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Hey, I'm trying to network a new pc and I'm having issues connecting to a printer (HP DesignJet 1050c). All the old computers that are connected to the printer are running windows NT and the new one is XP. I ran CMD and tried to ping it but it couldnt find it. I did the same thing in the computers with NT and they found it just fine.. Could it be because of the IP being not similar to the XP computer? I have 192.1.1.22 as the new PC and the printer is 169.254.186.220. I dont know a ton about this networking thing but I was under the impression that the IP had to be the same except the last digits... Can someone tell me whats different in the NT computers from the XP one im trying to connect to it. And so you know, the XP machine connects fine to the other computers...

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  1. Listen, if you are unable to connect, you really have to take the time to talk things out!
  2. 169.254.186.220 is generally assigned to an interface that hasn't been assigned an IP. If it is, your other computers are probably connecting to the printer via some other non-IP protocol like IPX/SPX or NetBEUI. XP does not support these protocols by default. Another posibility is that your computer has 2 interfaces and one has the 169.x.x.x IP and it's just getting a response from itself. In your case, you'll want to make sure all of your machines and printers are in the 192.1.1.1-254 IP space and your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. Better yet, it should be 192.168.1.1-254 since 192.1.1.xx are not reserved for private use. I seriously doubt your printer's IP is 169.254.186.220 and your NT machines are 192.1.1.xx. This would require a subnet mask of 0.0.0.0 (i.e. default gateway) and there would be no possible way you could connect to the Internet. Do an ipconfig on all of your computers and get their IP's. Make sure they're all start with the first 3 sets of numbers (assuming your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0). Assuming this is correct, your machines should be able to talk to other as long as they have unique IP's and there's not a bad cable or something like that.
  3. Basically everything has to be on the same subnet. Change all the IPs to the same range and you should be fine.
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