copy_it
03-17-2004, 11:42 AM
getting really miffed with this so any help would be greatly appreciated...
got a home network with 3 pc's and a laptop - all pc's running on xp pro and the laptop on xp home all connect through a 5 port ethernet hub using windows own network software..everything works fine when i first set it up but over the course of the day i start to lose them one by one..when i check the connections on each of the pc's that have gone down i find that the ip address which was automatic private address has changed to assigned by dhcp and says invalid ip ad the latop which i use as the gateway bridges it's connection (whatever that means) ..if i go around them all and setup the network again they all work for a while or until one of them is turned off then when restarted it doesnt show on the network..if i use the command prompt i can ping all the pc's using their ip address....is there an easy solution or should i go for a third party software to network with?
thanks in advance
got a home network with 3 pc's and a laptop - all pc's running on xp pro and the laptop on xp home all connect through a 5 port ethernet hub using windows own network software..everything works fine when i first set it up but over the course of the day i start to lose them one by one..when i check the connections on each of the pc's that have gone down i find that the ip address which was automatic private address has changed to assigned by dhcp and says invalid ip ad the latop which i use as the gateway bridges it's connection (whatever that means) ..if i go around them all and setup the network again they all work for a while or until one of them is turned off then when restarted it doesnt show on the network..if i use the command prompt i can ping all the pc's using their ip address....is there an easy solution or should i go for a third party software to network with?
thanks in advance