no network help!

[tacom8]

hello, i just did a reinstall of XP and when i tried to set up my network again no dice! from what i have been able to gather when if get the "ip" of the other 2 computers on the network they are the same X.X.X.Y and the Y one is off by like a couple, makes sense since they are hooked up to the same switch.... But my "ip" is completly different with no similarity to the other 2 computers that are on the same switch... I'm thinking this is the root of why i cannot get on the network with the other 2 computers (which are working fine). Im using a netgear fs105 and lynksys befsr41?switches and a 3com integrated NIC on my IS7. When i say my "ip" i mean like what ipconfig tells me from the command prompt. Like the internet works ok, but just nothing on the network front and its starting to piss me off.

Does anyone have any suggestions? thanks for any help

 

[dmcowen674]

Sounds like you are having a Netbios problem like I am having with one machine as well.

 

[ScottMac]

The addresses have to be from the same group, not completly different.

If the first two machines are 192.168.1.XX, the the third machine must be 192.168.1.YY (different host address, same network, assumed a mask of 255.255.255.0).

There are some exceptions to this if you were talking directly to a broadband cable connection (no router), but behind the router, all machines must be on the same network if they are on the same segment (broadcast domain).

Netbios has nothing to do with this problem.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

It would help if you specified what your IP addresses were for the three machines. I'm at a loss how the router could hand out a totally different subnet address, since I don't believe the Linksys befsr41 has that capability. I also don't understand how that machine could possibly be enjoying Internet access through the router. The address you see wouldn't be 169.254.x.x by any chance, would it?

 

[tacom8]

The problem seems to have regulated its self ??? yay!

All machines are now @ 69.11.YY.XXX

we had videolan going yesterday, i'm postive its was a completly diffrent set yesterday for the other 2 boxes (never wrote it down, like all a 3 number combo, and not 192.168.1.10X that i would get from my linksys) and mine was on this 69.11.YY.XX. Wish i knew what was going on there yesterday...

thanks for the help guys, guess i just had to wait this one out till it fixed itself....

 

[ScottMac]

That address would (probably) be from your cable provider. If it's not, you gotta fix that address, putting out on the Internet could cause some ugly trouble.

It would seem that your router is not in-between the computers and the BB cable connection (or you wouldn't be getting addresses like that assigned)

Good Luck

Scott

 

[martind1]

why are people replying?

he explicity said he wanted "no network help!". lol, not great grammer there. Not that I am grammer police or anything .....



I concur that somehow it seems that the one computer was getting an external ip from the cable company and not the inter IP like the other computers (the 192.x.x.x)