Re: Cannot connect to the Internet

In article <1152645835.985999.189130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Paul Power <paulkpower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Julian wrote:
In article <1152293084.869675.201770@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Paul Power <paulkpower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Julian wrote:
In article <1152209510.016113.143570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Paul Power <paulkpower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

julian.woods@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
How can this be?

My Windows 2000 pro PC is connected to the internet (Local Area
Connection 2 Status icon shows "Connected" with a speed of 10.0
Mbps,
whether I use Shared Networking or Virtual Switch). However, my
Internet Explorer always gives me the "The Page Cannot be
Displayed". I
cannot PING anything, and when I check my Event logs this is the
sort
of response I get:

Error: The master browser has received a server announcement from
the
computer POWERBOOK80 that believes that it is the master browser for
the domain on transport NetBR_T cpip_{2DCC974B-B3DC-43. The master
browser is stopping or an election is being forced. Source: MRxSmb

Error: The server (6295DF2D-35EE-11D1-8707-00C04FD93327) did not
register with DCOM within the required timeout. Source: DCOM

Warning: The DNS Client service could not contact any DNS servers
for a
repeated number of attempts. For the next 30 seconds the DNS Client
service will not use the network to avoid further network
performance
problems. It will resume its normal behavior after that. If this
problem persists, verify your TCP/IP configuration, specifically
check
that you have a preferred (and possibly alternate) DNS server
configured. If the problem continues, verify network conditions to
these DNS servers or contact your network administrator. Source:
Dnscache

Error: The IP address lease 192.168.131.175 for the Network Card
with
network address 0003FFE28ABA has been denied by the DHCP server
192.168.131.254 (The DHCP Server sent a DHCPNACK message). Source:
DHCP.

Information: The browser has forced an election on network
\Device\NetBT_T cpip_(2DCC974B-B3DC-43B5-86FE-52FFB4E75B6A) because
a
master browser was stopped. Source BROWSER

There is obviously some conflict between my Mac (POWERBOOK80) and
my PC
IE browser that prevents the IE browser from finding the DNS
server. I
have DNS and server addresses set to "automatic".

Connection Preference: Never dial
EnableHttp1.1: 1
ProxyHttp1.1: 0

LAN settings

AutoConfigProxy: wininet.dll
AutProxyDetectMode: Enabled
Proxy: Disabled

An ipconfig/all command in Shared Networking gives me:

Windows 2000 IP Configuration

Host Name MACWINDOWS
Primary DNS Suffix:
Node Type: Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled: No
WINS Proxy Enabled: No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2

Connection-specific DNS Suffix Description: Intel 21041 Based PCI
Ethernet Adapter #2
Physical Address: 00-03-FF-E2-8A-BA
DHCP Enabled: Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled: Yes
IP Address: 192.168.131.68
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.131.254
DHCP Server: 192.168.131.254
DNS Servers: 192.168.131.254

I have read all the Microsoft kb's on the subject and tried all they
suggest, but to no avail. My patience is wearing thin so if there is
anyone out there who could help set me straight on this I would be
eternally grateful.

I should add that I am running VPC 7.0.2 on the latest OS 10.4.7 on
a
PowerBook through a
D-Link router on a broadband ethernet connection.



Add a DNS server in Windows.

4.2.2.2 is a public DNS server owned by Yahoo.com and works quite well
in VPC.

The steps to do this are in the link below:

http://www.stanford.edu/services/ess/pc/docs/ethernet/wxp/dns.html


Thanks Paul, I did what you suggest but the IE still cannot find a web
page.

However, I kept adding 4.2.2.2 as my DNS and WINS server, although I
note that the Stanford case uses different addresses at the end (i.e.
when adding WINS servers etc.)

The above logs suggest that my problem is some sort of conflict between
my Mac and the PC IE, both of which claim to be the "Master Browser".

Any further ideas?

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Can you ping 4.2.2.2 from Windows? If so, can you ping www.yahoo.com?

Cannot ping either of them. See below:

C:\>ping 4.2.2.2

Pinging 4.2.2.2 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out
Request timed out
Request timed out
Request timed out

Ping statistics for 4.2.2.2:
Packets: Sent = 4. Received = 0, Lost =4 (100% loss)
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\>ping www.yahoo.com
Unknown host www.yahoo.com

As I said, my Local Area 2 Status icon in the Task Bar tells my
"Connected". The problem is that IE cannot find this "Connection" due
to some sort of name conflict or other such where two items compete to
be the "Master Browser".

I looked at my "Event Log" for today (after booting up IE) and it reads:

Error: The master browser has received a server announcement from the
computer POWERBOOK80 that believes that it is the master browser for
the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_(3F146D01-29A9. The master browser
is stopping or an election is being forced. (Source: MRxSmb)

This is followed by a "Warning" that:

The DNS Client service could not contact any DNS servers for a repeated
number of attempts. For the next 30 seconds the DNS Client service will
not use the network to avoid further network performance problems. It
will resume its normal behavior after that. If this problem persists,
verify your TCP/IP configuration, specifically check that you have a
preferred (and possibly alternate) DNS server configured. If the
problem continues, verify network conditions to these DNS servers or
contact your network administrator. Source: Dnscache

YESTERDAY (i.e. before I switched to the yahoo proxy), my Event log
gave me the following after trying my IE:

Error: A duplicate name has been detected on the TCP network. The IP
address of the machine that sent the message is in the data. Use
nbtstat -n in a command window to see which name is in the conflict
state. Source: NetBT

Warning: The browser has received a server announcement indicting that
the computer MACWINDOWS is a master browser, but this computer is not a
master browser. Source: MRxSub

MACWINDOWS is the name of my Windows2000 VM

When I ran nbtstat -n I got the following:

C:\>nbtstat -n

Local Area Connection 2:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.131.69] Scope Id: [ ]

NetBIOS Local Name Table

Name Type
Status

MACWINDOWS <00> UNIQUE Registered
MACWINDOWS <20> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered
MACWINDOWS <03> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <1E> GROUP Registered
ADMINISTRATOR <03> UNIQUE Registered
?MSBROWSE? <01> GROUP Resistered

C:\>

I do not know how to interpret this. Maybe you can advise.

Thanks Paul

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Do not worry about the browser election at this point. It is NOT
hindering your ability to ping anything. Something on the Mac side is
blocking it (something like Little Snitch?). Anyway, restart your Mac
OS in Safe Boot and then try pinging from Windows.

Thanks Paul. Since posting the above I tried restarting my Mac with
Shift key down and I had no trouble connecting to the Internet. Only
trouble was I had no sound. Anyway, I then decided to create a new user
on my machine and installed VPC 7.0.2 with Windows 2000 Pro on that.
Wow! No trouble at all. Connected immediately to the Internet.

I can only conclude that I have some extension or other in my main
(admin) user account which is interfering with the PC. However, there
being no Extensions Manager in OS X I have no way of knowing which. I
have decided now to simply use Windows from my second user account in
future.

However, I do have a question about this new setup. I had an old
Connectix version of Windows 2000 pro on an external drive, and when I
created a new virtual machine on my PowerBook (new user account) I did
it by way of upgrading from that Windows file on this external drive.
Now I have my Virtual PC List in my new account's documents folder with
an alias pointing to the external drive. I would like to copy this over
to my Mac HD (i.e. to replace the one that was giving me the trouble),
but am not sure whether this is possible. In other words, I would like
to be able to use my second (new) user account, but access my Windows
on my internal HD. I find accessing it from an external drive slows
things down a lot.

I notice you cannot just create an alias of Windows (being read only).

Any ideas on that?

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