Perhaps, if you were to assign the computer a permanent ip address associated with its MAC address, then that would work.  I had to 
do something like that on my network, because I needed reserved addresses for my networked TIVO's.  You do this by logging on to the 
router and setting it in the appropriate place.  (I do it on my D-Link router with no problem.)

Dean Kukral


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Will Stephenson" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 9:06 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Vista networking


Hello all!

I have a client with a new Dell/Vista Home Premium SP1, a mid-range machine.
The network is a small office with a workgroup configuration (name of
Test...), one other computer (XP Home), a WD World MyBook network hard
drive, all attached through a Linksys non-wireless router to a DSL
connection.

The problem is that, after booting, the Vista machine does not obtain an IP
address from the router - that's what it says... (the router is set to be
the DHCP server). So nothing connects of course. However, by telling the
computer to repair the connection, it does the release/renew IP dance and
works like a champ.

I am thinking that Vista is somehow blocking the acquisition of an IP
address when it first boots. There *seems* to be no security issues in the
way, but there probably is somewhere that I'm missing.

Any ideas?

Thank you for your time and thought on this.

Will Stephenson
Acadia Technologies Inc

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