I have been trying (in vain!) to connect to the internet on a computer that has just been added to a LAN in an office. This LAN has all Windows 2000 machines and there are 8 PCs including mine. My IP address starts with 169.254 where as everyone elses starts 192.168 also my subnet mask is 255.255.0.0 whereas on the working machines it´s 255.255.255.0

I can access every computer through Network Neighbourhood but when i try and ping their addresses i get 100% packet loss! The only other computer than my own that i can successfully ping is the server.

Can anyone suggest any way to resolve this?

Cheers

Is your IP set as 'obtain IP address automactically' ?

yes, and also the DNS is set to obtain automatically.

:bouncing:bumpety bump:bouncing:

PS: I have forced my IP address and now i can ping the server and every other computer and get a response but still can´t get on the net from my machine. I have checked the DHCP settings and my forced IP is within that range and is not conflicting with any of the others. I´ve tried removing all protocols but still no luck :(

sorry to bring an old topic back but i just sorted it out. It appears that it was Mcafee, I uninstalleed it restarted and everything was fine. Hope that might help someone else (i have since re-installed Mcafee with no probs)