Access a Network Printe acroos multiple routers

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Andrew Jamison - 14 May 2006 17:00 GMT

Ok I have a little bit of a pickel.

I have two routers one that has the internet connected to it along with
2 pcs one of which has a shared printer. The second router acts as a
wireless access point as well. The problem is that the ip ranges for
each router are different the main one is 192.168.0.1-255 the other
router is 192.168.1.1-255

The problem is that wireless computers on the second router can not see
the printer sharred on the first router. Is there a way around this
with out eliminateing one router?

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Bob Harris - 14 May 2006 22:34 GMT

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> Ok I have a little bit of a pickel.
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> the printer sharred on the first router. Is there a way around this
> with out eliminateing one router?

do you really really really want 2 routers, or is that just the
way it is?

If it is just the way it is, then tell the router which is just
providing WiFi access to disable NAT and to disable DHCP. This
should turn it into just a WiFi to Ethernet bridge, and then there
will only be 1 router and everyone will be able to see the shared
resources since everyone will be on the same subnet.

I've done this in the past. Once with an SMC Barricade WiFi base
station, and once with an original Apple Airport Graphite base
station.

Bob Harris

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Access a Network Printe acroos multiple routers