[geeks] Urk! Win 2K question...

[Tom Borton]

Have you tried simply disabling and re-enabling the interface through
the GUI?  The use of ipconfig relies on the name of the interface, even
for the "_all" options, and I've seen a number of cases where ipconfig
shows the CLSID (long hex string in braces) rather than "Local Area
Connection".  When it does that, ipconfig is worthless, but doing
Start/Settings/Network/Local Area Connection, Disable button, and then
repeating the menu options to re-enabled, has always worked for me.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Peter L. Wargo
Sent: 11 February 2002 13:20
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: [geeks] Urk! Win 2K question...


<shakes head sadly>
I can't believe I'm asking this, but here goes...

An executive in my chain has a win2K laptop that is behaving oddly (and
we've seen this on other win2k boxes) - it cannot get a DHCP address
correctly after time has passed.  The NT server says "yes, it has this
address", but the laptop (and other desktops from time to time) comes up
with 0.0.0.0.  Weincreased the number of addresses available, so there
is
not a pool problem (Besides, the server thinks everything is *fine*).

If we *manually* assign an address, reboot, then select DHCP and reboot
again, everything works like a charm.

I ^(^&()!! hate windowz...

-Pete

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Peter L. Wargo
pwargo at basenji.com
Owner/operator of basenji.com.
[This space for rent]