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Wh-Sign.nl

Wh-Sign.nl

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Good morning,
For a while now I have been unable to get a LAN connection with our Mimaki CG130 SRIII. We work with 3 PCs and they are all connected to the plotter via LAN.
Now there are only two PCs that inexplicably can no longer connect. The oldest PC is still connected and we can also work fine from that PC.
It is just inconvenient to first save everything on the network drive and then cut from that PC.
Each connection option says [Port not found]. This is understandable for serial and USB, because they are not connected.
But also under LAN it says [Port not found], it does not matter whether I enter the IP address of the plotter or not.
We work with:
PC 1 Illustrator 2024 [FineCut9 V3.3] (Win10)
pc 2 Illustrator 2022 [FineCut9 V3.1] (Win 10)
pc 3 Illustrator CS6 [FineCut9 V1.3] (Win 10)

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Only PC3 works flawlessly.

Who has the golden solution, because this is starting to get quite annoying.
It has always worked well.
 
Wh-Sign.nl

Wh-Sign.nl

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I can indeed see it now, yes.
I have tried to connect several times.
When I now read the plotter info (on the plotter) I get ip 192.168.1.151

If I enter this IP address on PC3, I cannot connect to it either.

Only on PC 1 and 2 I do not have the option to enter CG-SR3 at LAN
 
Wh-Sign.nl

Wh-Sign.nl

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Attila Nagy said:
You can copy the Hostname or the IP address from PC3, and it would probably work, but that is mot the way to setup a Network.
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I did try this, but still no connection :-(

I think I'll just shut everything down now.
Everything from the power, then start the server first, and then the PCs one by 1.

To be continued
 
Attila Nagy

Attila Nagy

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Wh-Sign.nl said:
I did try this, but still no connection :-(

I think I'll just shut everything down now.
Everything from the power, then start the server first, and then the PCs one by 1.

To be continued
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You might have network address set to one of your ethernet adapter. it only works with Self assigned addresses. THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO GO.

PC3 set to DHCP and the cutter as well, but there is no DHCP server on that network. thy both receiving SELF ASSIGNED IP addresses.169.254.x.x and 169.254.y.y These 2 addresses belong to the same Network and start to see each other.

PC2 and PC1 I only can guess.has set the IP address to 192.168.1.x and 192.168.1.y. These IP addresses not Belong to 169.254.y.y network. They will never going to see each other.

You should connect all your Devices to one network with a DHCP server in it. and it will make sure everyone receives the IP addresses they are belong.
or you can setup unique IP addresses to each device with the same network range.
 
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Wh-Sign.nl

Wh-Sign.nl

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Server restarted, everything was powered up, still no change.
I connected the LAN cable from the plotter to another port on the switch.
This results in PC3 also being unable to connect.
IP address read on the plotter and this is still 192.168.1.151

It makes no difference whether I set it to automatic IP or not.

I'm slowly starting to go crazy here.
 
Attila Nagy

Attila Nagy

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The most logical guess is PC3 connected Directly to the cutter makes PC1 and PC2 not connected at all.
-Connect the Plotter and each computer to the same network Switch.
 
Attila Nagy

Attila Nagy

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Wh-Sign.nl said:
Server restarted, everything was powered up, still no change.
I connected the LAN cable from the plotter to another port on the switch.
This results in PC3 also being unable to connect.
IP address read on the plotter and this is still 192.168.1.151

It makes no difference whether I set it to automatic IP or not.

I'm slowly starting to go crazy here.
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I gave you my contact details, long ago. we could already fix it in a few minutes.
 
Wh-Sign.nl

Wh-Sign.nl

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You won't believe this, so this was not a network problem, but a PC problem :-o

The port to the plotter was blocked by the firewall :-/
Probably due to an update.

Tried setting on PC 1 and that worked, PC 2 not yet.
Adjusted the same setting there and voila everything works again.

I'm as happy as a child hahahaha
 
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