Win2K machine no longer finds LAN

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Chris

We recently had to take down our entire net. When it was
brought back up, one of the Win2K machines can no longer
find the LAN workgroup, although it finds the 'net fine
through the hub & dsl router. Other machines on the LAN
have no problem finding the workgroup.

No cabling or devices were changed.
 
Chris said:
We recently had to take down our entire net. When it was
brought back up, one of the Win2K machines can no longer
find the LAN workgroup, although it finds the 'net fine
through the hub & dsl router. Other machines on the LAN
have no problem finding the workgroup.

No cabling or devices were changed.
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- Check the IP address of the problem machine.
- Check the domain/workgroup name of the problem machine.
- Try to ping in both directions.
- Check your firewall settings.
 
- Check the IP address of the problem machine.
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Automagically assigned. No problem and no conflicts.
- Check the domain/workgroup name of the problem machine.
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It is set to common workgroup name. We run and domainless
network right now.
- Try to ping in both directions.
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All machines will ping addresses 'off the reservation' and
will ping themselves (127.0.0.1). Problem machine will
NOT ping any machine on the LAN, although pinging even the
router works.
- Check your firewall settings.
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Win2K machine with no configured firewall right now.

The funny thing about this is that everything worked fine
before the net was brought down (due to electrical
problems). The net was brought down gracefully with no
problems. There were absoutly no changes made to config
or hardware. Only this one machine will not see the
workgroup (out of five).
 
Automagically assigned. No problem and no conflicts.
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While trouble-shooting, you must assign a fixed address
to the problem machine, making sure it is in the same
subnet as your other machines. You can then do your
ping and your connection tests.
 
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