How can I achieve this with my current setup?
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Hmm. Is the printer using DHCP or statically assigned? Has the printer previously been shown to work in this sort of setup? Can you print to it?
Steve
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Before this setup, I could access it from anywhere (HTTP).
Printer has 10.0.0.99 assigned, every LAN computer is able to access it and print with it.
Public IP is linked through Virtual IP with NAT 1:1 to internal IP.
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Stephenw10 is the most patient man I've never met. Its pretty much good to go now?
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Thanks! I try not to get hostile, it really doesn't help anybody.
If the printer has a statically assigned IP perhaps it has incorrect gateway info or DNS or subnet. I assume the printer has no command line that might give a useful output when you try to ping. Does it have any error message other than 'ping failed'?
Steve
Edit: Typo
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The IP's are assigned by mappings of the DHCP server, here is a photo of the printer network setup.
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That gateway and DNS server IPs make no sense.
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Why? What should I change them to?
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10.0.0.0 is the network address. You should obviously change them to the proper gateway/DNS IPs.
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Ah yes I saw earlier you talked about changing the LAN interface address from 192.168.1.1 to 10.0.0.0 but I assumed you were just giving an example subnet rather than the actual address. Are you actually using 10.0.0.0 as the pfSense LAN interface address? And that's working fine with the other LAN clients? With that /24 subnet it shouldn't! See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Addresses_ending_in_0_or_255Use 10.0.0.1 instead and you'll be good. :)
Steve
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Damn, the network is all set up and in production LOL
Funny thing is only the printer is not working haha
I'll have to wait till the machines are inactive to change the settings.
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That also explains why after changing my LAN, I couldn't access WebGUI lol
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Better to find out now when it's just the printer not remotely accessible than tearing your hair out later trying to solve some client specific issue. ;)
Interesting that pfSense allowed you to use that address.Steve
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The printer thing and interface are easy fixes. Sounds like you have a network now.
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I'm splitting hair now. DHCP, Gateway and DNS have automatically assigned 10.0.0.1, yet I cannot access its web interface outside LAN network.
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Why should you be able to access it unless you are inside your LAN? Thats the way its supposed to be unless you VPN into it or open ports.
I also really don't think that 10.0.0.1 or some really simple addresses are the best way to assign your subnets. The whole point of not giving it a 192.168.1.1 is to get away from a common and likely possible conflict. Moving to another simple address like 10.10.10.10 or 10.0.0.1 doesn't help much. Some, but not much. -
I was able to before, besides the printer can't ping anything yet, also times out contacting NTP server.
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How many WAN IPs do you have now?
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The setup I'm doing, only one (xxx.xxx.xxx.98(WAN) - xxx.xxx.xxx.126 /27).
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Why don't you try assigning a static map to that printer. Put it where you want it to be. Then make sure there are no firewalls in the way, make sure you forward the correct ports and protocols if you need any forwards.
I know very very little about your printer except its got a odd IP and doesn't work. Also, how are you trying to print to it? What protocols? Is this windows or samba or something?
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The printer gets automatically 10.0.0.99 because I assigned it in the DHCP mappings (10.0.0.100 - 10.0.0.120 for the computers, easier for me to remember :P).
It's a Ricoh MPC2050, every computer in LAN can print through PCL5 and PCL6 and access the web interface. I want to print and access its web interface from another computer over the Internet (I was able to before this setup).
It scans and saves through SAMBA, but there's a known bug with the printer since it's using SAMBA1 and I have to do some workaround about it with Windows 7 by disabling Samba2, which I have not done yet, but it's unrelated to my current issue.
I'm going to try to assign staticly from the printer itself and report back. Thanks.