Can anyone help Bud with IT/Computer problem...Go on,

Bud Wiser · February 15, 2009, 11:35:27 AM

If there is a simple answer to this I would appreciate help as I am at it since half six this morning. I am trying to connect my laptop to a CCTV Recorder directly by Ethernet cable. I can log onto it over the internet but not directly. When I go to cmd prompt and type in ipcongig I get the screen below. I tried IPconfig/renew and nothing happens.

I tried to ping the IP address of the recorder but I am not asking for help there, just can anyone say from the pic that there is something wrong with my settings so that I can take the laptop somewhere and get someone to stick a starting handle in her and see will she fire up that way. If it is just something simple and it saves me a trip to some whizz kid I would appreciate it.

ardmhachaabu · February 15, 2009, 12:22:07 PM

If I have read you right... it looks as if your ethernet card isn't getting a proper IP address.

Anything that starts 169.x.x.x is a range exclusively reserved for indicating that there is a problem with network settings somewhere along the line.

Read the documentation on the CCTV recorder, somewhere in there it should tell you what IP address is configured to it. When you know that, then you should just be able to manually speciify another IP in the same range to your ethernet card and connect to it like that...

Gnevin · February 15, 2009, 12:46:17 PM

So say you can get to the camera via the internet and the internet from your pc . This would imply to me your PC and Camera are on different subnet. The 169 address is worrying too.

Try manually assign your ethernet an IP. Also is there a hub of some sort between the camera and your PC?

David McKeown · February 15, 2009, 01:23:12 PM

Are you plugging your ethernet cable directly into both the cctv and the laptop? If so that wont work as theres nowhere for laptop to get a an ip address and you need a crossover cable to make that work. Like an ethernet cable only the wires inside are crossed over. Comparing the two heads should let you know if you have a cross over cable.

My advice at this point would be. Plug the cctv into your wireless router with that cable and then download angry ipscan which will test an entire range of ips for you quickly and let you get ip address of the cctv. You should then be able to work it whatever way you want either through the wireless router or by manually setting the ip address and using a crossover cable.

Bud Wiser · February 15, 2009, 08:54:04 PM

Cross over cable was one issue but anyway I have a guy calling tomorrow - too old for this craic anyway.
Thanks to you all.

Gnevin · February 15, 2009, 11:43:13 PM

Let us know how you get on .

armaghniac · February 16, 2009, 12:27:28 AM

QuotePlug the cctv into your wireless router with that cable and then download angry ipscan which will test an entire range of ips for you quickly and let you get ip address of the cctv. You should then be able to work it whatever way you want either through the wireless router or by manually setting the ip address and using a crossover cable.

This seems the way forward.