Re: laptops connect at work but not at home?

In news:373A73B2-A938-4BB4-B12F-BC7C7AB62B9C@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
mikeindo <mikeindo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made this post, which I then
commented about below:
>> 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'?

In IP properties, you can select to either obtain automatically or set it
statically. You can even set the DNS addresses statically, but obtain an IP
address automatically. Check out the IP properties and you'll see what I
mean.

I assume no spyware or viruses such as the QHOSTS that compromises the Hosts
file.

Honestly I've never seen these sort of problems with connectivity. I work
with one of my clients of about 150+ users and half of them have laptops and
travel around and they have no problems whatsoever whether they are in a
hotel, airport, a Starbucks or at home on their wireless.

It uis obviously something common since it is happening to all your laptops.
If you brought a new laptop in that never had the GPO settings, does it work
anywhere it goes?

Ace




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