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Originally Posted by multiweb
That's odd. I have a Samsung Color Laser printer that keeps on changing IP on Win7 as well. I can't seem to stick it to a static one. It's driving me nuts and I resorted to set up multiple printers with a number in the end. Might be something similar.
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Marc and Al, what is providing the DHCP service? If it is Windows replace with a proper DHCP server. Your router will do a better job, and any *nix system with ISC DHCP will leave it for dead (once you know how to configure it). A DHCP server is required to always give a system the same IP and M$ does not without setting reserved allocations.
Some printers have issues with DHCP if they are not being given a lease with a very long expiry time (2 years is not unknown). This is a DHCP server configuration option.
Since your firewall probably can not cope with devices (eg printer, NAS) changing addresses you should tell the DHCP server to allocate them static addresses.