Re: laptops connect at work but not at home?

> Is there a personal firewall (Zone Alarm) or anything else similar to that
> installed?

no firewall. even turned off XP firewall.

> Are the DNS addresses on the clients hardcoded to your internal DNS but the
> IP is set to 'obtain automatically'?

If I understand your question right, that's what appears to have caused this
whole mess. Yes, they're set to obtain automatically (both at work and at
home), but the office network's internal DNS servers are there in the
Registry when they're at home (I had them look it up). Clearing them out
seems to work sporadically. I mean, it worked for the first laptop on which
we first discovered this problem. But the second laptop didn't behave the
same way (it's the one I described above that unexpectedly just started
working last weekend). Now a third laptop has exhibited the same issue.
I've told him to ipconfig /release, /renew, and /flushdns, also he cleared
out the DNS servers from HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsNT\DNSclient
and rebooted, and he even gets an IP address from the wireless hotspot he's
trying to connect to, but still cannot pull up web pages. He also cant seem
to ping Internet IP addresses even though his laptop gets that IP address -
weird.

Or maybe I dont understand your question: 'hardcoded to the internal DNS'?
.

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