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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> 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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