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My wife's computer has for a number of years been doubling as my home
network's print spooler having a shared printer connected to it (and she's
also my Time Server). Last couple of days, I've been pulling my hair out
trying to figure out why I can no longer connect to the printer nor the time
service. Furthermore, her computer has been exhibiting some rather strange
behavior she tells me - the "Run", "Log Off", and "Shut Down" commands have
disappeared from her Start Menu - and if I pull up the Group Policy MSC and
toggle the settings that make the items re-appear - they'll disappear again
within a minute or two. Her machine has the latest Norton AV and Internet
Security software along with Ad-Aware Pro and Ad-Watch running in the
background. I've gone through all the settings of these and have
experimented with disabling all of them - all to no avail. I noticed when I
ran a constant ping on another machine within the subnet, that ping can
connect during the boot process but gets blocked sometime after logon. I
tried removing all the startup items in the registry
(HKLM\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) and rebooting with the
same results. I enabled Logging during Bootup, but the log entries are no
different than a previous entry made 6 months ago. What's curious is that
from her machine, I can connect to any other machine within my subnet, but no
other machine can reach her machine via TCP or NetBios.
Can someone give me some ideas on where to go from here? I don't want to
get drastic and do a re-install of Win2K Pro - but that's about the only
thing I can think of at this point.
TIA
network's print spooler having a shared printer connected to it (and she's
also my Time Server). Last couple of days, I've been pulling my hair out
trying to figure out why I can no longer connect to the printer nor the time
service. Furthermore, her computer has been exhibiting some rather strange
behavior she tells me - the "Run", "Log Off", and "Shut Down" commands have
disappeared from her Start Menu - and if I pull up the Group Policy MSC and
toggle the settings that make the items re-appear - they'll disappear again
within a minute or two. Her machine has the latest Norton AV and Internet
Security software along with Ad-Aware Pro and Ad-Watch running in the
background. I've gone through all the settings of these and have
experimented with disabling all of them - all to no avail. I noticed when I
ran a constant ping on another machine within the subnet, that ping can
connect during the boot process but gets blocked sometime after logon. I
tried removing all the startup items in the registry
(HKLM\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) and rebooting with the
same results. I enabled Logging during Bootup, but the log entries are no
different than a previous entry made 6 months ago. What's curious is that
from her machine, I can connect to any other machine within my subnet, but no
other machine can reach her machine via TCP or NetBios.
Can someone give me some ideas on where to go from here? I don't want to
get drastic and do a re-install of Win2K Pro - but that's about the only
thing I can think of at this point.
TIA