How can I get IP address of a printer which i connect directly to a network hub?

Question

I want to get and set a Ip address for a printer that directly connect to the network hub or router.

Answer 1

network printer usually come with software that detects them on the net even without knowing the ip.
if that's not the case, scan your network and find a esponsive ip wich you have not asigned. you can use freeware superscan3 for that.

Answer 2

Sure. A printer just connects to the network like any other device or computer, so it will work fine with a hub or switch. That's for the most part the whole intent of a hub, to allow multiple devices to connect to the network. I can't tell from the image what your goal is exactly. By sharing over the network are you asking only about the printer? It will depend on how the VLAN is set up. I don't know a whole lot about them, but I do know that they allow different sets of devices/computers all on the same local network to be isolated from each other as if they weren't connected. Essentially only equipment on the same VLAN as the printer would be able to access it, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a way to allow all VLANS access to the port your hub is on. I'm not positive on that though. Since there isn't a server in the picture, you'd just need to print a test page from the printer to get the IP address and use that when setting up a PC to print to it. What I don't see in the image is how IP addresses are handled. Something will need to give the printer an IP address or else you can manually assign it one yourself. But everything on the network needs to have a proper IP address, so I assume that something else is already handling it? In which case the printer will automatically get one and you just need the test page to find out what address it received.

Answer 3

Assuming that it is a true network printer, you could get it from the printer. Check the user guide and see what button sequence you need to press for the printer to spit out its configuration.


Pull up the configuration for the DHCP server. That should contain a list of the IP addresses assigned to each host name.


If it a print server set up with a static I.P. then you have a problem. If it is working you might be able to work out the IP address form the printer port details.