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
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