Win XP Pro Network issues - Strange? 4

[theonlytazman]

Sorted out our last probs with WinXP & our Win98 network - thanks guys for all the info!

Unfortunately its back onto the Sony Laptop (centrino) model with WinXP Pro. It "sees" the network & pings all the pc's without any problems but not the server. The wireless system is working 100%

Strange?

It can see and go into any of the other pc's (ZA Pro is installed but the network has been set up as a trusted zone) but not the server

Any ideas as it has got us all baffled over here???

 

[theonlytazman]

HELP!!!

We are now getting this problem on our WinXP HE machine!

Any clues guys as we are stumped.

The PC sees the network no-problem & ALL other pc's on it apart from the Server machine which has been designated IP address ***.***.0.0

We can access any other pc on the network without any problems but the server machine does not come up as a recognised network pc! It works fine on all the other pc's though (running win98 or winME)

The other machines are then 1-15.

Can anyone help as we need to sort out this weird problem asap. It is only the 2 WIN XP (either HE or Pro) machines that are affected by this problem.

HELP!!!!

 

[bcastner]

You cannot use the x.x.x.0 address, it is not "valid" as a host address on any subnet.

 

[theonlytazman]

Sorry about that we are using 192.168.0.0 as the server address (our subnet mask is 255.255.255.0)

Hope that helps?

 

[hardrock49]

i believe what bcastner means is you can not use a 0 as the last number in your ip. it has to start at 1.

 

[Freestone]

The first and last addresses of any IP subnet are reserved and cannot be used, in your case 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.0.255

 

[gpalmer711]

There are several IP addresses used or automatically assigned on a network. For example:

192.168.0.0 - 0 is the automatically assigned network address.
192.168.0.1 - 1 is the commonly used address used as the gateway.
192.168.0.2 - 2 is also a commonly address used for a gateway.
192.168.0.255 - 255 is automatically assigned on most networks as the broadcast address.



Greg Palmer

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Any feed back is appreciated.

 

[theonlytazman]

Thanks for this guys

I finally figured it out by mistake (ie about the "0&quot

But many thanks to you all!!!

1 quick point we do have a broadband (wireless) router that uses the "1" gateway as the internet access point. How do we therefore get all the pc's to log on or do we use ICS to do this via the network???

 

[bcastner]

You use the DHCP feature of the router.

 

[theonlytazman]

How does the DHCP feature work? Or is there somewhere I can look at on the web to get some more information on this?

 

[bcastner]

Set the TCP/IP properties on all machines from a static IP assignment to "Obtain an IP address automaticly"

When the machines start they send a broadcast message asking for a response from a DHCP server. If the router has DHCP enabled, it responds, a communications is set up between the router and the workstation or server, and the router supplies a "lease" to an IP address for the station to use.

The DHCP server (the router) supplies a non-conflicting IP address, a Gateway address, and DNS information back to the workstation/server to use for the duration of the "lease." Well before the lease time expires, the workstations will request a renewal of the lease.