Guest Bob M Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 I did this on earlier W98 computers. It is helpful if you have a small home network, where some computers are asleep a good part of the time. The automatic assignment gets messed up in these cases, requiring xtra rebooting. How do I setup a fixed address for my XP computer? TIA. ----------- notbob-m1211@sbcglobal.net Remove "not" for return address.
Guest nass Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 RE: Manual setting of IP number on home LAN "Bob M" wrote: > I did this on earlier W98 computers. It is helpful if you have a small home > network, where some computers are asleep a good part of the time. The > automatic assignment gets messed up in these cases, requiring xtra rebooting. > How do I setup a fixed address for my XP computer? TIA. > > ----------- > notbob-m1211@sbcglobal.net > Remove "not" for return address. Click Start >> Control Panel >> Double click Network and Internet Connections >> Double click Network connections. On the network connections right click your Local Area Network (LAN) and select properties. On the LAN properties under General Tab highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) then click Properties Button at the bottom. On the TCP/IP properties you can check the Radio button for : (*) Use the following IP address: IP address: [ 0. 0. 0 . 0 ] Subnet Mask: [ 255.255. X. X ] it depend on the Cat of the above IP is it will be A, B, C Default gateway: [ ] DNS, best if you left this Auto as it will be assigned by your ISP unless you have Static DNS address. http://www.answers.vt.edu/ask4help/connection/vtkb697.htm http://www.it.iastate.edu/pub/kng278/kng278.html http://www.portforward.com/networking/static-xp.htm HTH. nass ------- http://www.nasstec.co.uk
Guest Jim Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Manual setting of IP number on home LAN "Bob M" <notbob-m1211@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:kgh3d35nros5volt4cj0o4ikic2mfdrj4i@4ax.com... >I did this on earlier W98 computers. It is helpful if you have a small home > network, where some computers are asleep a good part of the time. The > automatic assignment gets messed up in these cases, requiring xtra > rebooting. > How do I setup a fixed address for my XP computer? TIA. > > ----------- > notbob-m1211@sbcglobal.net > Remove "not" for return address. Edit the HOSTS file. Turn off dhcp.
Guest R. McCarty Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Manual setting of IP number on home LAN Modify the TCP/IP properties of the Local Area Connection. Give the machine a address of your router's range and set the Gateway and DNS server to point to the Router's address. In most home environments you'll use a Default mask value of 255.255.255.0 "Jim" <j.n@nospam.com> wrote in message news:9hkAi.4604$Oo.1001@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net... > > "Bob M" <notbob-m1211@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:kgh3d35nros5volt4cj0o4ikic2mfdrj4i@4ax.com... >>I did this on earlier W98 computers. It is helpful if you have a small >>home >> network, where some computers are asleep a good part of the time. The >> automatic assignment gets messed up in these cases, requiring xtra >> rebooting. >> How do I setup a fixed address for my XP computer? TIA. >> >> ----------- >> notbob-m1211@sbcglobal.net >> Remove "not" for return address. > Edit the HOSTS file. Turn off dhcp. >
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Manual setting of IP number on home LAN "Bob M" <notbob-m1211@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:kgh3d35nros5volt4cj0o4ikic2mfdrj4i@4ax.com... >I did this on earlier W98 computers. It is helpful if you have a small home > network, where some computers are asleep a good part of the time. The > automatic assignment gets messed up in these cases, requiring xtra > rebooting. > How do I setup a fixed address for my XP computer? TIA. Via the TCP/IP properties pages for your network adapter. Use the IP range and subnet mask from your router. As a note, I have found recently that the embedded gigabit network adapters in a number of systems I have worked on do *not* work once fixed IP addresses have been assigned. No data is ever transferred, and browsing is impossible. I had to add PCI adapters to be able to assign fixed IPs and have them work. Also, I normally an an "Reset IP" shortcut, to "reset_ip.cmd" to the desktop on most systems. That file contains the three lines below. The third line is blank and ensures that the second line is actually processed. === ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew === Whenever there's some sort of network issue, it's a simple matter to click on the icon and get a new address. HTH -pk > > ----------- > notbob-m1211@sbcglobal.net > Remove "not" for return address.
Guest Bob M Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Manual setting of IP number on home LAN On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:12:01 -0700, nass <nass@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Click Start >> Control Panel >> Double click Network and Internet >Connections >> Double click Network connections. >On the network connections right click your Local Area Network (LAN) and >select properties. >On the LAN properties under General Tab highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) >then click Properties Button at the bottom. >On the TCP/IP properties you can check the Radio button for : >(*) Use the following IP address: > IP address: [ 0. 0. 0 . 0 ] > Subnet Mask: [ 255.255. X. X ] it depend on the Cat of the above IP is >it will be A, B, C >Default gateway: [ ] > >DNS, best if you left this Auto as it will be assigned by your ISP unless >you have Static DNS address. > Thanks for the info: That is waht I was looking for. However, after doing that, "Nothing" worked. No E-Mail, no newsgroups, no Web browser. The message from Patrick Keenan mentions problems with embedded hardware. Maybe that is what I have. It says "Intel Pro/100 VE Network Connection". I will try his suggestion about > === >ipconfig /release >ipconfig /renew > >=== and see if that works. ----------- notbob-m1211@sbcglobal.net Remove "not" for return address.
Guest Bob M Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Manual setting of IP number on home LAN On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:22:11 -0400, "Patrick Keenan" <test@dev.null> wrote: >Also, I normally an an "Reset IP" shortcut, to "reset_ip.cmd" to the >desktop on most systems. That file contains the three lines below. The >third line is blank and ensures that the second line is actually processed. > >=== >ipconfig /release >ipconfig /renew > >=== > >Whenever there's some sort of network issue, it's a simple matter to click >on the icon and get a new address. > >HTH Thanks, it did help. It is a lot better than rebooting to get the new address! ----------- notbob-m1211@sbcglobal.net Remove "not" for return address.
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