[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ledfoot
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I LOL last night when I read Jims post but I was too wasted to respond!

 

Zoe,

First off. Make sure the personal firewalls are off or tuned so they won't mess things up. Secondly, check your subnet mask. If they are not the same the PCs will think they are on different networks. Yours should be 255.255.255.0.

 

Mom,

It's a little early for lunch, but I'll give you a holler later!

Good luck with the event today. Give that car a run to redline, mom!!!

everyone!

 

Hey Charlie

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Chazmo
[B]Billy, glad it's sorted out.

 

Ohhh great! Just tell EVERYONE my subnet Mask!!!




If they do not match (255.255.255.0.), can their values be changed in the dos window?

 

My Zoe what a nice subnet mask you have!

 

Luke,

You da' man!!

I'm not sure either of us is reading Billy's email correctly. If you're right, I don't understand why his router would assign unexpected IP addresses to his XP machines... DHCP is DHCP -- new machines would just get sequential addresses on the network

Unless... Maybe he has a machine that's doing something weird with MAC addresses and confusing the router... This could cause the router to waste a large amount of IP addresses and possibly assign addresses out of the range.

If Billy's going to configure his firewall to restrict certain ranges of IPs, then he probably needs static assignment to those machines. Otherwise, he has to define a strict range of DHCP-assigned addresses for the router to hand out.

 

No....you have to go into the TCP/IP properties. If these are being assigned via DHCP, they should be the same and your problem will be somewhere else..