I have a network problem

[delerious]

I have a Fujitsu Lifebook C Series and I have just installed XP Pro, the network drivers are properly installed and all but I can't figure out what's wrong. I send about a gillion packets, and recieve nada. Whats the problem?

[neb1211]

How is your network setup?  The first thing I would do is to check and make sure you are recieving an IP.  Go to my network places and then click view network connections under network tasks.  Then right click your network connection and go to status.  After that click the support tab.  You should have an IP something starting with 192.168.

[delerious]

I have already done so and I have no info on it, no IP, nothing. It says that I'm goin at 100mbps though, wierd.

[neb1211]

That would be the reason that you aren't recieving any packets.  How is your network setup?  Are you using a crossover cable to go from computer to computer or are you using a router or a switch?

[acemaverick1381]

Make sure your computers have the same subnet. Are you just using Windows or is there a Mac or a Linux computer in there somewhere?

[delerious]

We're using a router. And all computers we run are windows machines.

[neb1211]

Are the computers set to automatically obtain?  In this case you want to make sure that the routers DHCP server is setup.

[delerious]

How do I know which one is the server. We have no servers at work from my understanding. We use a cable modem, that routs to I don't know which computer, and we just got a regular charter line.

[neb1211]

Hmm now you have me confused.  Do you use a router or a computer to do the routing?  If you use a router then all you have to do is log into the router by typing its ip address in your web browser and type in the user name and password when prompted.  When you get logged into the router use look through all the options for one that says DHCP server or something like that and make sure that it is turned on.

A DHCP server is not a regular server for say but instead an program that hands out IP addresses to computers on the network.

[pvr02]

Let me see if I can help you out at all delerious.

First of all I want to see if I got this all correct.  You have multiple computers in your house that are all connected to a router.  You have your cable modem attached to that router and can see the network files and share you internet through all your computers except this one.

You can always try to manually assign an IP address that matches up with your naming convention (not to match any current machine on the network).

You can also try to use a known good connection.  Maybe a computer that works fine on the network, unplug that cable and plug it into your other computer (possibly a bad cable).

I do have one question, are you by chance running a software firewall on that machine?  Or have the windows firewall enabled?