setting ip address on 3100cn printer...urgent

hi dirkfour,

The printer doesn't really set an IP address, your router does (that's why the printer is on AUTO). If you have your router protected by a MAC filter, then you need to add the printer to the filter. Here's how (quoted from an earlier post I made:)

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What you need to do to configure the network options is first determine whether the printer is on the network. To do this: print out the configuration sheet for the printer (using the button commands on the unit itself).

From this you can learn the MAC (physical address) of the printer. You can also learn if it has been auto-assigned an IP from your router.

If an IP address has been given to it (that's usually 192.168.xxx.xxx. If it doesn't start with these numbers, and you're on a home network, chances are it's not receiving an ip). If it's working, then just open up internet explorer or whatnot, punch in that IP address, and you're talking to the printer. To set it up to print, go to the print manager, add a new printer as an 'local printer' (but not auto-detect!) and choose TCP/IP printer at the bottom of the window. When it asks, type in the IP address that printed up on the configuration sheet. The Dell CD that came with the printer contains the specific drivers.

If an IP address is not assigned (eg. it reads 0.0.0.0 instead of 192.168.xxx.xxx), then your router is probably blocking it, and this is where you need the MAC (physical) address you got earlier. You need to use your pc to navigate to your router configuration page (usually 192.168.x.1, where x is 0, 1, or 2). Once there, you need to make sure that you permit that physical address access to your network. You can also assign (with most routers) a static IP, so that you'll never have any configuration problems when the ip renew time comes up.

That's it. Please start a new thread if you experience additional problems.

good luck,

-oncall

well, I finally figured out that if you select the tcpip menu and then reboot it takes off the auto and allows you to enter a static ip address.  But, goodness....what I had to go through to figure that out!  There was nothing in the little manual nor on line that seemed to help.  I do appreciate the feed back and the attempts to assist me in this though.  Thank you and the others very much!.