I have 3 PCs at home, the first one has a regular dial-up connection and a LAN Adapter, I configured the dial-up for Internet Sharing and the LAN Adapter has an static IP of 192.168.0.1/24, this PC is connected to an unmanaged Belkin switch, the switch has two more Windows XP Pro computers and I configure their LAN adapters for DHCP, when I try to enable the LAN adapter on these 2 computers it says "Acquiring IP address" and then gives me an exclamation sign on the LAN icon which says "Limited or Null connectivity". I disabled the Firewalls and replaced the cabling with no luck... sometimes it works flawless but then it fails upon the next reboot of either PC. I would say it will work after 20 attempts of disabling the NIC and rebooting the PCs

Config is very simple, I have them configured on the same Workgroup..

Please advise,

--Rafael

Hmm that's an interesting issue. It seems that you are doing everything right so it leads me to believe it something with hardware.

I had a similar problem one time with a Realtek NIC. The drivers that XP automatically installed for the NIC were buggy. I got new drivers from the manufactuer's site and my problem was solved. So maybe try that, I'll let you know if I think of anything else. Good Luck, Jon

what if you set them static? Can you ping eachother if you tell them what IP to use?

Is there a DHCP service running?

right click on lan icon and select properties / uncheck the option which says "notify me when this connection has little or no connectivity"

and check whether lan says connected or not and then try...

regards sheik...