I have a small (6 machine)peer-to-peer
network at my office, and have added a 7th computer. All run windows
xp, all are dell dimension machines. The newest computer can access
the network fine, but I get a warning message beside the icon on the
lower menu bar:  "LIMITED OR NO (NETWORK)
CONNECTIVITY...this problem occurred because the network did not
assign a network address to the computer". I use one machine as the
"server", and it runs XP pro. (I also have one network printer on the
network, and the installation technician manually applied a network
address to it) All the others run XP home/small
business.  This a new message, none of the other computers display
this message. What is going on ? Is there a fix (such as manually
assigning an address )

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 16 Jan 2006 11:01 PST

australia2005...

What Service Pack is on the new PC? Some expansion on
the nature of your network, as suggested in the comment
by eddi2k-ga would be helpful. 

Also, see if the hotfix in this MS Knowledge Base article
helps your situation:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884020

Let me know...

sublime1-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 16 Jan 2006 11:06 PST

Also take a look at this post on the MSFN forum:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=56396

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 16 Jan 2006 11:12 PST

Here's more on the MS hotfix and the issue in general,
from PChell.com:
http://www.pchell.com/support/limitedconnectivity.shtml

Hm... I dont understand that. You have a peer2peer network with a server?

A P2P Architecture:

Internet <-> 1. Workstation <--> 2. Workstation <--> 3...

A Client-Server Network:

Internet <-> Server <-> Switch or Hub <-> All Other Computers

Wich Services (dns,ftp,http) use u at the Server?

Have you static Ips or do you have a DHCP Server?

Sry for my bad english...

As eddi2k asked it would really help to know if you have a DHCP server
or if your workstations are set up with static IPs.  If you don't
know, the easiest way to find out is go onto the "server" machine, go
to run from the start menu and type "cmd" and press OK.  A MS-DOS
prompt will pop up, now type "ipconfig /all" and press ENTER. 
Somewhere in the output (you may need to scroll up to see it) there
will be a line that says "DHCP Enabled" with a "Yes" or "No" next to
it.  If it says "Yes" this is most likely your problem but it should
be happening to other computers as well. I can help more once I know
how your network is set up.  If it DHCP is enabled you will want to
write down some of that other info, specifically the Subnet Mask, the
Default Gateway, and the DNS Servers.