pizzaman2003
Technical User
Interesting scenario maybe someone has seen this before?
I have 7 machines running windows 2000 pro. 1 Machine using windows xp pro and 1 server running windows 2000 server. There is a linksys router in place and also a linksys switch. All machines go into the switch which inturn connect to the router. Last night the xp machine decided to use it's own private ip in the 169 range. Our Dhcp would normally give out 192.168.1. something.
In order to get the xp machine back on the network i needed to statically assign an ip address. This seemed to solve the problem but it should really be using DHCP. Now today seems like since I did that there are 3 machines that also decided to use their own private ip's in the 169 range and not dhcp. Did the XP Pro machine start a trend for the others to follow how do I get the machines to get out of using their own private ip addresses?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks,
Pizza