Is this a peer to peer Windows Network.
Is he viewing other Win9x  boxes...or is he viewing NT boxes ?
You mention mail....are you using a proxy server. on this box...on another
box..if so which one?
What protocol are you using ....TCP/IP ? any others ?..is DUN installed on
his PC?

Go to control panel / network and tell us what you see...then click on the
properties box for the Protocols and tell us what you see in the
configuration boxes.

m


>My son running a Pentium III 400 home-built machine with a generic Ethernet
>card, using Win 98 on a collegiate network.  He can get on the network and
>can see other machines in network neighborhood. However he cannot query
>other machines either by browser, ping or get mail.  Using winipcfg he can
>see that his ethernet card has an IP address assigned but the adapter does
>not have an address.  I feel that this is the root of the problem even
>though I am very weak on networks.  There is an IP address and all other
>network data there but not adapter address.  He has tried releasing and
>renewing all with the same results.

>Is the lack of adapter address the problem, and if so, how does he get one
>assigned?
>
>Doug

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