Can't connect to internet with vista.

azaniah · 1 Dec 2007 at 15:57

My house mate just bought a pc with Vista Home Premium, which neither of us have ever used.

I have a 16 Gigabit switch, attached to that is my ST585v6.

It's assigned him an IP address, and I can ping other machines on my network, but I can't get it to see the internet.

All seems a bit different from XP, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Cheers...

Duke · 1 Dec 2007 at 16:38

What happens when he opens IE? Check the settings in IE7 (tools -> internet options -> connections tab).

swinnie · 1 Dec 2007 at 16:51

Have you added the Vista machine to the workgroup?

azaniah · 1 Dec 2007 at 16:56

Yeah, it was added to workgroup IP4 was activated, but apparantly it can't read the DNS settings from the router.

Added those in manually and it seems to work now..

Is there a fix for that, as that kinda defeats the object of getting the DNS entries automatically...