anything (which, you shouldn't ever do, anyway... that would be piss-poor administration if you hard coded an IP address into anything aside from a DNS server.)

The DEVD or RMTOUTQ needs to point to the host name, of course, in DNS rather than the IP address.


On 6/11/2013 10:48 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I may be off base here, but do printers ever use DHCP? If so, wouldn't
their IP address be rather, well, dynamic?

Why is it important to know their IP address? I could imagine the network
admin wanting to segregate printers on to their own subnet, or only allow
the printer subnet to do certain things. Like I think some barcode
printers used ftp to download labels and someone may want to only allow
ftp from some particular addresses.


Rob Berendt


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