Hello, I have a small network consisting of an XT gateway on a static WAN IP, a router, and two gigabit Ethernet switches serving up to 12 stations. The gateway has two Ethernet connections, one to the static IP and one to the router (using two 192.168.4.xx addresses), which then does NAT (using 192.168.0.xx addresses) to the LAN. This setup works for sharing the static IP with the LAN. I want to share two printers, one connected to the gateway box via USB, and another with a LAN address served by a Mac OS X box's print queue over Bonjour. As it is, I have successfully shared the Mac's printer with other XT and Mac boxes within the LAN. Now what I want to do is share it with the gateway box, and to share the gateway's printer with the LAN. I am guessing that there will need to be different approaches for the two printers, in that one is upstream and one downstream of the router. Is this totally wonky? Am I doing this the hard way? Even if I am, I'd like to know if there is an answer without reconfiguring the network. TIA! Joe Brown

I meant XP.

Why would you slow your internet access down running thru a XP box when you have a router? Proper setup should be internet<>router<>gig switches<>pcs/printers this would also "share" your static ip address and reduce by 1 hop your internet access. It would be easier for you to connect the printer to a pc in the .0.xx lan than the .4.xx side of the router. But you should still be able to print from lan to this printer. Can you access the XP gateway pc from the .0.xx lan? Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

>>Why would you slow your internet access down running thru a XP box when you have a router? Hmmm. I didn't think it would; I have (only) 5 Mb DSL, and was under the impression that this is slower even than 10BaseT. I want to run a proxy server on the gateway; therefore, it is between the LAN and the WAN. >>It would be easier for you to connect the printer to a pc in the .0.xx lan than the .4.xx side of the router. Well, one of them is. The one on the gateway, though, is primarily for "manager" use (the manager sits at the gateway). It's a color laser; the LAN printer is monochrome, and I intended it to be more readily accessible for less-privileged users. >>Can you access the XP gateway pc from the .0.xx lan? NO! That's a big part of my question...

Can you ping the managers pc from the .0.x network? A peer to peer network really only has local name resolution via broadcasts. Server/client has DNS and WINS servers to consult. You need name resolution across subnets without DNS or WINS. Try putting a entry for the managers pc in the HOSTS file of a pc on the .0.x network. See if you can access the managers pc. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

Of course all your issues would be moot with a proper setup. Internet<->router<->proxy<->switches<->pcs/printers Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

OK, I *almost* understand. How, though, do I configure the outgoing Ethernet port on the manager station? Just as another DHCP client?