"James W. Long" <JamesLong@wowway.com> wrote in message
news:8tednUHlItYJX27anZ2dnUVZ_qKgnZ2d@wideopenwest .com...
> do you see traffic on the icon in the tray?
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gw is pingable, router is up. 60 is up. 59 no answer.


in this order:

are you SURE the 59 Machine is actually connected to the switch??
move the cable to a different port on the switch. they DO go bad.

check the cable- any heavy marks kinks etc which make it suspect?

got a spare known good cable ?

wouldnt hurt to do a repair on the connectoid in network (59) machine
(right click -> repair)
it will flush the dsn cache and reinit the connection assuming it can be.


might be a setting in the router has erroneously excluded the 59 machine
from access.
check this.


and if that doesnt work
delete the connectoid on the 59 machine
and make a new one. that will set all the data structures in the registry
straight again.



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> "cameronjpu" <cameronjones******.com> wrote in message
> news:c805a824-73e0-44d7-8bde-6960f94994a2@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>>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.
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>> 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.
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>> The two computers' ipconfig/all outputs are below:
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>> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
>> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
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>> C:\Documents and Settings\Susan Stolov>ipconfig/all
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>> ***************************************REMOTE
>> COMPUTER************************
>> Windows IP Configuration
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>> Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Station01
>> Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
>> Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
>> IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
>> WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
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>> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
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>> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
>> Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE
>> Network Connecti
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>> 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
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>> ***************************************SERVER
>> COMPUTER************************
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>> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
>> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
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>> C:\Documents and Settings\Susan Stolov>ipconfig/all
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>> Windows IP Configuration
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>> Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : WIPMaster
>> Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
>> Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
>> IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
>> WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
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>> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
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>> 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
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>> C:\Documents and Settings\Susan Stolov>
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>> 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.
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>> Any clue about where to start looking?
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>> Thanks.
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