Hi Hilmar

I plugged the machine into my router in the office to see if the fault followed, it worked fine.

Took the machine back to the customers office & plugged it back into the router & it now works?

Could plugging the machine onto another router/network have reset something that was causing a problem?

>Did you try the following command? It gives more detailed information than ipconfig alone.
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>ipconfig /all
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>>Hi Hilmar
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>>The machine is set to get IP Address automatically, IPCONFIG shows me the address of one of the XP machines that is working, and the preferred gateway address, but doesn't tell me the primary DNS address or secondary DNS address
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>>Rob
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>>>>Hi
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>>>>I'm looking after a customer who has several machines on a peer to peer network. All of the machines a XP PRO SP3
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>>>>All of the machines are plugged into a DLINK router, this gives them access to the internet.
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>>>>All of the machines detect the network settings automatically, IE no fixed IP Address, no fixed default gateway, no fixed subnet max or first DNS Address, or Secondary DNS Address
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>>>>One of the machines has been replaced by a Windows 7 Home machine.
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>>>>The windows 7 machine does not appear to be detecting the settings automatically. I've brought this machine back to my office and plugged it into my router and the settings have been detected, and it accesses the internet fine.
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>>>>Is there something I am missing? I do I work out the settings that one of the machines is using?
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>>>You should check whether the non-working machine is indeed set up to "Get an IP address automatically" (which technically means it uses the DHCP protocol to get an address).
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>>>To get the address of a computer that is working, open a command window and type the "ipconfig" command, or "ipconfig /all" for more details. You can assign another device an IP address in the same subnet (this often means the first three bytes have to be the same), but run the risk that the DHCP server (the router) has already - more or less randomly - assigned the same IP address to another device.