DHCP, mapped drives, ip

[Kenneth]

I've culled through the many threads here trying to find the fix for the red
x on startup. I've tried everyone I've found and nothing seems to work. I
was poking around under the admin tools/event viewer/system and found the
following error being reported:

The IP address lease 192.168.1.113 for the Network Card with network address
00508D535420 has been denied by the DHCP server 192.168.1.1 (The DHCP Server
sent a DHCPNACK message).

I did a search on google and saw the mention of assigning ip's through the
respective router (I have a Linksys). Not having much knowledge on the
subject of DHCP and assigning ip's I was wondering if before I invest the
time learning how if this could potentially solve the problem of not
connecting to the shared drives on startup. Or if it would be just another
thing to throw in the brain matter when I have time.

Our network consists of 11 computers one acting as the "file server" and the
rest of them accessing it. All computers are running XP Pro.

Thanks for any help,

Kenneth

 

[Fred Davis]

Kenneth,

I think it is obvious by the lack of response that this is
a WinXP problem.

Many of us have experienced the same situation and I for
one, like yourself, have tried every suggestion I can find
all with the same result. FAILURE!

If MS monitor this site I would have thought they would
have addressed this by now.

Living in hope,
Fred