Laptopon a wireless network at the office and home.AutoIP and manual. Is it possible?

metomeyametomeya New
edited May 2006 in Science & Tech
I'm taking care of a office network cause I'm a lot cheaper than a $150 an hour tech guy. So they don't except me to have ALL the answers.

But here is one question I didn't know the answer to.

At the office I had to manually input the IP address, submask, default gateway, and DNS server info for each laptop they had. Under Wireless network properties, -> Internet protocal -> properties ->

They asked me well can I log in on both my wireless Home and wireless Office network for the internet?

From what I gathered, his home is automatically assigns the IP address, which probably don't match the manually input I assigned his computer.


The Question:
So how do I set it so that he can log in at work and his home network? One with automatic IP addresses assigned, and one with them manually put in?

:Rocker:

Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Sometimes yes, are they using 192.x.x.x IP's or 10.x.x.x IP's?

    For example on the networks we run at work for several hotels, some people manage to use our networks with a 192.x.x.x address, even though our servers assign a 10.x.x.x IP, but the rest of the time they call in asking "WtF?!" and I have to set their IP's to manually assign so they cn recieve a 10.x.x.x address....

    However, if the office network your working on is something like 192.168.1.x then, chances are their computers should still work with their home networks. I think you could use an alternate configuration though.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Set up the wireless router to act as a DHCP server. Have it assign IP addresses in the 192.168.XXX.XXX range. You just need the DNS info so you can add that to the wireless router.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    I don't think there is a choice in using DHCP, sounded like it had to be manually set at the office. I never done this myself, but if it has XP you should be able to assign an alternate configuration for the IP... In which if the current setup doesn't work, try putting the manually assigned IP's in the alternate config, and have the main config set for DHCP.
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