ip address changed???

I had a memory card on my printer mapped as a network location. All was well
for weeks then suddenly I could no longer access the drive. Took a few days
to figure out the address to the printer changed. Is This normal? Anything I
need to know? Having refigured the location, all is well.
(Was \\some ##s\memory_card but the last two #s are now different.)

Thank you,
Ed
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300 GB HDD

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:00:52 -0400, "Ed H"
<edandsandy@NOSPAMcomcast.net> wrote:

>I had a memory card on my printer mapped as a network location. All was well
>for weeks then suddenly I could no longer access the drive. Took a few days
>to figure out the address to the printer changed. Is This normal? Anything I
>need to know? Having refigured the location, all is well.
>(Was \\some ##s\memory_card but the last two #s are now different.)
>
>Thank you,
>Ed

If the printer is configured to get its IP address from a DHCP server,
that address could change at any time.

If you want the printer to always have the same IP address, assign it
a static IP address outside the range of your DHCP server's address
pool.
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