Forcing DHCP from Pocket PC

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Deborah Finn wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am connecting directly to a Windows 2000 machine from my IPAQ.
> This works now, but only once I renew all adaptors on the windows
> 2000 machine. It then picks up the ip address assigned to it by the
> iPAQ .
>
> Is there any way to do this without having to renew the adaptors on
> the 2000 machine everytime?
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.
>
> Deborah

Umm, I think you need to be a bit more explicit about what exactly you're
doing. In any likely scenario, the Win2k machine is assigning an IP address
to the ipaq, certainly not the other way around, since your ipaq is not
running a DHCP server. The adapter in the Win2k machine that the ipaq is
connecting must have a static ip address, so renewing the adapters in the
Win2k machine shouldn't affect it.

Tony

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

OK, what's going on is your machines are set to get an ip address via dhcp,
but there is no dhcp server. The simplest solution is to allocate a static
ip address in a private range to both machines. In the tcp/ip propterties on
the win2k machine, set the adapter to "use the following address" 10.0.0.1,
subnet mask 255.255.255.0, and the one in the ipaq to 10.0.0.2, same subnet,
and you should be done.

Alternatively, if you have a dialup connection or a second network adapter
used for internet access, you could enable internet connection sharing on
the internet connection.

Tony

Deborah Finn wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> I put the ethernet adaptor in my iPAQ. Then got to look at the IP
> setttings for it (at this point, I am not connected to anything)...it
> waits a few moments and comes up with a 169 address.
>
> I then go to my W2K machine, do an ipconfig, and it tells me that the
> ip address for that machine is 0.0.0.0 ..I then connect my iPAQ to
> the machine and try to connect - nothing happens. I then did an
> ipconfig/renew on the W2K machine and it waits for a while and comes
> back with a 169 address. I can them open the path to that machine
> from the iPAQ.
>
> what am i doing wrong?
>
> Thanks
> Deborah
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