Hey everyone,
I have just taken a part-time mac technician role for an adult education college in London. I am looking after one room of old emacs (v 2.0) connected via ethernet. The college does not have the budget for a mac server so therefore the emacs are currently leasing their IP addresses through DHCP settings via the main college's PC network.
The emacs were running OS9.2 when I first started and I thought it would be good to run OSX with Classic (version OS10.2.2) since it was already installed on the emacs.
The problem I'm having is that the first machine (my test machine) I tried this on is unable to connect to the Internet, the error message being 'Specified server not found'. These are the steps I have taken to try and fix the problem:
- Got the college's PC support team out to check ports, IP's etc. They said the IP address was fine and everything looked ok. They typed in Google's IP address and it bought up the home page ok to my suprise but wouldn't resolve www.google.com or any other domain names. They said it was a DHCP issue and probably something specific to OSX and left it at that
- Wiped the machine completely and reinstalled only OSX plus updated it with the combo updater from apple.com to take it to OS10.2.8 (same error message) and without OS9
- Got a static IP address so I could test whether the emac could resolve a name that way and it worked.
Seems like it just doesn't like getting it's IP via DHCP. Can anyone help pls? The emac is bare of any 3rd party programs and I haven't even installed any apps on it yet. I really don't know what's going on. Aaarrghhh...
Thanks in advance!
Jodie
I have just taken a part-time mac technician role for an adult education college in London. I am looking after one room of old emacs (v 2.0) connected via ethernet. The college does not have the budget for a mac server so therefore the emacs are currently leasing their IP addresses through DHCP settings via the main college's PC network.
The emacs were running OS9.2 when I first started and I thought it would be good to run OSX with Classic (version OS10.2.2) since it was already installed on the emacs.
The problem I'm having is that the first machine (my test machine) I tried this on is unable to connect to the Internet, the error message being 'Specified server not found'. These are the steps I have taken to try and fix the problem:
- Got the college's PC support team out to check ports, IP's etc. They said the IP address was fine and everything looked ok. They typed in Google's IP address and it bought up the home page ok to my suprise but wouldn't resolve www.google.com or any other domain names. They said it was a DHCP issue and probably something specific to OSX and left it at that
- Wiped the machine completely and reinstalled only OSX plus updated it with the combo updater from apple.com to take it to OS10.2.8 (same error message) and without OS9
- Got a static IP address so I could test whether the emac could resolve a name that way and it worked.
Seems like it just doesn't like getting it's IP via DHCP. Can anyone help pls? The emac is bare of any 3rd party programs and I haven't even installed any apps on it yet. I really don't know what's going on. Aaarrghhh...
Thanks in advance!
Jodie