Noob error. I uninstalled Client for Microsoft Networks whilst
troubleshooting but forgot to re-install it. Working fine now!
"Chris" wrote:
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> Just to add to this, the firewall is disabled by Group Policy
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> "Chris" <acris9@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eaYp3%23A$JHA.5068@xxxxxx Quote:
> > Hello all,
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> > 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
> >
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