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[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't, but my unifi gives me the same IP address that the printer says it has. I believe it's a part of the same subnet and there are no vlans as far as I'm aware.

I can try the IP on windows.

I'm not certain how I would check which wifi mechanism my phone is using.

I appreciate all the troubleshooting.

[–] 9blb@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago

If the printer is able to get an IP address and shows up in Unifi, the connection from the printer to the controller must be fine. If your PC has internet access, it's connection must be fine as well.

If both are on the same subnet (in most cases, that would mean that the IP addresses of both devices only differ in the last block of digits, e.g. 192.168.1.28 and 192.168.1.10), they should directly connect through the switch. Blocking access there is definitely possible (VLANs, Port Isolation, ..), but none of those would be enabled by default, so I wouldn't expect them to be turned on if you didn't mess with them.

I suppose there is also a possibility, that access could be blocked directly on the printer. My Brother printer has a web interface, where you can enable/disable the different protocols and enable an IP whitelist. But those aren't enabled by default either, so they should be fine if you didn't mess with anything.

Overall, it's fairly hard to diagnose this remotely. I'd probably try the following:

reset the printer to factory settings to rule out any issues there
maybe get a cheap 10$ switch and try connecting your PC and printer directly to it. That would rule out any configuration issues on the Unifi side
just posting on the Unifi forums might be worth a shot as well. They probably have some more ideas to narrow down the issue.

That's assuming that you actually want to get it working. If you don't print a lot, just plugging in a cable every once in a while probably isn't too much of a hassle.