Sorry, the URL provided earlier is a dud. try this one: http://www.retrevo.com/r/2
The Chapter 2 will be useful for your purpose.
Regards,
Sarang
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HP C4780 Access Restriction
Hello,
I have an HP Photosmart C4780 All-in-one printer. I have recently had problems with non-authorized people using the printer's built-in wifi to print pages of text. I was wondering if there was anyway I can restrict this. I live in an apartment complex within easy wireless reach of about 100 people, and do not have the budget for such drastic measures as building a Faraday cage around my apartment.
Thank you very much in advance,
Brett Richards
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The only problem with Sarang's recommended solution is if you are currently running WPA or WPA-2 on your wireless network, (and I hope for your sake that you are) then you will have to significantly lower the security of your entire wireless network just to connect your printer to it. I looked through the HP web site and unfortunately it doesn't appear that your printer supports WPA, though you may be able to find something if you contact them.
Assuming you can't get it to support WPA, I would recommend you connect if via a wired network connection or, if it doesn't have a wired connection, connect it via USB and share it out.
Do whatever you need to so that you don't have to put your entire wireless network on WEP security, because WEP can be cracked in less then a minute with tools that anyone can download off the Internet. And then your entire network is vulnerable.
Most TCP/IP printers allow you to restrict the IP addresses from which they will accept jobs. If the list is empty, all addresses can print. If the list has 1 or more addresses, only those can print.
Type the printer's IP address in your browser, and see if you can find that list. Then enter the allowed IP addresses.
Hello everyone,
I have looked into this problem, and as Shoota said, this will not work on my network, which is WPA-2 Enterprise encrypted. In addition, I am not the administrator of this network, so I do not have the ability (nor the desire, for that matter) to lower the encryption on the network.
@hdhondt: Unfortunately, the network is not set up with static IP addresses, so this will not help...
In that case, is there a way to set up an ad-hoc network among the few computers allowed, to adequately encrypt the network against attackers, and to connect (on Windows Vista and XP) to both this ad-hoc network and the main network that connects to the internet?
Oh, and by the way, the network administrator does not allow Internet Connection Sharing, and monitors for it, so any solutions using ICS will not work, unfortunately. :(
Thanks much,
Brett Richards
You could set up your DHCP server (a server PC or the router) to assign fixed IP addresses to each PC. That way, the PCs will use DHCP and will get IP addresses assigned on whatever network they are connected to, but on your network they will always be given the same address.
And, of course, printers should always have a fixed IP address.
That depends entirely on what kind of DHCP server you use. If it is a router, you can set it up by typing the router's IP address into your browser. Then, click on a link to set up DHCP. Actual details depend on the router model.
To set up a PC server as a DHCP server, see for example:
http://support.microsoft.c
Hi,
In the manual I'd provided earlier, there is a section called "Wireless with a router (infrastructure network)" on page 6, Chapter 2.
It should allow you to setup WPA as well. The instructions for "Install the software for a network connection" are provided on page 9.
The printer can also be connected using USB cable and setting up Printer Sharing (if permitted) on one of the machines. (Page 10 of the document)
Warm regards,
Sarang
If you do not have priviliges to change anything on the network, I don't think there is a real way out for you. In that case you probably also won't be allowed to set up a local shared printer as sarangk_14 suggests. If you can, you can also set up the printer so it only allows access from your PC over the network, in the way I suggested (in comment #25381786). Then share your connection to those people who should have access to it
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by: sarangk_14Posted on 2009-09-20 at 22:58:58ID: 25380521
Hi The Page 8 of the Printer Manual, available from http://www.retrevo.com/d/d
Hope this helps.
Warm regards,
Sarang