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Asked by jmfairchild in Peer to Peer, Wireless Network Cards & Adapters, TCP/IP
I am attempting to fix a friends laptop with a strange problem. This friend is living with us and is using our wireless network. The laptop comes up every minute or two with the error message: "Windows - System Error. There is an IP address conflict with another system on the network". I am very familiar with networking and manage my home network of 3 laptops and 5 PCs which run from my home, my son's trailer next door, and my mother-in-law's mobile home on the other side of us, all wireless. We do not DHCP, all PCs/Laptops have manually assigned IP addresses. I assigned an IP to the laptop in question. Once when the laptop lost connectivity, I noticed that the laptop was connected to my wireless router as a peer to peer connection, all my other PCs/Laptops connect as a wireless network connection. If I continually refresh the the list that this laptop sees in the "Choose a wireless network" window, it occasionally will show two connections for my wireless router, one as a wireless network, and one as a computer-to-computer network. I am now sure that this is the source of the IP conflict. If I connect to the computer-to-computer network, I get no accees to anything, but IP address conflict goes away. When I connect to the wireless network, I can connect to the internet and the local network, but I get the continual IP address conflict, and intermittent drops if I try to do anything that needs a continual connection. I believe that some peer-to-peer software was installed on this laptop at one time and it allows the laptop to see my network as computer-to-computer. I have uninstalled all unnecessary software, removed and re-added all the available network adapters, but to no avail. I am guessing that there is some sort of network software/setting/registry entry that is allowing this to occur. I have searched high and low for an answer and find none, so I am here looking for answers from my old friends. :)
TIA - Jim
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