No IP in winipcfg

[wjal]

I was asked to take a look at a small office network in hopes of enabling internet connection sharing. The network consists of 3 win98 (first edition) PCs. They are presently networked for file and printer sharing. When I checked WINIPCFG /all for an IP, all I found was a MAC address and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.255. I was rather expecting to see an IP like 169.254.x.x but there is no IP at all. How can this be?

 

[RagingBITCH]

Did you click on the different adapters in the drop down box?

 

[DannyBoy]

ive seen a few machines do this, no idea why though.

Open the dos prompt and type "ipconfig /all", see if that brings anything up

Dan

 

[pilot006]

With Win98 it can be a real stinker sometimes about auto-addressing. Set up a nice class-C subnet (255.255.255.0) and creat your own IP's. Win98 looooooooves static addressing and it save headaches down the road with smaller network I find (especially small P2P-based networks like that one). Keep us updated.!

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

You can also get a 0.0.0.0. IP address when your TCP/IP stack is damaged.

 

[wjal]

Hmmm, if I had taken the time to check the Network Properties box, I bet I would have discovered the reason that there is no IP is because it is using a different protocol, like NetBeui.

 

[HKSturboKID]

Try reinstall the TCP/IP stack.