[geeks] Windows 7 File & Printer Sharing Nightmare

[Mark Benson]

On 07/01/2015 20:13, Mike Meredith wrote:

> After spending several hours demonstrating that it wasn't the DNS (it
> takes a while to overcome the "logical" conclusion), it was eventually
> diagnosed as a registry corruption. Turns out there's a registry key[1]
> that has something to do with DLLs used in name resolution, and the
> 64-bit one had been corrupted.
>
> Randomly.
>
> And it would sometimes fix itself. But not all the time.
>
> 0: At a time when I was huddled away in a build room trying to test a
>     new firewall (academic class).
>
> 1: Unfortunately I've not got the precise details, but I can probably
>     dig them up if it looks like it's worth checking. At least a
>     work-around[2].
>
> 2: Yes we're an ITIL shop. And yes my head hurts.

I'd appreciate you looking t up again if you could. Any lead is 
something I can try. I'm assuming you aren't aware of any change that 
could have broken it? I don't do much 'outside the box' with our Windows 
machines, so maybe an update?

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Mark Benson