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[Karolis Lyvens <karolisl AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:46:56AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, John Beck wrote:
> 
> > It sounds like you need to assign an IP to XP (since automatic won't
> > work as it doesn't sound like there's a dhcp server). Use 192.168.1.1
> > (netmask 255.255.255.0) for XP and 192.168.1.2 (netmask 255.255.255.0)
> > for linux.
> 
> At one point I got to a window where it told me that XP already had an IP 
> number, which I tried to ping from linux.  But at another point it told me 
> there was no IP number.  How do I assign Windows computers an IP number?

Start->Settings->Control Panel->Network Connections (you may have
to switch to "Classical view" to see it)->Local Area Connection's
properties (this is default name for NIC interface in XP)(Alt-Enter or
right click->properties, "Internet Prococol (TCP/IP)" properties. There,
you can set IP address, gw, netmask, DNS.

As a note, you can quickly see current IP address in XP by typing
"ipconfig" to cmd prompt (Start->Run->cmd<enter>). More info about
ipconfig's syntax: http://www.ss64.com/nt/ipconfig.html