cover wrote:
>
> I've had a successful home network with 3 computers on the network,
> now as I try to get my laptop to see the network, I get "Windows -
> System Error There is an IP address conflict with another system on
> the network" that I can't seem to get rid of.

Networking - General

http://www.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm
http://www.homenethelp.com/home-network.asp
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dccmain.htm
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/category04

Networking - NT/XP Specific

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homenetworking/
http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/winxpnetworking/
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813936
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...d/default.mspx




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On 12 May 2006 23:44:03 -0500, Plato <|@|.|> wrote:

>
>Networking - General
>
>http://www.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm
>http://www.homenethelp.com/home-network.asp
>http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dccmain.htm
>http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/category04
>
>Networking - NT/XP Specific
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homenetworking/
>http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/winxpnetworking/
>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813936
>http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...d/default.mspx


Great links - thank you. :-)

On Fri, 12 May 2006 21:10:07 -0700, cover
spake thusly:

>I've had a successful home network with 3 computers on the network,
>now as I try to get my laptop to see the network, I get "Windows -
>System Error There is an IP address conflict with another system on
>the network" that I can't seem to get rid of.
>
>The laptop can see the home network but can't seem to establish it's
>own IP even when attempting to 'renew'.

One of your other machines is reserving the IP address.
Just out of curiosity, did you at one time use Static
IP's on your systems?

Open a command prompt and run IPConfig to see
what address it's trying to use and then go to each
of the systems and do the same thing and see if one
of them is already using it.


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cover wrote:
>

You're welcome.

> >Networking - General
> >
> >http://www.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm
> >http://www.homenethelp.com/home-network.asp
> >http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dccmain.htm
> >http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/
> >http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/category04
> >
> >Networking - NT/XP Specific
> >
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homenetworking/
> >http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/winxpnetworking/
> >http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813936
> >http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...d/default.mspx
>
> Great links - thank you. :-)