do you see traffic on the icon in the tray?

wouldnt hurt to do a repair on the connectoids in network
(right click -> repair)
it will flush the dsn cache and reinit the connection assuming it can be.






"cameronjpu" <cameronjones******.com> wrote in message
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>I am an independent admin helping out a client of mine. They have a
> network with only two computers, the router is outside the office (in
> the basement). We have a switch inside the office. IP addresses are
> manually assigned. Both computers have no firewall but the windows xp
> firewall.
>
> They share a folder that is hosted on one of the computers, and
> everything has worked fine for a long time. Suddenly late last week,
> the remote system could no longer access the host system's shared
> files. Can't get to the workgroup even. The weirdest thing is that
> neither computer can even ping the other, but the internet never
> stopped working perfectly.
>
> The two computers' ipconfig/all outputs are below:
>
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Susan Stolov>ipconfig/all
>
> ***************************************REMOTE
> COMPUTER************************
> Windows IP Configuration
>
> Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Station01
> Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
> Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
> IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
>
> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
>
> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
> Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE
> Network Connecti
> on
> Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-16-76-8A-37-EB
> Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 66.7.37.59
> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.248
> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 66.7.37.57
> DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 66.7.25.98
> 64.52.192.98
>
> ***************************************SERVER
> COMPUTER************************
>
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Susan Stolov>ipconfig/all
>
> Windows IP Configuration
>
> Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : WIPMaster
> Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
> Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
> IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
>
> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
>
> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
> Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE
> Network Connecti
> on
> Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-16-76-8A-37-EB
> Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 66.7.37.60
> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.248
> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 66.7.37.57
> DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 66.7.25.98
> 64.52.192.98
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Susan Stolov>
>
> Computers have been rebooted. Switch reset. Tried DHCP but IP
> addresses could not be obtained. I'll see if I can access the network
> room, it's a building-provided service so that could be tricky.
>
> Any clue about where to start looking?
>
> Thanks.