Just to add to this, the firewall is disabled by Group Policy
"Chris" <acris9@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> I'm having a strange issue with Vista (SP1 and now SP2) at the moment and
> wondered if anyone has any ideas. Until today, one of our wired machines
> in the domain kept dropping the connection to the local LAN but the
> Internet was still ok, this might not be related at all. Since then I
> removed the machine from the domain to then re-add the machine, this is
> now not working, I keep getting Network cannot be reached. If I look at
> the network map, I can see Windows Vista machines and Windows 2008 Servers
> so that looks fine. I've tried removing the machine details from DNS and
> done a flush and register and it populated the DNS Server ok. I can send
> files from any other machine (on the domain) to the Vista machine using
> local credentials to authenticate but if I try and do the oppersite and
> send files from the machine I'm prompted for a username and password and
> no passwords I enter, local or domian appear to work. Since then, I tried
> with another machine to remove it and re-add and it was fine, very
> strange!
>
> Anyone got any suggestions? I've just tried the winsock fix from Microsoft
> to see if that helps and I'm going to try that tomorrow
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Chris
>
>