On 28 Mar 2002, at 16:35, Demetri Kolokotronis wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:44:23 -0800 David Gillett
> <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> >   Each of your computers is listing TWO Ethernet adapters.
> > Do they really both have two NICs installed?
> >
> >   In each case, one adapter is showing no address configured,
> > and the other is showing "I was configured to 'obtain an
> > address automatically' from DHCP, but I couldn't find a DHCP
> > server to provide one".  You may have better luck with static
> > address assignments.
> >
> > David Gillett
>
> Just one ethernet adapter each computer. I am not sure I
> understand, "You may have better luck with static address
> assignments". It appears protocol assignments were from dial-up
> adapter. "Use DHCP for WINS Resolution" is checked. I do not intend
> to transfer files through the Internet.
>
> Demetri

  If the additional entries were from dial-up adapters, they would
say "dial-up adapter", not "ethernet".  The extra "ethernet" entries
point to some definite confusion somewhere.

  The checkbox you are referring to is "Use DNS for WINS resolution" -
- nothing to do with DHCP.  [DNS maps Internet host names to IP
addresses, WINS mapas NetBIOS names to IP addresses.  You can check
this box if you always use the same host name for Internet and
NetBIOS -- generally a good idea.]

  The entries that have addresses, have addresses that are both in
the 169.254.x.x address block, reserved for hosts that have been
configured to use DHCP but have received no response from a server.
Addresses in this block are essentially unroutable (and virtually
unusable).  You will need to either

(a) install a DHCP server on your network -- some home routers can do
this job, or

(b) manually select and assign ("static") addresses to each of your
machines.  Standard private class C (subnet mask = 255.255.255.0)
address blocks are 192.168.x.y, where "x" is a number between 0 and
255, and is the same across your network, and "y" is a number between
1 and 254 and is different on each machine.
  [If you will be using ICS, I believe it insists on x=0 for the
network and y=1 for the machine with the Internet connection.]

David Gillett

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