Computers looses network connection

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Hello

I have a server running windows 2000 server edition and I
am having some network problems.

A curious thing that happens is if I unplug the network
cable and then reconnect it again, the machine becomes
inaccessible to the other computers on the network and it
cannot access those machines as well.
A restart solves it.

What could be the problem?

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

you may just need to renew the ip. this step by step troubleshooting may help. http://www.howtonetworking.com/Troubleshooting/notaccessibale0.htm

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Hello

I have a server running windows 2000 server edition and I
am having some network problems.

A curious thing that happens is if I unplug the network
cable and then reconnect it again, the machine becomes
inaccessible to the other computers on the network and it
cannot access those machines as well.
A restart solves it.

What could be the problem?

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Unplugging the cable is the cause of the problem, and the cure is not to do
that.

As Robert suggested, you can probably fix the problem immediately by opening
a command window and entering the command IPCONFIG /RENEW to get a valid IP
address back.

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