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Don't forget to uncheck the option 'Prompt for name and password, certificates, etc.' in the connection properties.

Somebody told me another solution (more elegant :) ): once the connection is set to obtain the IP address automatically, add the other IP address by editing directly the Windows registry. It works! The registry key to edit is the following...

No, just a workgroup. Actually I don't use a WINS server. Do you think that's the problem? You can browse the others computers' files just fine. Name resolution works fine.

I'm having this problem with the 'net send' command. I activated the messenger service on every computer and set up the firewall. But it doesn't seem to work! This is the error message: An error occurred while sending a message to <computer_name>. The message alias could not be found on the...

Hmmmm... that's a philosophic matter. Technically I'm using two static IP addresses. But since one of them is obtained by a DHCP server, you can say it's dynamic. Or not? I don't know! :rolleyes:

You don't seem to need more than one IP address on the same NIC; just only one at a time. You basically want to have different profiles (or something like that) so that you can change the configuration quickly and easily. This is not what I needed.

A program I made in Visual Basic. Basically it just asks the DHCP server all the addresses (IP address, subnet mask, DNS servers, etc.) and sets them statically (along with the really static IP address :) ).

I solved the problem with the program I mentioned before.. :)

Not really. It's not mission critical. I think of it as a challenge, nothing more.. :)

Right. No. The only thing I can think of is to set up some application in every computer to get the IP address / subnet mask / DNS server / etc. from the DHCP server and set this all as if they were static addresses.

Messing with the hardware should be the last option! It's not a domain. It's just a workgroup. And I don't have access to the DHCP and DNS servers.. :cry:

There are some computers connected to a switch, and their IP addresses are assigned by a DHCP server. The problem is that these IP addresses don't necessary belong to the same network, so some computers can't see the others using NetBIOS.

What do you mean it's not logically possible? I need to do this on more than one computer, so this is most likely the last option I'll try.. :rolleyes: Besides I don't wanna mess with the hardware.. One of the IP addresses MUST be DHCP-assigned. There's just no other way!

:devious: Is this some sort of Microsoft's TCP/IP limitation, or what I'm trying to do doesn't make sense at all?

As I said before, I need two IP addresses: one of them must be assigned by the DHCP server, and the other one static (i.e. assigned by me :) )

What does the command 'netsh interface ip add address' do then??

I need two IP addresses on the same network interface: one of them is dynamic (assigned by a DHCP server), and the other one is static. Anybody knows how to do this on Windows XP SP 2??