Topic: DHCP works but nothing else

[Stephan Goeldi]

After a complete new parallel installation of NT I was able to receive an IP address from the e-smith-server and to connect to the internet, setting up an i-bay etc.

The next morning I started NT up and wanted to connect again. It didn't. Network Neighborhood doesn't show anything. Ipconfig /all gives me the following information (in german):

Windows NT IP-Konfiguration

Host-Name . . . . . . . . . : buero.e-smith-server
DNS-Server. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Knotentyp . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
NetBIOS-Bereichs-ID . . . . :
IP-Routing aktiviert. . . . : Nein
WINS-Proxy aktiviert. . . . : Nein
NetBIOS-Auswertung mit DNS : Nein

Ethernet-Adapter El90x1:

Beschreibung. . . . . . . . : 3Com EtherLink PCI
Physikalische Adresse . . . : 00-01-02-D9-A3-E9
DHCP aktiviert. . . . . . . : Ja
IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.65
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Standard-Gateway. . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP-Server . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Prim„rer WINS-Server. . . . : 192.168.1.1
Lease erhalten. . . . . . . : Mittwoch, 21. M„rz 2001 21:29:21
Lease l„uft ab. . . . . . . : Donnerstag, 22. M„rz 2001 21:29:21


route print shows me the following:

Aktive Routen:
Netzwerk Ziel Netzmaske Gateway Schnittst. Metrik
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.65 1
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.65 192.168.1.65 1
192.168.1.65 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.1.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.65 192.168.1.65 1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 192.168.1.65 192.168.1.65 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.65 192.168.1.65 1


These are my network settings in NT (perhaps bad translated from german):

Workgroup = E-SMITH

Installed Services:
Workstationservice
Computer Search Service
Simple TCP/IP Services
NetBIOS Interface
RPC Configuration
Server Service

Installed Protocol is only TCP/IP
Receive IP-Address from DHCP
DNS = 192.168.1.1
Host name ist the Computer name of the Workstation (buero)
Primary WINS server = 192.168.1.1
LMHOSTS is activated, DNS not
Routing: IP Forwarding is not active


So my workstation receives an IP address from the server. I cannot do a Ping. It shows me a timeout. I don't understand why it worked the last time without any problem and the next time, without any other change, it doesn't work anymore. I know that most people say "I didn't change anything on the workstation", and I know that this is not true in most cases, but in this case I did change absolutely nothing.

By the way: After the second try I shut down both and made a very COLD reboot (after waiting for about 30 seconds).

Did I miss something?

[Jelke van der Meer]

If you are sure that your cable connections are ok and you can not do a ping to 192.168.1.1 look in your NT system log. Are all services loaded? Did you reapply the service pack after installing drivers from your NT CD?