On Monday 05 January 2004 13:37, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 05 January 2004 08:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Right - well the first thing is to see what your windows boxes > > are using. Check *all* the network config tabs and write down > > the results. It's very likely that they are using dhcp - i.e. > > letting the isp set your ip. That's fine on many counts, though > > there are some advantages in using static I, my preferred option. > > Actually, he originally posted: > I ran ipconfig on the windoze box and it said: > autoconfiguration IP address: 169.254.5.217 > > This seems to indicate that he is NOT using DHCP or anything else, > but Windows is trying to do that zeroconf stuff and is auto > assigning an IP address to the network card. That means that he > may have an IP but it is pretty worthless for any type of interface > unless he manually adds the address to hosts on all machines and > even then, we should assume that it may change at each boot point. > Windows gets around this by broadcasting (with NetBUI IIRC or RPC) > on the local net, something that he would need Samba configured to > do and a bad idea anyway since that broadcast could "leak" to the > Internet and make your machine visible to sundry and all. > Hmm - I haven't used XP, or W2K in quite a long time, but IIRC netbui can be dropped, and the lan configured to run on TCP/IP only.
> Your suggestion to switch to a static IP address is a VERY good > one. He would be well advised to follow it. I think it would save him a lot of pain, and cause no problems whatsoever in Windows. It's even easy to set up on both boxes. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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