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ipconfig /release does exactly that, it releases all currently held ip addresses and related information thus making the ip address 000.000.000.000 ... did you remember to do ipconfing /renew afterwards?

What is your O/S on the server? Are youassigning the IPs for the computer yourself or are you using DHCP from the server?

Why are you even using a server? For such a small network, a router with a built in firewall will be able to network the 4 computers and allow you to get onlinewith all 4 at the same time ... not to mention it will cost a great deal less.

Make sure on the XP machine, if you are setting up the IP addresses yourself, that the IP address is in the same range as the others i.e. general small network setupis 192.168.1.x with 192.168.1.1 being the server's IP and the other computers using anything from 192.168.1.2-255 ... and only one computer per IP. Also remember to set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 (another default) and the gateway to the server's IP. The DNS IPs should still be assigned by the server.

If you are using DHCP, make sure it is allowing 4 concurrent assigned IPs.

If you aren't sure about something or if you want more info on something, just let me know.

Hope this helps.

-Dave

You can create a network bridge on the windowsXP computer and create a boot disk from that computer, that you can install on the other computers. Then it will maybe work

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