Peer to peer networking on windows xp

January 8th, 2009
  • I have a small (6 machine)peer-to-peer network at my office, and have added a 7th computer. All run windows xp, all are dell dimension machines. The newest computer can access the network fine, but I get a warning message beside the icon on the lower menu bar: "LIMITED OR NO (NETWORK) CONNECTIVITY...this problem occurred because the network did not assign a network address to the computer". I use one machine as the "server", and it runs XP pro. (I also have one network printer on the network, and the installation technician manually applied a network address to it) All the others run XP home/small business. This a new message, none of the other computers display this message. What is going on ? Is there a fix (such as manually assigning an address )


  • Hm... I dont understand that. You have a peer2peer network with a server? A P2P Architecture: Internet <-> 1. Workstation <--> 2. Workstation <--> 3... A Client-Server Network: Internet <-> Server <-> Switch or Hub <-> All Other Computers Wich Services (dns,ftp,http) use u at the Server? Have you static Ips or do you have a DHCP Server? Sry for my bad english...


  • As eddi2k asked it would really help to know if you have a DHCP server or if your workstations are set up with static IPs. If you don't know, the easiest way to find out is go onto the "server" machine, go to run from the start menu and type "cmd" and press OK. A MS-DOS prompt will pop up, now type "ipconfig /all" and press ENTER. Somewhere in the output (you may need to scroll up to see it) there will be a line that says "DHCP Enabled" with a "Yes" or "No" next to it. If it says "Yes" this is most likely your problem but it should be happening to other computers as well. I can help more once I know how your network is set up. If it DHCP is enabled you will want to write down some of that other info, specifically the Subnet Mask, the Default Gateway, and the DNS Servers.


  • australia2005... What Service Pack is on the new PC? Some expansion on the nature of your network, as suggested in the comment by eddi2k-ga would be helpful. Also, see if the hotfix in this MS Knowledge Base article helps your situation: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884020 Let me know... sublime1-ga


  • Also take a look at this post on the MSFN forum: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=56396


  • Here's more on the MS hotfix and the issue in general, from PChell.com: http://www.pchell.com/support/limitedconnectivity.shtml







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