Network name assigned to wrong network connection

[pbb]

Hi all,

To start off with; I know installing X-drive (see http://www.xdrive.com) was asking for problems. But since every problem can be a way to learn something more about how things work, I would like to know if someone can enlighten me on this problem.

I'm running a LAN (4 PC's, one networked All-in-One, a few other devices) with fixed IP's. All used IP's lie between 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.9. On my own PC I've got a mess of network connections, from 2 NIC's (one disabled), a 1394 connector, a VPN, and since recently a loopback connection for X-drive.

The biggest problem now is, that my network name (P4-3000) has been connected to the IP that X-drive is using (10.254.254.253), not the IP for the active NIC. Which bring me to the interesting question; how is it decided which network connection the network name is mapped to, and how do I change it when this goes wrong like in my case?

Thanks for any insights,

Peter

[pbb]

Here's an example of trying to reach my PC from one of the other PCs on the network:

C:\>ping p4-3000

Pinging p4-3000 [10.254.254.253] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 10.254.254.253:
	Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

The real IP address of my PC is 10.0.0.3, not 10.254.254.253...