How to change IP addresss

19 Dec 2006 4:48 PM

Lee Beck

Like many XP users, I'm finding that the initial setup of a home network is
not simple. I've had a wireless router for about a year now and have
stumbled/fumbled through the process several times and still have no network
that does file-sharing. I can access the internet on all 3 computers and can
share the printer.

I was trying again last night to set up for file sharing, and I got to a
point wth my NetGear card documentation where it says that my IP address
should be within a certain range. I did the ipconfig /all routine and found
that the address being used by my NB computer was outside the range. How do
I change the IP address?

19 Dec 2006 5:01 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
Since you can access the Internet trough the Router with all 3 computers,
you are within an acceptable range (otherwise it would not work).
I doubt that your file sharing issue is related to IP range.
May be this can Help.
Successful Sharing involves some general consideration in Network settings,
http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html
As well as specific adjustment of each computer according to what is allowed
to be shared.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/filesharing.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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"Lee Beck" <LeeB***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Like many XP users, I'm finding that the initial setup of a home network
> is
> not simple. I've had a wireless router for about a year now and have
> stumbled/fumbled through the process several times and still have no
> network
> that does file-sharing. I can access the internet on all 3 computers and
> can
> share the printer.
>
> I was trying again last night to set up for file sharing, and I got to a
> point wth my NetGear card documentation where it says that my IP address
> should be within a certain range. I did the ipconfig /all routine and
> found
> that the address being used by my NB computer was outside the range. How
> do
> I change the IP address?

19 Dec 2006 8:40 PM

Ian

Above is good advice, to which I'd add:

To start with at least, share a folder _outside_ of the user-profile tree.
Userprofile components like 'My Documents' create the biggest issues owing to
their special filesystem-permissions. So, create 'C:\shared' or the like, and
share that.

on the client computer, open a commandprompt (Run 'cmd') and type:

net use H: \\10.10.10.23\sharename

obviously, insert the correct IP of the machine hosting the share. If this
works, you should now have an extra driveletter, X: which is the share.
Typing 'DIR X: /s' should confirm this, if you get a file listing.

If you can get that to work, then basically you've solved the major part of
the problem.

If you get asked for a password, but can't get any further, then you have an
issue with user-accounts and share permissions. OTOH if the password is
accepted but X: seems empty or you can't open files, then you have a
filesystem-permissions problem.

20 Dec 2006 12:27 PM

Lee Beck

Thanks Jack/Ian,

I visited the URLs and copied/printed much of the information. Didn't get
the chance to try any of it out yet, but I definately will. I'm going to
stick with it this time until I get the file sharing thing going.

Just from reading the expert advice, I wouldn't be surprised that a large
part ot my problem is because of firewall issues. I have both Norton and
Penecillin on the machines, and I understand that just preventing them from
starting at boot may not prevent them from reloading. I'll look further into
making sure that I'm not firewalled when I try to contact the other computers
on my network.

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"Ian" wrote:

> Above is good advice, to which I'd add:
>
> To start with at least, share a folder _outside_ of the user-profile tree.
> Userprofile components like 'My Documents' create the biggest issues owing to
> their special filesystem-permissions. So, create 'C:\shared' or the like, and
> share that.
>
> on the client computer, open a commandprompt (Run 'cmd') and type:
>
> net use H: \\10.10.10.23\sharename
>
> obviously, insert the correct IP of the machine hosting the share. If this
> works, you should now have an extra driveletter, X: which is the share.
> Typing 'DIR X: /s' should confirm this, if you get a file listing.
>
> If you can get that to work, then basically you've solved the major part of
> the problem.
>
> If you get asked for a password, but can't get any further, then you have an
> issue with user-accounts and share permissions. OTOH if the password is
> accepted but X: seems empty or you can't open files, then you have a
> filesystem-permissions problem.
>
>
>