Question : HP Network Printer Not Accessible From One Workstation

I have a home network with 6 workstations, 2 virtual machines running under VMWare, and 1 HP network printer.  All are DHCP except the printer which is fixed 192.168.1.11. On the newest workstation ("T500"), initially I installed the printer driver and all was well, but suddenly I can no longer print to the printer.  My specific question is: how do I restore printing functionality?

The apparent reason I cannot print is that 192.168.1.11 is no longer visible to T500, although it is visible to all other workstations.  I did not knowingly change anything on the system related to networking, but obviously something changed.

I ran Solarwinds IP Address Tracker from both the T500 and another workstation ("P30g2"):

P30g2:

      192.168.1.1      Available                   
      192.168.1.2      Available                   
      192.168.1.3      Available                   
      192.168.1.4      Used            P13G            
      192.168.1.5      Used            P30G            
      192.168.1.6      Used            Z30G            
      192.168.1.7      Used            p30g2.cable.rcn.com      
      192.168.1.8      Available                   
      192.168.1.9      Used            R31            
      192.168.1.10      Used            VM-ACCOUNTS      
      192.168.1.11      Used            (no name - type = HP-Jet-Direct)            
      192.168.1.12      Available                   
      192.168.1.13      Available                   
      192.168.1.14      Available                   
      192.168.1.15      Available                   
      192.168.1.16      Used            T500            
      192.168.1.17      Available                   
      192.168.1.18      Available                   
      192.168.1.19      Available                   
      192.168.1.20      Used            VM-COBOL-IT      

T500:

      192.168.1.1      Available                   
      192.168.1.2      Available                   
      192.168.1.3      Available                   
      192.168.1.4      Used            P13G             
      192.168.1.5      Used            P30G             
      192.168.1.6      Used            Z30G             
      192.168.1.7      Used            P30G2             
      192.168.1.8      Available                   
      192.168.1.9      Used            R31             
      192.168.1.10      Used            VM-ACCOUNTS       
      192.168.1.11      Available                   
      192.168.1.12      Available                   
      192.168.1.13      Available                   
      192.168.1.14      Available                   
      192.168.1.15      Available                   
      192.168.1.16      Used            T500.cable.rcn.com       
      192.168.1.17      Available                   
      192.168.1.18      Available                   
      192.168.1.19      Available                   
      192.168.1.20      Used            VM-COBOL-IT      

As you can see, the T500 sees all other addresses the same as P30g2, with the sole exception of 192.168.1.11 - which it did see OK when I installed the printer driver originally.

I am having some problems with port forwarding on my router, but I don't see how the router could affect peer to peer networking.

Thank you.

Answer : HP Network Printer Not Accessible From One Workstation

yes. it seems fixed now. as if you can PING that printer over the network, you should be able to print (if permission is not an issue here).

i am not sure how Solarwinds IP Address Tracker determined the status of 192.168.1.11 (available or not) and resolved the domain name. i speculate the program was using the router (192.168.1.1) as the DNS server to resolve the name, and probably something was wrong for DNS on the router at that moment after you changed the configuration. so that happened?

hope it helps,
bbao