XP Network Problem

[den]

The office has a shiny new PC (Intel 2.4GHz Dual core cpu, 1GB Ram, Leadtek FX1500 256MB OpenGL certified video card.) I can get it to connect to the office LAN and see other PCs/Print/Share files through the DLink router.

I am buggered if I can get it to connect to the net. I've tried all the setup procedures I can think of but I'm not a confident hacker and XP's lack of configureability is beating me. Please throw suggestions at me. ("switch to Mac/Linux" will earn a tongue-poke.)

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[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Note: I'm assuming you use DHCP to assign addresses and DNS on all your machines. If you need to specify an IP address, then you will also need to specify DNS.

Specifying DNS is, fortunately, simple. Go to one of the WORKING machines, hit the command prompt, type "ipconfig /all" the way I mentioned in a previous comment. Write down the two DNS server addresses.

Go back to the new machine, and go to Control Panel, Network Connections. Right-click on the network connection (LAN or wireless), hit Properties. Click "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)", click Properties.

Here, select "Use the following DNS server addresses" and type in the numbers you got from the working machine. Once they're in, click "OK" or "close" until you're back at the network connections window.

Right-click on the connection, choose Status, click Support, click Repair, and wait for this to finish.

And you should be online, again.