VPC, Leopard and the internet

ricsibu · Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

I'm not 100% sure this is a Leopard problem but---I can no longer
access the internet from my VPC running XP. Has worked "great" for 3
years. Now I can't seem to connect. Maybe it's a Mac side problem or
an XP problem. I can access Mac files from the PC and vice versa. Is
there a list of things to try somewhere for VPC/internet problems? I
downloaded 7.0.3 somewhere along the line.

And another related question: does the local workgroup name on the PC
side have to agree with whatever is on the Mac side? Seems like it
should, but I don't know how that connection to the DHCP server is
made from the PC side. Any help would be appreciated.

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PIMac · Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

On Dec 27, 11:52 am, ricsibu wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure this is a Leopard problem but---I can no longer
> access the internet from my VPC running XP. Has worked "great" for 3
> years. Now I can't seem to connect. Maybe it's a Mac side problem or
> an XP problem. I can access Mac files from the PC and vice versa. Is
> there a list of things to try somewhere for VPC/internet problems? I
> downloaded 7.0.3 somewhere along the line.
>
> And another related question: does the local workgroup name on the PC
> side have to agree with whatever is on the Mac side? Seems like it
> should, but I don't know how that connection to the DHCP server is
> made from the PC side. Any help would be appreciated.

Oops. Don't know where that author name came from. Sorry

Paul Power · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 41

On Dec 27, 1:54 pm, PIMac wrote:
> On Dec 27, 11:52 am, ricsibu wrote:
>
> > I'm not 100% sure this is a Leopard problem but---I can no longer
> > access the internet from my VPC running XP. Has worked "great" for 3
> > years. Now I can't seem to connect. Maybe it's a Mac side problem or
> > an XP problem. I can access Mac files from the PC and vice versa. Is
> > there a list of things to try somewhere for VPC/internet problems? I
> > downloaded 7.0.3 somewhere along the line.
>
> > And another related question: does the local workgroup name on the PC
> > side have to agree with whatever is on the Mac side? Seems like it
> > should, but I don't know how that connection to the DHCP server is
> > made from the PC side. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Oops. Don't know where that author name came from. Sorry

Sounds like you may be experiencing DNS problems. Do some ping tests
and let us know the results.

grjlmitch · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

On Dec 28, 3:50 pm, Paul Power wrote:

> Sounds like you may be experiencing DNS problems. Do some ping tests
> and let us know the results.

After forcing the DNS setting to my router's IP address, I'm now back
in business. Thanks for the suggestion. I must admit that I diddled
with lots of settings without knowing what the result would be before
getting things working again. 'tis a mystery why after 3 years the
connection was lost. The VPC has a (to me) weird IP address, but when
I changed it to the range my router uses and other stuff on my
wireless network, I again lost the internet connection from my VPC.
So, I obviously changed it back. I thought the VPC IP address would
show up in my Linksys DHCP Clients table with the rest of my stuff but
no. Oh, well. Wish I was smart enough to know this stuff, but I'm
just happy it's working again.