Recent content by rstill

GOT IT! - I am very sorry to say that I have a confession to make. But first - all browsing works perfectly now. Remember I said the only difference between my perfect home network and the one at my friends office was the XP clients. Well! He also had PC-Cillin installed. I had no idea this...

ICF has always been off. I have not yet heard the suggestion to ENABLE the client's local guest account. I will try that. Thanks

Here is what I know after today. I took a W2K notebook from my "perfect" home domain. Joined it to my friends (accounting office) domain. It worked perfecly right away. Pinging, browsing all perfect. Instant conclusion XP really sucks. XP has been the problem right from the...

I did however get rid of the other nic in the server. Then the problems really got bad. I ended up having to reinstall AD, DNS & DHCP. I really had a runaway. All the problems still exist. DNS has a new one. When I create a host record in the forward lookup zone and select Automatically...

hewissa, What is that and how do you remove it???

Crap!!!!! And by the way... there has been no port tampering of any kind and I can't beleive that the default settigs for ports on a very basic system would prevent browsing (I could be wrong) I did read up on browsing (that took me back many years when I did my MCSE - eons ago) I think the DNS...

Just so you all know - Netbios over TCP/IP is enabled and always has been. (on all machines) The Computer browser service is "Sarted" on all computers and always has been. I will try restarting the Netlogon service tonight and then do an IPCONFIG /refreshdns and see if all my...

xmsre - That sounds intriguing. I can't wait to give that a try. I will be able to get there this evening some time. I will look into those links you pointed me to as well.

nedmega - nslookup has several switches, one of them being ls - it works similar to UNIX's ls. It lists info from the DNS database. ls -d will produce almost everying in there by the looks of it. Cheers

Yes, I think the DNS issues are resolved. The bigger and greater problem is somthing else. All the PC's run off a 4 port netgear router and a 16 port linksys switch. It does not matter if I try to connect to a PC via the switch or router the results are the same. jaksen112 - I don't recall...

I hope some of you/all of you are still into following this thread. I removed the check mark by Simple File Sharing on all the XP Pro machines (all the clients). Nothing changed. I did run netdiag /fix to see what it produced. It did some diags on the internal NIC that is not plugged it to...

Yes they are all on the same subnet (in the same location). The default "simple file shareing is checked". I will disable that tonight and give it a try. It could very well be the Guest account that is messing me up. Although it did appear as though I had some DNS issues. I will...

One more thing everyone! I just called the accounting office. Since I installed a reverse lookup zone the nslookup produces the desired results. THINGS have changed for ping as well. Now instead of getting request timed out looking for "ComputerName IP Addrsss" messages he is...

I will try clearing the ARP Cache and see what I get. As for the ipconfig /all - I typed it wrong for you, the Primary DNS IS my server 192.168.0.10 the secondary is 192.168.0.1 (which is not required). The server and clients produce the same ipconfig /all output with the exception of the...

Remember - I can ping everything by Name and Address Except machines on the local domain. I am not running any subnets - I did recenty add a reverse lookup zone and nslookup now spits out data (nslookup -d DOMAIN) It lists all the pc's and their address. I was hope-full for a moment but I...