On Thursday 26 May 2005 20:39, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > 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 ? > Kaj, I've never run XP, so I can't give you the details, but in Win98 Control Panel there is a section for Network. Open that and get the properties box for TCP/IP. HTH
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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