Re: Message "Impossible to get an IP address assigned by the server" (approx. translation from French)

I've posted about this before. It has to do with how the Remote-NDIS Host
"network adapter" is configured. However you do it on your device, open the
Network Adapters configuration page. There should be quite a number of
things there, PPP NDISWAN Miniport, Remote-NDIS Host, etc. You want to
reconfigure the Remote-NDIS Host item, so tap it. This should bring up an
IP address configuration screen which has two radio buttons, Use
server-assigned IP address and Use specific IP address. You want the "Use
specific IP address" item, so select that. Now you need to enter the right
address, as listed below:

IP address: 169.254.2.1
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: <blank>

Accept the changes. You'll probably get a message about the settings being
used the next time the adapter is connected. Now, connect to the PC with
the USB cable, as before, and I don't think that you'll have a problem.

Note that you can use GoogleGroups to search the old messages in this or any
other group!

Paul T.

"Ulysse from CH" <> wrote in message
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> Hello group,
> I get often on my PDA Acer n300 (on which Windows Mobile
> is installed in French) an error message after using ActiveSync. It is
> possible that it has appeared also sometimes when the PDA was
> connected to my PC without ActiveSync having being used or
> some time after using it. Apparently the message acts (in my case)
> only as a warning, because the sync. is in fact done; so I think that
> may-be ActiveSync is trying to do something that I don't need but
> is not possible because some prerequisite is not satisfied (I guess
> that this has to do with the Internet, e.g. it may be related to
> e-mail or bookmarks). This problem did not occur with the PDA (nearly
> of the same model) I had before; the one I have now is 2nd hand,
> the problem must come from activities of the former user.
> I found via a search in Google Groups that someone has
> asked a question about exactly the same message, but the answers
> given (about half a dozen) seem to be useless for me (they don't
> seem to have been useful for the person asking either, I'd say)
> To be able to ask my question *and* to make a search with
> a better chance to get an useful answer, I should know the exact
> wording of the English equivalent of the message.
> Here is the French message I get:
> "Impossible d'obtenir une adresse IP affectée par le serveur.
> Réessayez ultérieurement ou entrez une adresse dans les paramètres
> Rréseau".
> Here a trial translation so that readers not knowing well
> French but having seen the English equivalent might recognize it:
> "Impossible to get an IP address assigned by the server.
> Try later or enter an address into the net parameters."
> If someone knows *exactly* what this means (i.e. when
> it occurs) and tells me, so much the better. Otherwise my question
> is: what is the exact English wording ?

"what represents the IP address above"? The device is configured to get a
server-assigned IP address, but has no one to get it from, unless the PC
you've connected to it is running a DHCP server, which is very unlikely.
The connection still works because the device isn't really communicating
over a network and ActiveSync on the device knows to act like 169.254.2.1,
even though you've set the network connection for server-assigned IP. That
IP is the IP of the device on this little two-host network, the device and
the PC connected to it.

Paul T.

"Ulysse from CH" <> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:48:16 -0700, "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space
> tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT com> wrote:
>
>>I've posted about this before. It has to do with how the Remote-NDIS Host
>>"network adapter" is configured. However you do it on your device, open
>>the
>>Network Adapters configuration page. There should be quite a number of
>>things there, PPP NDISWAN Miniport, Remote-NDIS Host, etc. You want to
>>reconfigure the Remote-NDIS Host item, so tap it. This should bring up an
>>IP address configuration screen which has two radio buttons, Use
>>server-assigned IP address and Use specific IP address. You want the "Use
>>specific IP address" item, so select that. Now you need to enter the
>>right
>>address, as listed below:
>>IP address: 169.254.2.1
>>Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
>>Default gateway: <blank>
>>Accept the changes. You'll probably get a message about the settings
>>being
>>used the next time the adapter is connected. Now, connect to the PC with
>>the USB cable, as before, and I don't think that you'll have a problem
>>(...)
>>
> Thank you. I have done this, and after a PDA reset to unblock
> ActiveSync (often necessary after a 'critical change') the disturbing
> message seems to have disappeared for good !
>
> BTW I don't intend for the moment to access the Internet from my PDA
> (neither with nor without the help of a connection to the PC).
> But I wonder what represents the IP address above ...
>>
>>Paul T.
>>"Ulysse from CH" <> wrote in message
>>news:. ..
>>> Hello group,
>>> I get often on my PDA Acer n300 (on which Windows Mobile
>>> is installed in French) an error message after using ActiveSync. (...)
>>> Here is the French message I get: (...)
>>> Here a trial translation so that readers not knowing well
>>> French but having seen the English equivalent might recognize it:
>>> "Impossible to get an IP address assigned by the server.
>>> Try later or enter an address into the net parameters." (...)
>>