install network printer with hostname

[hen770]

hi,


i have a network printer, which it is in an DHCP env and the printer get's an IP from the DHCP server, as far as i have understand in order to install the printer on a computer i have to put the hostname of the printer at the installation process and not the IP of the printer since it is prone to change due to the DHCP server.
my question is, how (or where) in the add printer wizard i need to put the hostname of the printer ?

or if anyone have any other solution it would be good, Thanks.

 

[Martyn]

The answer is to put it on a fixed ip address either reserved or outside the dhcp scope. A lot of companies reserve a range of ip addresses for printers and another range for servers/routers etc.

 

[hen770]

The answer is to put it on a fixed ip address either reserved or outside the dhcp scope. A lot of companies reserve a range of ip addresses for printers and another range for servers/routers etc.

in my strict env, i haven't such scopes so the solution that they gave me is as what i have wrote above, just to user the hostname of the printer, hence the computer actually go to the DNS server to solve that name and then get the updated IP of the printer, it is make sence.

the question how i am doing that ?

Thanks.

 

[Brandonjones]

Most printers should allow you to enter a host name on the configuration settings that are accessible by using a web browser. Find out the ip address of the printer. Open your web browser and enter the ip address of your printer into the address bar, press enter and you should see the configuration page. You may have to search around a little to find it. What make and model printer is it?

 

[Knightsman]

Actually you dont need anything but the IP address if the drivers are already installed. My experience is Printers dont typically change that often, but it is good to set the IP address in the Printer settings if possible, that way it will always try to connect via that IP before anything else does.

Depending on the OS, go to your printers, then to add printer,

Add "LOCAL PRINTER"

Then "Create a new port"

Then from there, add the IP, follow the prompts from there.

 

[Martyn]

Actually you dont need anything but the IP address if the drivers are already installed. My experience is Printers dont typically change that often, but it is good to set the IP address in the Printer settings if possible, that way it will always try to connect via that IP before anything else does.

Depending on the OS, go to your printers, then to add printer,

Add "LOCAL PRINTER"

Then "Create a new port"

Then from there, add the IP, follow the prompts from there.

If you do it that way then you run the risk of a duplicate ip address. To the OP if you just want to put in the hostname instead of the ip address you can but you then rely on name resolution to resolve it. I've done 100s of printers and the best way to deal with them as I posted before. I don't understand why you cannot do this through the dhcp server and reserve the address? Isn't there a sysadmin to do it?

 

[joydivision]

A good idea that Martyn. I've always made them static and hoped the DHCP server would not create duplicates, but I often make the IP of the PCs static too.

That said I've very very rarely had duplicates on my home system and that is extremely complex:-

Two routers (one with the modem), an access point with an Ethernet port (because laying a cable to that part of the house is too hard) and two network printers. It is all a mixture of static and DHCP and works fine.