Guest promicro Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 hi to all, i'm having trouble setting up my wireless network between my 2 computers; the main one runs W2k and the smaller one runs XP pro. both computers tell me that they are running and connected but i cannot find them on 'computers near me' on either machine nor can i see folders of the connected machines. checking the Event Viewer on the W2k computer i see an error with the message: Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the network card with the network address of 00E04CCC3533. The IP address being used is 169.254.47.74. can you tell me if this is my problem ? thanks, bob
Guest philo Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 Re: ip config "promicro" <promicro@cox.net> wrote in message news:O9j8ezqkIHA.5368@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > hi to all, > > i'm having trouble setting up my wireless network between my 2 > computers; the main one runs W2k and the smaller one runs XP pro. both > computers tell me that they are running and connected but i cannot find > them on 'computers near me' on either machine nor can i see folders of > the connected machines. > > checking the Event Viewer on the W2k computer i see an error with the > message: Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for > the network card with the network address of 00E04CCC3533. The IP > address being used is 169.254.47.74. can you tell me if this is my > problem ? > > thanks, bob You will probably have to configure the firewalls on each machine to allow the other. here is some reading http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875356
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 Re: ip config "promicro" <promicro@cox.net> wrote in message news:O9j8ezqkIHA.5368@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > hi to all, > > i'm having trouble setting up my wireless network between my 2 computers; > the main one runs W2k and the smaller one runs XP pro. both computers tell > me that they are running and connected but i cannot find them on > 'computers near me' on either machine nor can i see folders of the > connected machines. > > checking the Event Viewer on the W2k computer i see an error with the > message: Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the > network card with the network address of 00E04CCC3533. The IP address > being used is 169.254.47.74. can you tell me if this is my problem ? > > thanks, bob The message tells you that your network adapter failed to obtain an IP address from your DHCP server. This might mean that your wireless connection is not working. You should use fixed IP addresses while testing things.
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