Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Nov 30 06:16:58 CST 2008
I will concur with Gary as Vista has become more difficult to connect across the LAN. After a number of the latest updates XP/server2003/2008 are starting to behave in the same way. It took a day to get my Linux boxes to talk again, my wireless laptop refuses to connect directly, only through remote-desktop and the new Server2008 has started refusing remote-admin connections and is only allowing connections through its shares and then only via the VPN. (Everything was working when I left, the systems did one update between and when I arrived back; it is now there are problems.) I think it is the latest MS 'security' updates that have been causing the issues. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:36 AM To: Off Topic Cc: List Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] (no subject) I recommend you click Start and then "Help and Support" (Bottom or firth column) and type in something like "Network Connection Not Working" in the search box and hit enter. I've had great luck with Vista's help contrary to earlier Microsoft help experiences. I get "Troubleshoot Network Connection Problems" as the first thing. You have to be careful to not SET UP a network though as that seems to foul up everything. I'm guessing the network adapter is inactive or something like that. Sounds like you may have been into the "Set up the network" which since you already had a network wasn't the thing to do and may have gummed up the works. You are right it SHOULD be easier but I think it's part of the more secure" nature of Vista getting in the way. Welcome to Vista! GK On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > Dear Lists: > > I got a Vista machine from my father-in-law (compulsive hardware buyer - he > has about 12 machines and an equal number of printers - gave me a color > laser as well - he had 2 - wasn't using either. He's 85. But I digress..). > I used the restore disk so it's a clean machine - just like out of the box. > > The Vista machine can't see the network or the internet. I got it on the > internet briefly by shutting down the modem and router and the Vista machine > (per advice in diagnose and repair), but that hosed the network connections > for the other machines. So I shut everybody down, cycled the modem and > router. Now everybody is back except the Vista machine. > > I see that there's two type of networks - public and private. This one is > set to public. Don't know what that's all about. > > Diagnose and repair also has options to automatically get new IP setting, > and reset the network adapter. Neither worked. But the one time I was able > to find the dialog box with the IP address I see that it's not a > 192.168.1.xxx like the rest of the machines on the network. But I cannot to > save me find that dialog box again. > > But I'm guessing that's the problem - not picking up a good network address > from the router. > > In the Local Area Connection Status it shows many packets send - zero > received. > > Now you'd think that Vista would be able to do this by itself. But > apparently not. > > BTW - I turned off the Windows Firewall just to eliminate that variable. > And no other AV or firewall software is running. > > What am I overlooking? Is there something simple that gets this Vista box > on my LAN and out to the internet? > > > > MTIA, > > > > > > Rocky Smolin > > Beach Access Software > > 858-259-4334 > > www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/> > > www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-OT mailing list > dba-OT at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-ot > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com