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.)

Comments

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It's a wired network. The PC that connects:

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.112
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 139.134.5.51
192.168.0.1

The PC that doesn't connect:
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.5
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 139.134.5.51
192.168.0.1

All router filtering is done on incoming: no outward filters are enabled.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Hmm. It looks good, although the DHCP range being so big that it'll give you both a 112 and a 5 is a little unusual. It's also a little weird to see the router itself being used as a DNS server.

You might want to try manually configuring the two servers I used - 24.153.22.67
24.153.23.66
- and see what happens then. It shouldn't take longer than a few seconds to toss them in.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

139.134.5.51 is the Bigpond DNS. I don't know why the router is 2nd, but everything is pretty much auto-configs

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It shouldn't hurt to have the router that way. It's just a little odd.

And since the DNS is the same on both machines, it's *shouldn't* be a DNS thing, but I've learned that you can't routers and networks. They all lie.