You know, someone around my house tried to do that, they even turned off DHCP and DNS, but I just made my own IP, and used Verizon's DNS servers because they were easy to remember.
i wonder is it illegal to access people's machines that appear on your network? ie if a freeloader gets past even your security can you say start deleting their files.(i found that sometimes Linux samba ignores windows and will bypass access restrictions of network drives from win). -- [65 Arcanist]Filan(High Elf) Zone: Broadband Reports