problems connecting to windows server 2003 with agfa Azura c85 connected WITH NEW ROU

The problem is ,a new BT router has been installed and since then we have had problems with the IP configuration to the Agfa plating machine and the 252 Printer.

The only thing that has changed after the new router was installed was it had a different DEFAULT GATEWAY and IP ADDRESSES. (192.168.1.254)

The older router had 192.168.0.1 Default Gateway and the printer and plating machine IP addresses where set to suit that range. (plating 192.168.0.101 – printer 192.168.0.200)



The Printer was connected to the router via a network switch and to the Apple Macs, and the Plating machine was connected to a Windows 2003 server also connected to the Router.

We have had the Macs and the PC ‘s IP addresses reconfigured to suit the new routers range.192.168.1.64 to 192.168.1.253.

The problem we are having is the plating machine won’t alow the Macs or the server to connect using the new IP settings but it will connect to the server if we reconfigure back to the old settings,this gives us a problem with the Apple macs that need to be connected to the plating machine and they won’t because they are set to the new routers IP range.

We have looked to see if there was any way to reconfigure the plating machines IP address to suit the router but could not find anything.

Would this setup work if we were to setup 2 IP ADDRESSES to the one NIC card on the server and both the Apple Macs that need to access the plating..

 

I think you are over complicating things.

Don't change every machine on your network to suite the IP configuration of your new router, just change the router's IP address / DHCP lease range to the same as the old router.

We've already established that your routers IP address in 192.168.1.254, so type http://192.168.1.254 in your web browser to bring up the routers control panel. Older BT routers used the following username/password: Admin/Admin but I think the new ones use the routers serial number for the password when you first login.

Just set the IP address to 192.168.0.1, and If you are using the router as a DHCP Server tell it to lease 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.254

Then you don't have to worry about changing the configuration of an already working network.

Andy

 

Have you got this sorted yet, I have a UK Engineer who could come out to you and get it all sorted see my site below and let me know if you need my help

 

Judging by his name, I believe the company may be based in Coleraine Northern Ireland. May be to far to send an engineer for a simple network problem