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Dear Lists:
 
I got a Vista machine from my father-in-law (compulsive hardware buyer - he
has about 12 machines and an equal number of printers - gave me a color
laser as well - he had 2 - wasn't using either.  He's 85.  But I digress..).
I used the restore disk so it's a clean machine - just like out of the box.
 
The Vista machine can't see the network or the internet.  I got it on the
internet briefly by shutting down the modem and router and the Vista machine
(per advice in diagnose and repair), but that hosed the network connections
for the other machines.  So I shut everybody down, cycled the modem and
router.  Now everybody is back except the Vista machine.
 
I see that there's two type of networks - public and private.  This one is
set to public.  Don't know what that's all about.
 
Diagnose and repair also has options to automatically get new IP setting,
and reset the network adapter.  Neither worked.  But the one time I was able
to find the dialog box with the IP address I see that it's not a
192.168.1.xxx like the rest of the machines on the network.  But I cannot to
save me find that dialog box again.
 
But I'm guessing that's the problem - not picking up a good network address
from the router.
 
In the Local Area Connection Status it shows many packets send - zero
received.
 
Now you'd think that Vista would be able to do this by itself.  But
apparently not.
 
BTW - I turned off the Windows Firewall just to eliminate that variable.
And no other AV or firewall software is running.
 
What am I overlooking?  Is there something simple that gets this Vista box
on my LAN and out to the internet?
 
 

MTIA,

 	
	
 

Rocky Smolin

Beach Access Software

858-259-4334

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