HI all.
I have just spent 5 hours on the phone with Linksys and Compaq; no one can answer me.
I have a linksys router (WRT54g) with 2 wireless and one wired PC (the latter running xp Pro, others are XP) that all work fine–resource and file sharing, no prob. All have auto-IP assignment from router in range 192.168.1.100-111 as specified by the router setup.
My COmpaq PC (xp home) is set up the same way ( i think!) and hard wired into router as well. However, it gets an auto-assigned IP that is out of range (192.168.15.2). It cannot “see” any other PC’s in the windows network windows, and they cannot see it or it’s shared printer or drives. It gets to the Internet just fine.
But here is the bizarre part. I can ping all the other PC’s from the problem PC! I can access the router, including the admin panel, from the problem PC as well, but it’s IP and MAC address are not listed in the DHCP clients table!
I have enabled netbios over TCPIP, diabled firewalls, forced a static IP in the correct range, even run a winsock fix I found at a spyware site. Router reboots, ipconfig release and renew from dos windows, multiple PC reboots, all not working. I have also insured that Computer Browser Services are “started”.
It seems to me that the answer must be in some arcane XP setting, since the physical connection (intact ping) to the other PC’s is confirmed.
Any thoughts?
Robert
