I'm ashamed to ask this :
A friend of mine has a box with Windows XP SP2 and can't access the
internet. I've agreed to help, so we now have his box at my home
and try to connect via my LAN connection with dynamic DHCP. Up
pops a message saying "limited or no access". When clicking this
message another dialog box says something about not getting a IP
address from the DNS server. And we should contact the network
administrator. Very informative, eh ?
With my Linux box there is no problem getting an IP address, so of
course there's nothing wrong with the network or my DNS servers.
Somewhere in this piece of shit we noticed that the box already had
an old IP address, but doing a "whois" on that (from Linux) we
found an address in California, U.S..... (169.254.2.90).
This is absurd. We live in Denmark.
How can I delete that IP address and get a valid one from my DNS ?
I'm totally ignorant when it comes to this crap, but I know some of
you know more than something about Windows, so :
ideas, anyone ?
TIA
Kaj Haulrich.
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