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[Espio]

Right.

We've just got a new PC in at work, it's a pacard bell 2.4ghz celeron job and the rest of the PC's in the office are old pentium 2's running Windows 2000. We have one PC in the corner running as the server and all the PC's are networked together and sharing the internet (from a hub I think). The new PC we just got is running Windows XP and will not detect the bloody network (as far as I can tell) or the internet and I need to set it up. It DID detect the network and one stage and you could access all the stuff on the network but my co-worker reinstalled windows and now as far as I can see you cant access the stuff on the server. The main priority is getting windows xp to detect and share the internet connection, I couldnt get IE to detect it even when the network was working.

Windows XP network wizard is a bit crap, I've spent ages before at home trying to get it to detect the internet connection from my router and it loves taking hours to find the bloody thing.

And yes, I suck at my job.

Any help? Please?

 

[ced]

Well first does your server or router or switch provide DHCP? In other words do you need an static IP?

DHCP is default, and if everything worked before someone changed settings, maybe thats it.

 

[DarienA]

As already asked does the server do DHCP?.... Check Workgroup Name... I'd also try pinging some of the other PC's from this new PC. Verify that your network cables are snug in, etc...

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Perform loopback pings as well, to make sure the NICS are all functioning as they should.

ping 127.0.0.1

Windows XP is insanely easy to network. Run the network wizard on XP and let it know how you intend to connect.