help with wireless... again

i have a wireless network setup

i have setup ICS

the network is

192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0

the PC address is set to 192.168.0.1 i was told by the OS that any computers
connecting to the network should obtain their address automatically

so i set my laptop to obtain its address automatically

i have had loadsa addresses on laptop

192.168.0.105
192.168.0.16
192.168.0.32

loads

but all of a sudden now on the PC i always have address 192.168.0.1 but
whenever the laptop aquires its address automatically from the network which
i have named "HOME WIRELESS" the IP of the laptop becomes an IP starting
with

169.x.x.x/255.255.0.0

im not sure if the subnet mask is correct it may be 255.0.0.0

either way

it isnt acquiring the correct address it should be a 192.168.x.x address

i am using zone alarm and do have it setup as ICS/NAT gateway on PC with
address as 192.168.0.1 and do have the laptop setup with zone alarm as a
client with gateway address as 192.168.0.1

I have tried manually giving the laptop an ip address of 192.168.0.10 and i
can connect to my shared drives

however the Internet Connection sharing does not appear to work

even when i disable Zone alarm on both platforms so it cant be zone alarm
causing the problem

so can anyone explain why my laptop is acquiring the wrong IP address but
appears to connecting the home wireless network?

please help i would appreciate it loads!!

Thanks (in advance)

Christo

"Christo" <lessthanchris666no (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>i have a wireless network setup
>
> i have setup ICS
>
> the network is
>
> 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
>
> the PC address is set to 192.168.0.1 i was told by the OS that any
> computers connecting to the network should obtain their address
> automatically
>
> so i set my laptop to obtain its address automatically
>
> i have had loadsa addresses on laptop
>
> 192.168.0.105
> 192.168.0.16
> 192.168.0.32
>
> loads
>
> but all of a sudden now on the PC i always have address 192.168.0.1 but
> whenever the laptop aquires its address automatically from the network
> which i have named "HOME WIRELESS" the IP of the laptop becomes an IP
> starting with
>
> 169.x.x.x/255.255.0.0
>
> im not sure if the subnet mask is correct it may be 255.0.0.0
>
> either way
>
> it isnt acquiring the correct address it should be a 192.168.x.x address
>
> i am using zone alarm and do have it setup as ICS/NAT gateway on PC with
> address as 192.168.0.1 and do have the laptop setup with zone alarm as a
> client with gateway address as 192.168.0.1
>
> I have tried manually giving the laptop an ip address of 192.168.0.10 and
> i can connect to my shared drives
>
> however the Internet Connection sharing does not appear to work
>
> even when i disable Zone alarm on both platforms so it cant be zone alarm
> causing the problem
>
> so can anyone explain why my laptop is acquiring the wrong IP address but
> appears to connecting the home wireless network?
>
> please help i would appreciate it loads!!
>
> Thanks (in advance)
>
> Christo
>

Please NOTE: i am on an ad-hoc network not a network with a router

> please help i would appreciate it loads!!
>
> Thanks (in advance)
>
> Christo

That looks like the default windows address when it cant find a DHCP
server. You sure DHCP is working on the laptop ?.

Dave

--
For what we are about to balls up may common sense prevent us doing it
again
in the future!!

"Dave Stanton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
>> please help i would appreciate it loads!!
>>
>> Thanks (in advance)
>>
>> Christo
>
> That looks like the default windows address when it cant find a DHCP
> server. You sure DHCP is working on the laptop ?.
>
> Dave
>
> --
> For what we are about to balls up may common sense prevent us doing it
> again
> in the future!!

how would i go about determineing if DHCP is working on the laptop?

I dont use windows firewall however in the settings HHCP is not ticked as
exception, should i try this?

otherwise i am lost

"Dave Stanton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>> please help i would appreciate it loads!!
>>
>> Thanks (in advance)
>>
>> Christo
>
> That looks like the default windows address when it cant find a DHCP
> server. You sure DHCP is working on the laptop ?.
>
> Dave
>
> --
> For what we are about to balls up may common sense prevent us doing it
> again
> in the future!!

just deleted the home wireless network, setup another one and it works fine

i tried doing ICS without DHCP

gave laptop static IP address etc, and set the DNS server as 192.168.0.1 and
the gateway as 192.168.0.1 and laptop had static ip
192.168.0.12/255.255.255.0 yet ICS wouldn't work

deleted network re booted laptop and desktop ICS worked

dunno what was goin on before?