Verizon network& Server-Client IP Connection issues

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  • Slipknot
    PCHF Member
    • Oct 2018
    • 1

    #1

    Verizon network& Server-Client IP Connection issues

    My windows 10 PC is my Business apps Server whose client is an iMac running the Network version of the Business apps, under Virtual Windows 7Pro. ( Don’t get nervous, been doing WLAN’ed & LAN’ed PCs TO Macs running VIRTUAL WINDOWS since Win95. Consider the Mac, as a PC).

    The PC server was originally configured with a static IP address, (the google server config, which I forgot), to allow the client to connect effortlessly, either wirelessly or WIRED, which was implemented later.

    I later changed to a dynamic ip, chosen by DCHP (Netgear router, Spectrum internet service). It worked flawlessly, either way. When in DCHP mode, I just had to get the servers new, daily IP address, & enter that when I’d boot the business app in the client iMac.

    I moved my office to a new location that does not yet have a communication cable installation (for Spectrum cable modem type internet services) that runs to my office. I will have to have this cable installed myself, so I can have Spectrum transfer my 200/100 service to this new location. That will take a few weeks to do.

    In the meantime:
    It does have a vintage Verizon system installed, (1/7 speed) that is in use by an associate for his phones , internet , & networked computers. Both my PC AND IMAC are temporarily wifi’ed into his Verizon network. His IT person, Networked both computers, my canon do all printer, and 2 credit card machines, by cat-6 into a small wired router box, that continues to his network router. Both computers now have internet &email access, (including the Mac & Win7 sides of the iMac). I think that this access is via WiFi only, because the credit card machines won’t work, the printer can’t connect, whether by WLAN OR LAN, to his network.

    But when I C-prompt the PC for an IP ADDRESS, it does give me an IPV4 (192.168.1 x), but no IPV6 address, (Instead, it gives me a hexadecimal string for that). When I key in that IPV4 address when the client business app is opened, β€œIT CANT FIND THE SERVER..”

    My credit card machines, and printer, do not work either. On the origin Spectrum network, They were all cat-5’d into my Netgear 3700 router, along with a 2 line Vonage VIOP SYSTEM, and all worked flawlessly for years!
    Questions:
    1. Will assigning a static IP ADDRESS IN WINDOWS 10, in the server computer, allow the business apps in the client iMac to connect, under the current networking conditions?
      -How do I do this?
      -Where will I find this IP ADDRESS, when I do my daily β€œC-prompt: ifconfig inquiry,” on the server?
    2. Or, Should I plug both computers, the printer, and credit card machines, into my β€œtrusty, old” Netgear 3700 Router, and THEN plug THAT into his main Verizon router?
      -Will that make the printer visible on his WiFi network, so both computers, and the business apps can connect that way, and print to it?
      -Will the credit card machines then function as they did?
      -Does their proprietary support have to be called, to configure their machines to work on a Verizon network as presently set up?
    3. Will the router then assign an IP ADDRESS, (a dynamic I presume?) that I can use to connect the business client to the server?
    4. Will configuring a static IP AT THIS TIME, THEN WORK? Any ideas would be appreciated! THANKS!
  • jmarket
    PCHF Owner
    • Jan 2015
    • 7636

    #2
    Hi there @Slipknot and welcome to PCHF

    First of all, you have it setup wrong. You’re missing a crucial component: a switch. You need a switch to link all the devices to the router. Then the router will assign IP addresses to the devices and all will work.

    You don’t need a static IP. The router takes care of IP assigning.

    I’ll tag @Samuria to assist us

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    • veeg
      PCHF Director
      • Jul 2016
      • 8977

      #3
      Any updates for us?

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      • veeg
        PCHF Director
        • Jul 2016
        • 8977

        #4
        Any updates for us? After 48 hrs this thread will be closed.

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