Re: The page cannot be displayed

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aa
Date: 02/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:52:01 -0000

My conclusion is one of us is drinking!

It must be the MS Windows who is drinking - from my 5 years experience with
MS I am ander a srong impression that it is always not sober.

One thing you should know:
My new network problems (before I had a problem of makeing the wetwork
printer work and periodocal "unexpected network error") started after my
Admin installed on one computer Lucent VPN client to enable me to access the
offcie network from home over the Internet. Lucent has been onstalled on the
second PC simetime ago, but it did not work, so he reinstalled it. Now I can
access my office network from both PCs, but cannot access each others.

I noticed that after VPN was installed, a second NIC shoes up in the list of
network adapters in tha Hardware Manager.
The second one names same as the first one with "Lucent VPN miniport"
appended to the name. (No physical adapter were added)
Both adapters are enabled. Is there a chanse that there is a confusion
between these two adapters?

BTW, the original problem - "The page cannot be displayed" sorted itself out
after I disabled and then re-enabled one of these network adapters. But I
still cannot open files on one PC from the other. I am getting "unexpected
network error" or "specified network name is nolonder available or "The
local device name is already in use"

"Roland Hall" <nobody@nowhere> wrote in message
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> <aa> wrote:
> : I see. If you mean the TCP/IP properties, I mentioned, that I have the
> same
> : settings on both computers and on both the DNS address fields are left
> : empty.
> :
> : The other details of TCP/IP settings are
> : IP and DNS server addresses - obtain automatically
> : DHCP enabled
> : NETBIOS over TCP/IP enabled
> : lmhosts look up enabled (the adresses in lmhosts are taken from
> what
> : ipconfig returns in relevant computers)
> : DNS server address ? WINS address - empty
> : Apend parent suffix of the primary DNS suffix
> :
> : What conclusions can you draw from this?
>
> My conclusion is one of us is drinking! You cannot have dynamic settings
> and obtain two different results on two computers on the same subnet,
unless
> you have more than one DHCP server, which you should not have. The only
> other possibility I can think of is IPSec on one that is blocking TCP 53,
> perhaps some other things but I've never run across anything like this
with
> them, i.e. personal firewall, proxy, ...
>
> One workstation points to the router. One points to the bt.net DNS
servers.
> You do however have NET Port one-one Redirection. Perhaps port 53 is open
> for one workstation and not the other. I'm reaching here but if the
systems
> really are setup as you say, then I'd look at the router.
>
> Here they say the DNS passes automatically but you have dynamic DNS
disabled
> on your router. It is also hard to believe the GOOD computer gets
bt.net's
> DNS info configured automatically. It just doesn't make sense.
>
> I'm not familiar with this router but from the docs, it should not be
> passing DNS. If it is, and the GOOD computer does actually get it from
> there, then something is blocking it, either something related to NAT on
the
> router or IPSec or personal firewall on the computer. A driver issue is
> always suspect but I always confirm settings before replacing software.
>
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