Re: Help! Can't ping W2000 workstation

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Hi

I meant workstation in the following sentence not server - apologies for any
confusion!:

"can you connect to the server in anyother way like MMC,Telnet ,direct path
to
>a share like \\servername\c$ and \\ipofserver\c$"

Anywhere it say server, read workstation

Regards

S

>Hi
>
>FWIW I would check
>
>workstation and server services running? - not sure if that would cause this
>exact issue but check anyways
>
>that the machine is getting correct IP info - ipconfig, is it dhcp and if so
>what if you manually assign ip and dns info( must be internal DNS server not
>ISP)
>
>was there "ever" a firewall on this machine?
>
>can you connect to the server in anyother way like MMC,Telnet ,direct path to
>a share like \\servername\c$ and \\ipofserver\c$
>
>You're right though it does sound like a firewall - what caused the issue or
>did it just happen?
>
>HTH
>
>SImon
>>Should'nt need to enable 'File and Print Sharing' for this - ensure the
>>sharing privilages are correct for this station
>[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>>> > recreated the network connection, removed & added it to the domain. It's
>>> > acting like a firewall is up but there is no firewall.
>

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Simon Whyley
MCP XP,2Kpro
Comptia A+ (lol)


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