I'm trying to connect directly with my laptop to a printer in my local
school library and I usually accomplish this without joining to the
domain
by installing the appropriate driver and then configuring it to print
to a tcpip port and then specify the ip address of the printer and it
usually works. The problem is I can't find the ip address of the
printer and the computers available are networked in with the usual
security lock outs so I'm unable to see which ports are used and figure
out the ip address.

Any ideas would be appreciated

thank you

Can you get it from the Printer? It will depend on the model.
Go to the printer and look at the networking menu, tcp.ip config
Ask the library?

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"tmt" <john.toliver@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to connect directly with my laptop to a printer in my local
> school library and I usually accomplish this without joining to the
> domain
> by installing the appropriate driver and then configuring it to print
> to a tcpip port and then specify the ip address of the printer and it
> usually works. The problem is I can't find the ip address of the
> printer and the computers available are networked in with the usual
> security lock outs so I'm unable to see which ports are used and figure
> out the ip address.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated
>
> thank you
>

Simple solution. I'll check the networking menu but I doubt the local
IT department would be willing to share such precious information.

Thanks, I will let you know how it goes.