Re: Weird Machine IP

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From: Damian N Leibaschoff [MSFT] (damianl_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:19:57 -0600

Hi,
Have you try disabling and re-enabling the network interface being used?
Also try, Ipconfig /release and Ipconfig /renew from a command prompt.

Do you know if the machine may have been taking off the docking station
without properly selecting the option to undock it first?

When you are pinging, are you pinging by name? From which machine?

Regards,
Damian 

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"Greg Howard" <noc@ciinc.com> wrote in message
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> I have a laptop running XP.  It plugs into a docking station.
>
> The port on the side of the machine which we used for testing had a 4th
> octet of 14.
>
> The Docking station has a fourth octet of 13.  We have released the local
> port on the laptop, which is not even connected now.
>
> When I do a nslookup of the machine name it is correct.  Everywhere I look
> it is correct (13)
>
> Except when I ping, it returns a 14.  The machine is acting pretty weird.
I
> have shut it down, rebooted and danced around it.
>
> Still returns the same address.
>
> Any Ideas.
>
> This all came about when I looked at the computer accounts in system
manager
> and the local accounts were not available to me.
>
> Your help is appreciated
>
> Greg
>
>