Win95 and Server 2000

From: Jack Furr (Jackf)
Date: 01/05/05


Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:07:17 -0800

I have a client that has Windows 2000 server running and a couple of Windows
2000 and Windows 95 machines. All Windows 2000 machines can browse the
internet, but only ONE of the the 10 Windows 95 machines can browse the
internet. All machines can PING www.nbc.com.

The on-site network engineer said that the Windows 95 machine will need to
be sysprep'ed but sysprep.exe does not work on Windows 95. Also, all of the
Windows 95 machines have unique computer names. I have never had this issue
in the 147 networks that I maintain.

Why would a Windows 95 machine be able to ping but not browse the internet.
Also, why can ONE of the Windows 95 machines be able to browse the internet
while the others can't? .... CRAZY! ;-)

Any clues?

Note: The Windows 95 machines are all ghosted/imaged from Norton Ghos, BUT,
each has a unique Computer Name assigned to it. Also, all Windows 95
machines are given a valid IP address via DHCP upon startup.

Jack Furr