Connecting workgroup to printer on another network

[ItsLuckyPhil]

Hi team,

our office was piggybacking off a network owned by another company in the same building. We just got our own DSL connection today and have changed our workstation IP's from 10.1.1.x to 192.168.1.x and switched off DHCP on the new router to avoid screwing their network.

Everything has gone great, though a fast, large shared printer owned by the other company cannot be accessed anymore as it is on the other network, and within a domain (we are just a workgroup).

Is their an easy way to send print jobs to this printer, or should I get another network card in the XP Pro "server" and configure it to the old settings, and use it as a print server??

Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out with this!

Kind regards,

Lucky Phil

 

[countrypaul]

Sounds like a simple routing problem. I assume that all your machines point to you DSL router as the default gateway. If so you might resolve the problem by adding a route to point to the shared printer.
You may find that the router will only allow one ip address on the interface, in which case it might be difficult if that is the case. A solution would be to point the router to the XP Pro "server" ( for 10.1.1 adresses) and add a second ip addess to the sever card in the 10.1.1 range.

Alternatively if the default gateway for you machines is the XP Pro "server" you could just add a second address and have it route.

Paul

 

[ItsLuckyPhil]

This worked great! Many thanks for your help - it certainly got us out of a bind : )

Regards, Lucky Phil