DuetTest.Local not working but IP-Address does.
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@Eplov i would not set the static IP on the Duet. Use a DHCP reservation on your router
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@Eplov depends on the router how to do this but generally they have a administration page if you go to the IP address in a browser.
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But why does the DuetTest.local not work. I did the first couple of times?
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@Eplov mDNS support is patchy on some OS, so that might be it.
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@T3P3Tony Im using Win10, latest update, and it worked previously, but only a couple of times. Since then i haven't gotten it to work.
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@Eplov weird. can you you ping that host name? what happens when you go to http://duettest.local in a (chrome) browser?
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@T3P3Tony Exactly nothing. It doest nothing. It just says that there is no connection.
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@Eplov try ping duettest.local from your command line
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If you happen to run chrome, there is a chrome app (not plugin, app) called "mDNS browser" that will help diagnose all of this. It shows you all the mDNS (aka Bonjour) addresses that your windows pc understands.
The italics are to point out that any lack of reliability in these setups is Windows 99.9% of the time....
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It certainly used to be the case that Windows 10 only supports mDNS for "modern API" clients, not Win32 clients. See https://superuser.com/questions/1330027/how-to-enable-mdns-on-windows-10-build-17134. I don't know whether that has changed.
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I found a solution. The local website is not called DuetTest, but myprinter.local. I do not know why this changed, given that i changed the name of the printer and the website name did not follow along.
I cannot see anything else in my config file that could have changed this.
