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Smoke24 · 09-04-2001, 08:58 AM

Thanks for the help Statica. By golly I think I got it. It still seems to be working fine after I did the complete manual config for the network. It may help Hal to get his going by doing the same. I did it through the start menu, configuration, networking, netconf. In the Network Configurator go through each item and if you have that info for a field, put it in there. Under Host name and IP network devices, make sure you have the host name for your ISP then under the adapter 1 tab, enable, manual, and put the IP (make sure not to use one already in use by another machine) and netmask for the router. Under Name server specification (DNS) check DNS required, put the domain name of your ISP and the DNS number or numbers of the servers. That is how I set mine up and got it to work. I also turn off hosting on the Linux box since it was connected through the router and I think that fixed the problem of booting the second Windoze machine off the net. This may or may not be the proper way to set it up but it worked for me. Before I did all of this, I had a real slow connection too, I guess it just wasn't configured right. I know I had failed to put in the DNS's and had used an IP that another machine was using.

09-04-2001, 08:58 AM	#8
Smoke24 The Smokester Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Montgomery, AL, USA Posts: 1,434	Thanks for the help Statica. By golly I think I got it. It still seems to be working fine after I did the complete manual config for the network. It may help Hal to get his going by doing the same. I did it through the start menu, configuration, networking, netconf. In the Network Configurator go through each item and if you have that info for a field, put it in there. Under Host name and IP network devices, make sure you have the host name for your ISP then under the adapter 1 tab, enable, manual, and put the IP (make sure not to use one already in use by another machine) and netmask for the router. Under Name server specification (DNS) check DNS required, put the domain name of your ISP and the DNS number or numbers of the servers. That is how I set mine up and got it to work. I also turn off hosting on the Linux box since it was connected through the router and I think that fixed the problem of booting the second Windoze machine off the net. This may or may not be the proper way to set it up but it worked for me. Before I did all of this, I had a real slow connection too, I guess it just wasn't configured right. I know I had failed to put in the DNS's and had used an IP that another machine was using.