XP to XP

Brett I. Holcomb brettholcomb
Mon May 17 11:49:34 PDT 2004


XP defaults to dhcp - meaning MS has that button checked - but that assumes 
there is a dhcp server somewhere.  On my XP machine I have a fixed address. 
  You can change it in the network setup.

Keith Antoine wrote:

> At 05:53 PM 19/07/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>On 07/19/03 17:19, Keith Antoine wrote:
>>
>>>Just checked the downstairs machine and that can piong this upstairs
>>>machine under XP on both, but its not seeing the net. It appears not to
>>>be able to resolve
>>>the addresses.
>>>I do not have any DNS settings downstairs as I do not have any stable IP
>>>I can use.
>>
>>Can you explain how you have no DNS IP address?
> 
> 
> XP uses dhcp to setup its network therefore ther is no dns shown. As I do
> not have any IP's
> that I can use there are non on the lan machine downstairs.
> 
> Skippy

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