re: Using VPC to connect to Internet

use ipconfig to refresh DHCP

[simmerdown]

Gordon, if you haven't yet solved your problem ...

First, make sure that you're using DHCP to obtain an IP (instead on manually specifying it). Caveat: the following instructions are for XP Home. If you're running a different flavor of Windows, some of the details might vary.

Go to Start > Control Panel > Network Connections, right-click on your Local Area Connection, choose Status. It'll pop up a new window titled "Local Area Connection Status" with the "Support" tab highlighted. First line should read Address Type: Assigned by DHCP.

If it doesn't, then click on the "General" tab, click "Properties", and in the "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties" window (under the "General" tab) make sure that both Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically are selected.

Second, go to Start > Run. Type in

cmd

One you get a command line, type

ipconfig/release

and hit enter. Wait for it to show the results (you'll see 0.0.0.0 IPs on a few of the lines) and then type

ipconfig/renew

and hit enter.

Worked for me last night setting up VPC with XP Home. Hope it solves your problem.

David

p.s. When all else fails, you may want to reboot after changing network settings. Not sure if it's as necessary in XP as it was in previous versions, but it can't hurt.

[Macguru]

Hi simmerdown,

Welcome to the board! I believe you are referring to this post?

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Thank you for your answer.

[simmerdown]

You're welcome. Thanks for including the link to the previous post (it was closed for posting, thus my new thread).

Was just trying to figure out the problem last night, and after spending a good bit of time in XP's Internet Connection Wizard, I thought I'd save someone else the time.