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Oh, both machines are connected to a D-Link switch. &nbsp;Cables have been tested and are fine. &nbsp;I can ping loopback on both machines. &nbsp;
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Oh, both machines are connected to a D-Link switch.  Cables have been tested and are fine.  I can ping loopback on both machines.  

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Can you ping by name to the server ?<br />
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IF DHCP is on the server and the machine is not getting it, then it may be a local NIC driver issue or other hardware.<br />
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I hope this helps !
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Can you ping by name to the server ?

IF DHCP is on the server and the machine is not getting it, then it may be a local NIC driver issue or other hardware.


I hope this helps !

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if i manually set the ip of client to 192.168.1.x &nbsp; &nbsp;it will connect. &nbsp;but here is the weird thing: &nbsp;even with the default gateway set up to the ip of the server (192.168.1.16) it will not ping it, even though it shows that as the default gateway. &nbsp;Any ideas what is going on here?<br />

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if i manually set the ip of client to 192.168.1.x    it will connect.  but here is the weird thing:  even with the default gateway set up to the ip of the server (192.168.1.16) it will not ping it, even though it shows that as the default gateway.  Any ideas what is going on here?


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I have an SBS 2003 machine with one NIC assigned 192.168.1.16. &nbsp;I set up an XP Pro machine with dynamically assigned IP and DHCP. &nbsp;The NIC in the XP pro machine won't get an IP address unless I manually set the DNS to 192.168.1.16. &nbsp;But even then, <a href="http://servername/connectcomputer" rel="ugc">http://servername/connectcomputer</a>&nbsp;won't work. &nbsp;What am I missing here?
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I have an SBS 2003 machine with one NIC assigned 192.168.1.16.  I set up an XP Pro machine with dynamically assigned IP and DHCP.  The NIC in the XP pro machine won't get an IP address unless I manually set the DNS to 192.168.1.16.  But even then, http://servername/connectcomputer won't work.  What am I missing here?

Why won't /connectcomputer work?

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