Re: laptops connect at work but not at home?

In news:56BFC801-BC06-4A19-86FD-7CE9BB62102B@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
mikeindo <mikeindo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made this post, which I then
commented about below:
> i'll try to disable the DNS-related settings in the GPO and see what
> happens. Even though the DNS Servers setting's explanation says, "If
> this setting is not configured, it is not applied to any computers,
> and computers use their local or DHCP-configured parameters."?

I've seen this in the past. It doesn't apply to XP and GPOs, but I just
thought to bring that across. I;ve seen it during a migration where a an XP
machine joined to the NT4 domain exhibited this behavior after the NT4
upgrade. What I had to do is set the NT4 style System Polices back to
disabled. Once I confirmed that, I then removed the System Policy and
proceeded to use GPOs.


> We were running W2K Server and ran into problems using GPMC from my
> XP box so I abandoned its use. But now that server runs W2K3, so
> should be ok now I think. So I'll try to run an RSOP and/or modeling
> report.

Ok, sounds good.


>> What I've did to correct this is to put the XP machines into a
>> sub-OU under the OU with the GPO to get it to work.
>
> I suppose I could try this too.
>
> You're right, they cannot ping from home, behind a Linksys router or
> directly connected to cable modem. But they don't VPN in, so we
> can't test that. There is no proxy or ISA in place.
>
> To add to the mystery, one of the laptops that I've been messing with
> concerning this issue has all of a sudden started working at home!
> Over the weekend, the owner told me this - this was two days after I
> would have changed anything. Is there a chance it was simply like a
> delayed applying of settings? The owner said she'd only rebooted,
> but we'd been doing that along the way already. Not to say this
> issue is totally resolved - there is at least one laptop out there
> that cannot connect to the Internet when outside this office, last I
> heard...

Can I assume the users at home performed an ipconfig /release and then
followed by a /renew? Did you have them confirm their ipconfig settings when
you were helping them tech support this?

Ace




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