Changing addresses

[Jim I. W. <jim...@gm...>]

I have TightVNC installed on a network with three computers, a HP
T5710 thin client, and two desktop PCs.  The Thin Client is running
XPe and is a telephone server.  The two PCs are running Linux.  What I
like about TightVNC is that it works across the two platforms on the
network.  The three computers are connected through a wired router.

Where I have problems is that the router address occasionally changes.
 Last week it was 192.168.1.104 and yesterday I could not access it
(the password screen didn't appear when I clicked on the icon for the
script) so I checked the address with "nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24" and it
was now 192.168.1.101.  Changing the script to the changed address
solved my problem.

But,  I would really like to lock the address so it didn't change.  Is
this possible??  I am guessing that the change occurred when I
disconnected the Thin Client for a test and then plugged it back in.
I don't really know the time line as I wasn't watching it since I
didn't expect to have things change.

-- 
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."