This can be a good or a bad situation. Ultimately, the IPs you enter need to be correct so if one isn’t correct then its a bad thing. However, many networks you will have different servers for your default gateway and your DNS. That is the case here at Train Signal. Our Default gateway(layer 3 switch) connects our local network with our public network. Our DNS server is on a physical server on our local network. Each device has a seperate IP address.

In the article and video they were the same due to the network I was working with. Most home routers (dlink, linksys, etc…) end up acting as both the default gateway and DNS for a local home network because you don’t have a seperate DNS server.

Hope this helps and let me know if you have any more questions.

thanks for the simple but very effective video!

However I noticed (in ipconfig /all) my DNS server did not show the same adress as my ”default gateway” is. It is totally different……Is that a bad thing???:P

thanks!!
and greets,

Armand

I’d suggest a couple of things. First would be to make sure the NIC is not looking for an IPv6 address. This can be done by removing the check box next to IPv6 in the Wireless Network Connection Properties panel. Ultimately, I doubt this is the issue because unless the router is sending out a IPv6 IP Address then the IPv6 you have assigned is nothing more than an auto assigned or self assigned IP address which then your system would use the IPv4 address designated to the NIC. As I type right now I’m on a Windows 7 with IPv6 enabled but I’m connected to my router via IPv4.

Second, verify that you have the correct subnet information. Some routers like the one I demo come with the 192.168.1.x subnet (network identifying portion of IP) (with the x being the host identifying portion of the IP address) while other routers may use other subnets like 192.168.0.x. The important part is to make sure your static ip is on the same subnet and you’ve got your gateway and DNS configured properly.

Hope this helps,

Gary a great day

Yes we have! It will be available very soon. Thanks for your suggestion!

Kasia

I’m not exactly sure what you’re having trouble with, but if you don’t have obtain IP automatically enabled, you won’t have DHCP enabled. Static IP addresses disable DHCP so you set your IP address manually instead of via DHCP.

Sounds to me like when you configure your static IP either your Gateway or more likely your DNS is miss configured. When you have your IPs dynamically set, run “ipconfig /all” in your cmd prompt. See what is listed as the gateway and DNS and try using those IPs for gateway and DNS when you configure statically.

Let me know if this helps.

All that means is the IP address you assigned to you computer has already been assigned to another computer or network device whether you assigned it statically or a DHCP server assigned it. Think of an IP like a social security number or a state ID. Everyone has to be different as it helps others locate and identify others.

In this case you need to assign an IP that isn’t used on your network. If you have a DHCP server setup on your wireless router or a Server on your network you’ll want to assign an IP outside the scope(usable #s) that is given to that DHCP server. A common scope or range for a DHCP server on a 192.168.1.0 network is 100-149. You’d want to assign your static IPs outside that range.

Best of luck.

Bye Mitch

No you do not need to have a static IP address to share files. The first place I’d check is to make sure that file and folder sharing and networking discovery is enabled.

Here is a quick link to do just that in Windows 7:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Enable-file-and-printer-sharing

My first question is:

Do you have the firewall on? It’s on by default and a good idea to keep on, but will actually blocks ICMP protocol which is how the ping command communicates. It’s possible they are able to communicate but not ping each other.

Can you access the server by going to \\servername\ ?
Are you sure you have the IP’s on the same subnet?