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December 18, 2007

Hi Guys,

Am I right in thinking that administrator passwords can not be reset on G4 Laptops unless you erase the previous data and use a system disk?

Thanks in advance for the help,

A. Jenkins Wagner Middle School

October 26, 2007

Question: I am trying to set up a network printer using my laptop. I am connected to our network using my airport card. When I printed out the IP address from the printer, the address began with 192. I keep trying to add a printer with that address and it is not working. I looked at another network printer in the building and its address began with 10, and also when I used a network printer at the NWRO, your printer began with 10. Do I need my printer's address to begin with 10? If so, how do I do it? If not, what do I need to do to make my printer work?

A. Jenkins Wagner Middle School

Answer #1 192.168.1/0.1 is a standard network address for most home networks (Dlink, NetGear, Linksys). The district network address's use 10.xx.xx.xx, you need to find out what your printers netowork addess is and then add it using IP Protocol seen below. Depending on what type of printer you have, I press and hold the on button and it prints out a sheet that tells me the IP (Lexmark). Select add printer...make sure IP printer is selected. You can name the printer what ever you want,I usually name type and room number!

Press Add! Let me know if this helps! B. Lutz

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If it is a Lexmark printer there are menu options controlled on the front panel of the printer - and you need to manually enter a valid IP (the networking people can give you a range of usable addresses - and then also provide the mask and gateway info.... once this is saved to the printer you can type its IP address into your web browser's address bar and control most or all of its settings here = like turning off appletalk, renaming the printer, etc.... What kind of printer is it? In general, you just need to look up info on how to set a static IP for the printer and it should work fine... sometimes those 192.... addresses mean that the printer lost its settings over the summer, or that there is a network card problem...