College Networking

[Guest]

I have a computer with onboard LAN runnig Win XP Pro. The network admin said
that all I had to do was hook up the computer to the wall socket. I tried
this, and behold, it did not work. I have an invalid IP address according to
my pc. my computer is not recognized on the network, and the network is not
recognized on the PC. Help anyone?

 

[Guest]

I just set my daughter up on the network at her school and all we had to was
use DHCP. Maybe you should try that. You also probably need a account and
password for the school network. Contact someone at the school for that.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I have a computer with onboard LAN runnig Win XP Pro. The network admin said
that all I had to do was hook up the computer to the wall socket. I tried
this, and behold, it did not work. I have an invalid IP address according to
my pc. my computer is not recognized on the network, and the network is not
recognized on the PC. Help anyone?

Remove the IP address and set everything in the TCP/IP settings
to automatic. Remove everything including standard gateway, DNS
server etc.

Then try again.

Hans-Georg

 

[Chuck]

I have a computer with onboard LAN runnig Win XP Pro. The network admin said
that all I had to do was hook up the computer to the wall socket. I tried
this, and behold, it did not work. I have an invalid IP address according to
my pc. my computer is not recognized on the network, and the network is not
recognized on the PC. Help anyone?

In TCP/IP Properties (Network Connections - Local Area Connection - Properties -
TCP/IP - Properties) is the computer set to "Obtain an IP address automatically"
and "Obtain DNS server address automatically"?

Open a command window (Start - Run - "cmd"). Type the following commands:
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

Next check ipconfig information for the computer.
Start - Run - "cmd". Type "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" into the command
window - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.