Re: Cannot connect one computer to network
From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 02/20/05
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 13:20:18 -0800
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:21:02 -0800, sly007 <sly007@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
>Hi Sandra,
>I just hope this mail is not too late!
>I appreciate the fact that you are not a network guru, but you can help.
>If I understand your situation very well, you are not trying to connect to
>then internet, are you? And you dont have a DHCP Server - a system that
>automatically allocate IP addresses to Computers. In that case, you have to
>help.
>On that your system that has its IPCONFIG as 169.254 . . . . . right click
>on my network places, select properties. Then right click on the LAN
>connection again, also select properties, then click on TCI/IP and click on
>Properties. In the Properties box where you have the IP addresses, select
>"Use the following IP adress". Then input and IP address, similar to the one
>you have on the system that is connected to the one you connected to the
>internet. The essence is to make sure that the two systems are on the same
>subnet/network. let the only difference be on the last subnet, that is, on
>the last octet. If you have 24.175.213.236 and the subnet mask as
>255.255.248.0, then you can write something like 24.175.213.237, with a
>subnet msak as 255.255.248.0.
>Try this and you should be able to see the two systems.
Please don't do this, even for problem diagnosis.
If you have one computer (or router) connected to the internet thru a broadband
(cable or DSL) modem, it's assigned a public ip address by the ISP.
If you connect a second computer, and assign yourself an address in the subnet
of the first computer, any address that you pick will duplicate one already in
the assignable address pool of the ISP. Either you, or the legitimate recepient
of the address you hijack, will end up unable to connect ("...address in
use...").
You have 3 choices:
1) Get a NAT router, as Carey suggests.
2) Setup one computer as a software NAT router ala Internet Connection Sharing.
3) Contact the ISP, and pay for a second ip address.
Assigning your own address, in the space owned by the ISP, is rude, and may get
your service suspended, at least temporarily, until the ISP can figure out what
problem you're causing.
Here are a few websites with useful tutorials:
http://www.cablesense.com/
http://www.homenethelp.com/
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/
http://www.wown.com/
-- Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. My email is AT DOT actual address pchuck sonic net
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