From: lalbert1@aol.com   
      
   On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:54:10 -0700, Snidely    
   wrote:   
      
   >Les Albert explained on 8/12/2021 :   
   >> On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:42:51 -0700, Snidely    
   >> wrote:   
   >>> With a quizzical look, Les Albert observed:   
   >>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:43:25 -0700, Snidely    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>> Just this Tuesday, Les Albert explained that ...   
   >>>>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 09:06:20 -0700, Snidely    
   >>>>>> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>>>> Because I spend so much time with computers, I'm as used to finding   
   >>>>>>> buttons on the screen as on the keyboard or on the side of the   
   >>>>>>> computer.   
   >>   
   >>>>>> Another question for a computer nerd: I have a Canon iP6600D printer   
   >>>>>> that refuses to reveal its IP address (the Acer Chromebook will not   
   >>>>>> print on the Canon unless it has the address).  On my Windows computer   
   >>>>>> I have tried all the CMD line netstat commands, the Windows Power   
   >>>>>> Shell commands, and all the Windows suggestions I could find online   
   >>>>>> with no success.  Do you have a nerdy method that might work?   
   >>>>>> Les   
   >>   
   >>>>> Try "arp /a" from cmd or powershell window.  If you know the printer's   
   >>>>> physical address (the MAC) you can figure out the right one to use more   
   >>>>> quickly.  If the last component of the 4-tuple is 0, 1, or 255 ...   
   >>>>> that's probably not the right one, but exceptions occur.   
   >>   
   >>>> I tried "arp /a" and it produced the same result I always get; the   
   >>>> last digit is 1 and it's not the printer.  Thanks for your suggestion.   
      
   >>> Perhaps you and the printer aren't connected to the same router.  I   
   >>> assume you have a wifi router; do you have a management app for it?  My   
   >>> Eero's app lets me see who/what is connected.  Some "target" devices   
   >>> don't seem to need the wifi password, and maybe your printer connected   
   >>> to the neighbor's wifi.   
   >>   
   >> No, everything is connected to my own (Comcast) router.  The netstat   
   >> commands and your suggestion tell me what's connected but they always   
   >> give an ip address that points to the router.  I don't want to screw   
   >> around fishing in the router. Instead my work-around for the   
   >> occasional printing that I need (I'm almost paperless) is to access   
   >> Google Drive on the Windoows computer, and download the file that I   
   >> saved on the Chromebook to print it.  Thanks again.   
      
   >>The printer's MAC address is probably on the printer serial number   
   >label.  Otherwise, it would be in a menu on the printer (if you have a   
   >control panel, and not just off/on).   
   >My label printer is USB, so MAC not on the label.   
      
   If there is a label on the printer then it probably is on the bottom.   
   This printer is from an earlier decade and is not easy to lift.  It   
   has a control panel but nowhere in the panel is there access to its   
   MAC or IP addresses.  As I said earlier, the work-around is easy, but   
   I will keep trying only because it has become (to me) an intractable   
   problem.   
      
   Les   
      
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