Sharp AR-337 - stranger than fiction

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  • pluto1415

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    Sharp AR-337 - stranger than fiction

    OK, we have an AR-337 - after 3 weeks of the printer not working and at least 6 visits by our copier "hardware" and "network" techs AND our real network techs we still had nothing. Copier guys said it was the network, Network guys said it was the copier. I finally noticed on the NIC card print out that it said the TCP/IP connection port was 10001, I logged in to our network administratively, changed the printer port on the server - FIXED!!! Yeah for me!

    Now comes the weird part - twice this week the NIC card has changed its port. Monday I got a call that my users couldn't print - print NIC page, it says port 10002. Change on network, all good again. Wednesday I get the same call, print NIC page, it says port 10003. Change on network, all good again.

    All this time, if I go to the IP address of the copier, it still shows the port as 9100, so obviously the NIC is not getting its information from there.

    My question is why does it keep changing and how to I make it stop???

    Please help, we are at our wits end and if I take a day off and the copier changes ports again it will be mass confusion.
  • blackcat4866
    Master Of The Obvious

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    • Jul 2007
    • 22995

    #2
    Wow, that is strange. I've never come across anything like that. =^..^=
    If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
    1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
    2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
    3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
    4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
    5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.

    blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=

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    • Toner Boy
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      • Aug 2007
      • 357

      #3
      Did you change the NIC yet?

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      • DavePo
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        • Jul 2008
        • 303

        #4
        I have seen this a couple times. I agree with last post about change NIC.

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