For the past few days, I've been having trouble connecting to my Windows server from the P3 machine in my room (running NT4). I can connect to the Internet, but cannot use the shared drives and printer that's connected to the server.
The IPConfig showed me the problem - the DHCP is assigning the subnet mask of 255.0.0.0 instead of 255.255.255.0. Oddly, it's giving the correct subnet mask to other computers on my network.
Changing the config of my P3 machine so that it uses a manual IP address and subnet mask, I rebooted. Now I can access the server, but there's no Internet connection!
I don't want to have to keep changing settings and rebooting depending on whether I want the network drives or the Internet - anyone have an idea how to fix it?
I wonder if the problem has something to do with DNS? I tried putting the ISP's DNS server addresses into the dialog box, but it said "To use DNS, you must specify a hostname". I don't know what hostname would be compatible with the ISP's systems, though...
The IPConfig showed me the problem - the DHCP is assigning the subnet mask of 255.0.0.0 instead of 255.255.255.0. Oddly, it's giving the correct subnet mask to other computers on my network.
Changing the config of my P3 machine so that it uses a manual IP address and subnet mask, I rebooted. Now I can access the server, but there's no Internet connection!
I don't want to have to keep changing settings and rebooting depending on whether I want the network drives or the Internet - anyone have an idea how to fix it?
I wonder if the problem has something to do with DNS? I tried putting the ISP's DNS server addresses into the dialog box, but it said "To use DNS, you must specify a hostname". I don't know what hostname would be compatible with the ISP's systems, though...
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