how to make a private network address 'stick'?

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carioca

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Happy holidays! For me, it's turning into one big folly day: I stuffed around with my Billion router to get Windows Home Server to accept remote connections - and in the process cut off my wife's Vista Ultimate 64bit machine from the Internet...

Router is back to normal now, but try as I might, Vista Networking and Sharing Center stubbornly refuses to accept a private network IP that my router holds ready for it (in the 192.168.1.0 range).

Instead, it allocates a private network address in the 169.x.x.x range and I simply can't force it to change this.

My wife was running Ubuntu 9.10 on her PC before, and networking under it was slightly difficult! But it was nothing compared to this arcane and all-over-the place networking 'system' that is Vista's...

Any pointers on how to muzzle this MS private network IP monster is welcome. How to stop it being a DHCP server would be a start...

Meanwhile merry Xmas to all!

Cheers,

LMH
 

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carioca said:
Happy holidays! For me, it's turning into one big folly day: I stuffed around with my Billion router to get Windows Home Server to accept remote connections - and in the process cut off my wife's Vista Ultimate 64bit machine from the Internet...

Router is back to normal now, but try as I might, Vista Networking and Sharing Center stubbornly refuses to accept a private network IP that my router holds ready for it (in the 192.168.1.0 range).

Instead, it allocates a private network address in the 169.x.x.x range and I simply can't force it to change this.

My wife was running Ubuntu 9.10 on her PC before, and networking under it was slightly difficult! But it was nothing compared to this arcane and all-over-the place networking 'system' that is Vista's...

Any pointers on how to muzzle this MS private network IP monster is welcome. How to stop it being a DHCP server would be a start...

Meanwhile merry Xmas to all!

Cheers,

LMH
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On the computer that is getting the private self assigned network can you please verify that all network settings are correct for the adapter: Gateway, Subnet, IP, DNS (if applicable) etc... If that doesn't work, resort back to assign this adapter an IP automatically and post back with results :)
 

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Thank you, CrucialHoax, I've tried all these repeatedly and eventually reverted to automatic settings (which I had tried before to no avail) but this time somehow Vista networking deigned to accept the IP that I had hard-coded into my router's DHCP server and all was well...

Only remaining hurdle is to make my wife's machine 'visible' to the Win dows Home Server again so I can back up the current configuration there. Probably will have to use the WHS disk again and reinstall the connector software, ah well...

BTW, I had never used Vista in any incarnation before, preferring to stick to XP and various flavours of Linux, e.g. SuSE, Ubuntu et al. but have lately started dual-booting Win7 on my main XP machine. Quite impressed, a masssive improvement on Vista as far as I can see!

Cheers,

LMH
 
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