On 28 Mar 2002, at 12:15, joseph marty wrote:

> The IP address of computer B should be 169.254.254.107, not
> 169.254.76.107.

  That's not correct, for two reasons:

1.  These are class B addresses, with subnet mask 255.255.0.0.  This
means that the third octet of the address is included in the part of
the address that must be unique to each host, not the part that must
be the same across the network.  169.254.254.107 and 169.254.76.107
are both valid addresses on the same subnet as 169.254.254.108.

2.  No human should ever assign a 169.254.x.x address to anything.
This entire block is reserved for DHCP clients to randomly assign
themselves if they cannot get configuration information from a DHCP
server.  [It is appropriate for Demetri to report that this is what
his machines are claiming; it is not appropriate for anyone to tell
him to set them like this.]

David Gillett
CCNA, MCSE, A+

> >>
> >ipconfig, computer A
> >0 Ethernet adapter:
> > IP Address.......0.0.0.0
> > Subnet Mask......0.0.0.0
> > Default Gateway..
> >1 Ethernet adapter:
> > IP Address.......169.254.254.108
> > Subnet Mask......255.255.0.0
> > Default Gateway..
> >
> >ipconfig, computer B
> >0 Ethernet adapter:
> > IP Address.......0.0.0.0
> > Subnet Mask......0.0.0.0
> > Default Gateway..
> >1 Ethernet adapter:
> > IP Address.......169.254.76.107
> > Subnet Mask......255.255.0.0
> > Default Gateway..
> >
> >Retrying net view commands:
> >
> >computer A
> >net view, "The command was completed successfully", reading computer A
> >net view\\computername, "Bad command or file name".
> >net use j: \\computername\drive, "Error 53: The computer name specified
> >in the network path cannot be located."
> >computer B
> >net view, "The command was completed successfully", reading computer B
> >net view\computername, "The command...is unknown".
> >net use j: \\computername\drive, "Error 53: The computer name specified
> >in the network path cannot be located."
> >
> >Map Network Drive
> >computer A, computer B
> >"The computer or sharename could not be found".
> >
> >Demetri Kolokotronis

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