Well, I've been using Macs for years. I've set up numerous simple and complex networks, including a few with PCs involved. But I just did something that puzzles me, and involved the dreaded PC. Perhaps someone here can help.
The local community computer center, down the hall from me, has a whole bunch of PCs and one Mac and two printers. The printers are attached to one PC, as a print server. Just recently the network was reconfigured so that the center's DSL modem goes directly to the LAN, not to the serving PC.
So, I found amidst the center's donated junk, a nice D-Link wireless router. I unplugged the Mac's connection to the LAN. I plugged in the D-Link router, and then plugged the Mac behind the D-Link. I thought I'd be safe. And it worked fine. I configured the D-Link with the Mac, and the Mac saw the Internet just fine. Like before. Next step was to try the wireless. But, since this was a mere test, I unplugged the unit, and replugged the Mac the normal way.
I was happy that I'd determined the router worked, and that I could easily set up a wireless system for them.
But then they told me that ONE of their PCs (a Windows 2000 box) now no longer gets the Internet. Somehow a D-Link device is what the computer is seeking.
Now, it's hard for me to relate to this problem. I can't imagine a Mac doing any such thing - without any prompting, switching its networking configs simply because a new leg of a network was added. For a few minutes.
Any idea what happened here?
Sounds like your router was acting a DHCP server and the Windows box latched on to it instead of whatever else they have that was acting as a DHCP server.
Rebooting the Windows box now that your router is gone may get it back to where it was
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