(these days there is pretty much always an internal network even if you only use one computer). 3.) What is the distance between the router and the printer 4.) Is there antivirus software installed on your Mac 5.
If you don't setup any kind of forwarding on your router, it is likely to deny any kind of request from the outside world, and even if it doesn't, it's not going to know where to send the request on the internal network. 1.) Are the printer and Mac connected to the same network 2.) Is your router dual-band enabled i.e., both 2.4GHz and 5GHz If yes, make sure the dual-band has different SSIDs for 2.4G and 5G networks. back up and running quickly if you are connecting via Ethernet and have a computer running the Mac OS X software.
Now when i try to connect to 96.1.2.3 the router is the first responder but it knows to forward the request to my Macbook Pro so in the end my Macbook Pro responds through the router back to the requesting party. Select the network card device and right click on it. I have setup my router (which is also my broadband modem) to forward every request to 10.0.0.1 by putting it into the routers configuration via the utility that came with it. In the Start search box, type devmgmt.msc and then press Enter. lets say my public IP is 96.1.2.3 (all are fictional but for the example this will do fine.) Click on your Ethernet connection and where it says Configure IPv4: use the drop. If so, they are behind a router of some sort and you will need to make sure the router knows to forward requests to the right computer through NAT/port forwarding, or setting up the DMZ in the routers configuration to the receiving computers' internal IP address.įor example, My Macbook Pro is 10.0.0.1 and the router is 10.0.0.138. Open up Network Preferences with your adapter and Ethernet connected 2. (not behind NAT or behind NAT and forwarded/DMZ)Īre you able to ping both computers from eachother? ĭo either computers' IP addres fall in one of the following ranges?:, 10. or You need to make sure that in both computers port 22 is open (firewalls anywhere?) and that there is a network route from A to B.