Re: FN-FORUM: Network Problems

date posted 1st July 2004 18:51

What are the IP addresses of the two PCs? Why is one of them looking at
10.0.0.2 for DNS? If that's a router, then having a PC with an IP Address of
192.168.0.1 is not going to work. They all need to be on the same subnet.
Post the results of ipconfig /all for both PCs.

If you re using DHCP from a router, make sure that both of them have XP sp1
or sp1a as there were problems with third party DHCP with XP Gold.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Keight" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 6:09 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM: Network Problems


>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to network two PCs both running Windows XP and can't seem to
get
> them to see each other.
>
> - Both computers give me notification when I plug the ethernet cable in.
> - I get a bytes received figure in the status initially, but after that it
> doesn't changed and stays at about 4bytes.
> - I've tried pinging the loopback 127.0.0.1 on both computers and it works
> ok.
> - I've tried pinging each computer from the other and each computer to
> itself, and everything fails APART FROM one of the PCs pinging itself.
>
> I've run Microsoft network diagnostics on THE OTHER PC that fails to ping
> itself and the bits that fail are as follows:
> Microsoft Network Diagnostics, Under Network Adapters:
> [00000001] NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller FAILED
>
> + DNSServerSearchOrder = 10.0.0.2 (FAILED)
> Pinging 10.0.0.2 with 32 bytes of data:
> Destination host unreachable.
> Destination host unreachable.
> Destination host unreachable.
> Destination host unreachable.
> Ping statistics for 10.0.0.2:
> Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)
>
> + IPAddress = 192.168.0.1 (FAILED)
> Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
> Request timed out.
> Request timed out.
> Request timed out.
> Request timed out.
> Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
> Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)
>
> Device Manager states that the network adapter controller is working ok.
>
> Has anyone got any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob