what you do is specify an ip address as 192.168.0.36 and that last set of numbers could be a range from 15ish to 252 and subnet of 255.255.255.0 and then when it tries to access it will see that that is not a valid IP and will grab a good IP
and if you have not been keeping up with the...
I know you say the problem is resolved but in the experience i have had, If you specify an IP to a non routeable IP it will pull one that it can get the proper DNS from
Me and my buddy set up a peer to peer network my XP laptop and his OSX laptop
all you have to do is plug the cross over cable btwn the computers and then boot both up
run the network set up wizard on the XP machine and then shutdown and restart the OSX machine and then they should both be...
Either i am blind or i always seem to look for this when i am tired so i am missing it. but if you have some corrupted system prefs. I know in OS 9 and earlier you could just trash the pref reboot and then it would be all good. but in OS X how do you go about rebuilding a system pref?
The problems you are having i researched it with a customer i was working with and it ended up being her modem needed to be reinstalled. Even though it seemed weird because it would give server could not be found then disconnect. I had her connect and just sit there and with in 15 seconds it...