Server address is wrong, yet Touch connects

[JohnSwenson]

I wonder why they didn't make it a bit easier to assign a static IP address. I must admit, I just assumed, you couldn't do it! I guess it would do the same if you turned off the DHCP server on your network temporarily while you set up the networking.

Yes you can turn off DHCP in the router and it does the same thing. As long as you have a connection to something and it can't get a DHCP address, then it will prompt for a manual address.

If you don't have a connection the "there is no connection" codes takes precedence and assigns a generic address. The set a static address only kicks in when DHCP fails.

John S.

[stereoptic]

I just realizzed that I don't have an internet connection on the mac mini. I connect to the router and can ping and connect to other computers on the network, but no internet. Network diagnostics and rebootibg modem and router didn't either. I then changed back to an automatic DHCP address and it connected. Switched back to a manual address 192. 168.1.156 and was blocked from internet.

I nailed an address to my laptop (Windows 7) 192.168.1.157 and no problems there.

Am I overlooking something?

[Mnyb]

I just realizzed that I don't have an internet connection on the mac mini. I connec to the router and can ping and connect to other computers on the network, but no internet. Network diagnostics and rebootibg modem and router didn't either. I then changed back to an automatic DHCP address and it connected. Switched back to a manual address 192. 168.1.156 and was blocked from internet.

I nailed an address to my laptop (Windows 7) 192.168.1.157 and no problems there.

Am I overlooking something?

When using static ip don't forget to assign a DNS server manually, this could be the routers ip if it does dns or your ISP's dns server

Edit: and of course subnetmask when you dhcp there is more than thannthenip that's get set.

[stereoptic]

When using static ip don't forget to assign a DNS server manually, this could be the routers ip if it does dns or your ISP's dns server

Edit: and of course subnetmask when you dhcp there is more than thannthenip that's get set.

Thanks. That was the first thing I tried actually, but still no internet. I'll have to check, I am not sure if I looked at the subnet mask, though. Doing a search on the internets I see this is a known issue. There may be some other steps involved like turning wi-fi off, rebooting, removing the password in the keychain, removing location, adding a new location, recycling the router, etc. I haven't taken a real scientific approach, however, just tried this and that without a set plan.

I'm getting off thread topic here, though. If the problem persists I'll start a new thread in General discussions. Thanks for the help thus far!!!

[Mnyb]

Yea iI'm definitely rusty on the Mac/apple way of doing things their routers seems to be at odds what's considered normal UI usually, is it not also soo that some airpots have a guest network actually two networks in one router to confuse things further ? Or did I confuse it with another device ?
( having the player on the guest network and server on the main network would break server discovery )

[stereoptic]

Yea iI'm definitely rusty on the Mac/apple way of doing things their routers seems to be at odds what's considered normal UI usually, is it not also soo that some airpots have a guest network actually two networks in one router to confuse things further ? Or did I confuse it with another device ?
( having the player on the guest network and server on the main network would break server discovery )

I'm not sure about that. I'm not going through an Airport router, I have the Linkysys WRT45SG

[Mnyb]

I'm not sure about that. I'm not going through an Airport router, I have the Linkysys WRT45SG

jikes must have read it wrong Mac mini it was not the complete Apple kit

[stereoptic]

jikes must have read it wrong Mac mini it was not the complete Apple kit

Not quite 100% Apple (yet?) Although if I start a tally sheet, my wife has a Mac PC, iPad,and iPod, and I have an Ipod and mac mini. I use a Dell laptop primarily and there are 2 other desktop Windows 7 in the house. Looks like Apple has the edge!

I have a few days (and nights) off at the end of the week. I'll be able to experiment with the router and settings when all is quiet and I won't interrupt any one's computer work!

[stereoptic]

When using static ip don't forget to assign a DNS server manually, this could be the routers ip if it does dns or your ISP's dns server

Edit: and of course subnetmask when you dhcp there is more than thannthenip that's get set.

I switched from "Manually - DHCP" to "Manually", added the DNS server and router address and now I have internet back.

[stereoptic]

I switched from "Manually - DHCP" to "Manually", added the DNS server and router address and now I have internet back.

To bring this back to the thread topic ( ) , after I set it to manual, I rebooted the mac mini running LMS and went to bed for the night. The next morning my wife went to use the SBT and there was the error that it couldn't connect. I checked the mac mini and it was waiting for my network sign on password for some reason. It never did that before when the setting was for Automatic DHCP. I would reboot and it would reconnect without a prompt. After I put in the password and reconnected, I had the SBT connct to to ethernet and then it found the LMS server (I had to try twice for some reason). Now the server IP address under
Settings>Advanced>Squeezebox info>LM>Server I.P Address 192.168.1.156
Settings>Advanced>Diagnostics>Server Info 192.168.1.156 is correct!