02-18-2024, 07:18 AM
Hey, folks. Call me Joe Btfsplk if you want. I feel jinxed. Whenever I march on to something I haven't used before I seem to run into stuff that makes no sense at all. I cannot get Companion to connect to my MobileSheets Chromebook across the room and the advice I read hasn't helped so far.
My network isn't wildly exotic. The whole house is served by a Ubiquiti router with one local subnet, 192.168.2.*. The wireless part connects to a Netgear mesh router that is configured as an access point so that all DHCP requests are handled by the Ubiquiti router. My PC has been served address 192.168.2.76 and the Chromebook has 192.168.2.204.
Yet the sticking point appears to me to be that the Chromebook on selecting "Connect to Companion" shows address 100.115.92.14 with nothing like guidance anywhere that that is something that can be configured. My Certified Netware Engineer certificate from 1992 means nothing anymore, but it's a badge to prove I once did some deep diving in networks and I can't recall any precedent that could explain how and why something like that should pop up when everything else around here is happily communicating on our single subnet.
Once again, I'm at your mercy. Help!
My network isn't wildly exotic. The whole house is served by a Ubiquiti router with one local subnet, 192.168.2.*. The wireless part connects to a Netgear mesh router that is configured as an access point so that all DHCP requests are handled by the Ubiquiti router. My PC has been served address 192.168.2.76 and the Chromebook has 192.168.2.204.
Yet the sticking point appears to me to be that the Chromebook on selecting "Connect to Companion" shows address 100.115.92.14 with nothing like guidance anywhere that that is something that can be configured. My Certified Netware Engineer certificate from 1992 means nothing anymore, but it's a badge to prove I once did some deep diving in networks and I can't recall any precedent that could explain how and why something like that should pop up when everything else around here is happily communicating on our single subnet.
Once again, I'm at your mercy. Help!