Lars,

Thank you for your help.
I had almost given up and your timely suggestion was the answer to my
problem.
So simple and yet something I would never have thought of.
Better late than never  :o)

Thank you very much indeed.

Everything is hunky-dory now.

Cheers,
John

On 22 August 2012 07:57, Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> John Dunlop wrote:
>
>>   208 (network_address = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx      #Canon Copier  IR 5030
>>
>
> John,
>
> being very late to the party... I don't know if you got it working in
> between.
>
> However, when reading your xxx notation above, this reminded me to make
> sure to
> not use leading zeros in IP addresses for "nicer formatting"... because
> this is
> sometimes mistaken by the software to indicate octal numbers instead of
> decimal.
>
> Can result in the system attempting to connect to a slight different
> target IP.
>
> (imagine an IP like 010.001.002.003 for example, being mistaken as 8.1.2.3)
>
> Lars.
>

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