Multiple Wireless Logins on Same laptop

11 Oct 2006 2:35 PM

rightcoastnovice

My laptop connects wirelessly using wep. I can log-on and connect to the
internet as admin. I can log-on and connect to the internet as another user.
However, I cannot log-on as both users and have internet connectivity to
both. I can log-out of one, switch users, and the other will have
connectivity.

Is this an XP issue, or is my wireless router level unable to assign two
different IPs to users on the same computer? DI-624 router.

11 Oct 2006 3:31 PM

Doug Sherman [MVP]

The router will only provide one IP per adapter regardless of who is logged
onto the computer. XP does not support having two users logged onto the
computer at the same time. After logging on a user could supply different
credentials in order to establish some other kind of connection - eg. VPN.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

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"rightcoastnovice" <rightcoastnov***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> My laptop connects wirelessly using wep. I can log-on and connect to the
> internet as admin. I can log-on and connect to the internet as another
user.
> However, I cannot log-on as both users and have internet connectivity to
> both. I can log-out of one, switch users, and the other will have
> connectivity.
>
> Is this an XP issue, or is my wireless router level unable to assign two
> different IPs to users on the same computer? DI-624 router.

11 Oct 2006 7:12 PM

rightcoastnovice

Thanks. That probably saved me a couple of hours of frustration.

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"Doug Sherman [MVP]" wrote:

> The router will only provide one IP per adapter regardless of who is logged
> onto the computer. XP does not support having two users logged onto the
> computer at the same time. After logging on a user could supply different
> credentials in order to establish some other kind of connection - eg. VPN.
>
> Doug Sherman
> MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
>
> "rightcoastnovice" <rightcoastnov***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:B527EA6A-D249-4A64-A0EB-64CE8C64E4AA@microsoft.com...
> > My laptop connects wirelessly using wep. I can log-on and connect to the
> > internet as admin. I can log-on and connect to the internet as another
> user.
> > However, I cannot log-on as both users and have internet connectivity to
> > both. I can log-out of one, switch users, and the other will have
> > connectivity.
> >
> > Is this an XP issue, or is my wireless router level unable to assign two
> > different IPs to users on the same computer? DI-624 router.
>
>
>

11 Oct 2006 5:31 PM

David Hettel

The "Internet" has no real concept of who you are, the Internet does know
about your computer however. You may visit a site on the Internet and log
into that site as anyone you like, this does not generally require a
specific IP address. You can be logged into a number of sites using
different user names and passwords at the same time, I regularly do this.
Perhaps if you explained what you are trying to do we could better explain
how to accomplish your goals.

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"rightcoastnovice" <rightcoastnov***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:B527EA6A-D249-4A64-A0EB-64CE8C64E4AA@microsoft.com...
> My laptop connects wirelessly using wep. I can log-on and connect to the
> internet as admin. I can log-on and connect to the internet as another
> user.
> However, I cannot log-on as both users and have internet connectivity to
> both. I can log-out of one, switch users, and the other will have
> connectivity.
>
> Is this an XP issue, or is my wireless router level unable to assign two
> different IPs to users on the same computer? DI-624 router.