computer not found

At home I have a small LAN connecting four Win98 laptops through a
switch/HUB. All four are in the same workgroup and the TCP/IP settings are
set on auto.
Yesterday I took one laptop and went to an Internet Cafe where I had no
problems connecting to their network. All I had to do was to connect their
cable to my PCMCIA Ethernet card and I was connected.
The problem started when I went home and reconnected the laptop to the LAN.
None of the other laptops saw this laptop nor did it see any of the others.
When I tried "Release all" and "Renew all" (Start-Run-winipcfg), I got a
DHCP error message. After turning the laptop on and off a few times and
changing "Primary Network Logon" back and forth, restarting the laptop it
finally appeared again.
How can I easily go from network to network without going through all this?
Thanks,
AJS

"" wrote
> At home I have a small LAN connecting four Win98 laptops
> through a
> switch/HUB. All four are in the same workgroup and the TCP/IP
> settings are
> set on auto.
> Yesterday I took one laptop and went to an Internet Cafe where
> I had no
> problems connecting to their network. All I had to do was to
> connect their
> cable to my PCMCIA Ethernet card and I was connected.
> The problem started when I went home and reconnected the
> laptop to the LAN.
> None of the other laptops saw this laptop nor did it see any
> of the others.
> When I tried "Release all" and "Renew all"
> (Start-Run-winipcfg), I got a
> DHCP error message. After turning the laptop on and off a few
> times and
> changing "Primary Network Logon" back and forth, restarting
> the laptop it
> finally appeared again.
> How can I easily go from network to network without going
> through all this?
> Thanks,
> AJ

The easyist (but not the chepist) method to have computers that (more
or less) should configure them selfs is to have a DHCP server of some
nature, lots of routers are equiped with DHCP servers.

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