Re: Fixed IP disappears from "computers near me"??

Andrei Ungureanu wrote:
The hibernation shouldn't be an issue. I think there is something wrong in your router setup. Maybe the lease time is too short.

Fixed IP addresses should be no problem in your case, what I think is that there are some problems with the master browser service on your network. Start the Computer Browser service only on one computer on the network (maybe on the one that runs all the time) and disable it on the others.

Thanks for the input.
Lease time should be irrelevant because ALL of the machines and the router get shut down every night. The only machine that remembers ANYTHING should be the laptop that's been hibernated. Everybody
else gets a new IP address from the router when they boot. yes?no?

The browser service on the 2000 machine claims to be running. I don't
have ANY machines that run continuously. This machine is always the first one booted on the network. It recognizes the second machine if it's dhcp but not if the second machine is fixed IP. Why does the
browser service care HOW the machines got their IP address?

mike



>Fixed IP disappears from "computers near me"??
>>
>> Windows 2000SP4, windows98se wired local network.
>> Using DHCP, it works fine. DHCP is in the router.
>>
>> I want a fixed IP address for one of my 98se machines.
>> When I do that, the fixed IP machine disappears from the "computers near
>> me"
>> menu on the 2K machine. Also missing from "entire network".
>> Search finds it.
>> I can still make a new network place and
>> access the machine.
>> The 2K machine is also missing from the 98se machine's network
>> neighborhood.
>> Turning off the firewell doesn't help.
>>
>> My xp machine can still see the fixed address 98se machine. Looks like a
>> win2k
>> issue.
>>
>> I have almost no win2K experience.
>> How do I fix this so I can have a fixed IP machine without losing
>> functionality?
>>
>> The root of my problem is that my laptop hibernates. When it's off, DHCP
>> assigns its IP address to a new machine. When the laptop comes out of
>> hibernation with it's old, now conflicting, IP address, things gets ugly
>> on the network.
>> Fixed IP address fixes this problem, but creates the one above.
>>
>> Thanks, mike
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