"Fast Biker Boy" wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm tearing my hair out with this one and desperately trying to avoid a
> reinstallation of windows.any help much appreciated
>
> I look after a small network of 6 office computers all of which are
> networked together fine and access the internet through a router.
>
> One computer though will not browse the internet either using internet
> explorer or firefox.
> Neither can it access our email server usiing thunderbird or outlook
> express. This is a fairly recent development and has in the past worked okay.
> All other computers on the network work fine.
>
> I receive "cannot connect to www.xxxx.xxx" and "server not found" messages
> etc when trying to browse depending on browser. Email connection atempts also
> result in "server not found" messages. I cannot browse either using IP
> addresses ie http://66.102.11.99. All IE connection settings look okay.
>
> I can via a command line ping all other computers on the network including
> the router and ping any web address via either its DNS reference or IP
> address eg. www.google.com or http://66.102.11.99. I receive replies okay
> with no packet loss at all.
>
> I can sign in to MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger etc okay.
>
> So far I have done the following
>    1. Virus, ad-aware, and spyware scans as well as I can remembering that I
> cannot update definitions etc due to the connection problem
>    2. Ran hijack this and found nothing untoward running in the background
>    3. Applied Winsock and LSP fixes downloaded from various links found on
> this site.
>    4. Manually deleted "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock" &
>        "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2" and imported fresh 
>          keys that I've downloaded (via another computer on the network
> obviously)
>    5. ran netsh from a command line as follows
>         i)  netsh winsock reset c:\winsockresetlog.txt
>         ii) netsh int ip reset c:\intresetlog.txt
>
> In between all of the above I have rebooted and tried to web browse and
> receive emails all with the same result.
>
> IPCONFIG /all shows that the computer is being allocated an IP address via
> the router DHCP on the network and the correct gateway address (ie the
> router) and DNS server shown also as the router.
>
> Am I really looking at a reinstallation of windows? I'd prefer not to do
> that as the computer in question is the main file server for industry
> specialist software that the company uses. This problem as I have said
> appeared almost overnight and not following any software installation. Any
> help very much appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
>  
> a very desperate
> 
> FBB
> Remeber kids, don't try this at home

"storlogic" wrote:

> Have you tried giving it a static IP (set DNS and WINS setting manually as
> well) and seeing if it works? Disabled Windows Firewall? Is it possible to
> plug this into a different network jack to see if it has something to do with
> it?  Different cable?  Reboot the firewall (I've seen this work a few times
> for many different scenerios).
>
> Hope one of these helps.
>
> -storlogic
>
> "Fast Biker Boy" wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm tearing my hair out with this one and desperately trying to avoid a
> > reinstallation of windows.any help much appreciated
> >
> > I look after a small network of 6 office computers all of which are
> > networked together fine and access the internet through a router.
> >
> > One computer though will not browse the internet either using internet
> > explorer or firefox.
> > Neither can it access our email server usiing thunderbird or outlook
> > express. This is a fairly recent development and has in the past worked okay.
> > All other computers on the network work fine.
> >
> > I receive "cannot connect to www.xxxx.xxx" and "server not found" messages
> > etc when trying to browse depending on browser. Email connection atempts also
> > result in "server not found" messages. I cannot browse either using IP
> > addresses ie http://66.102.11.99. All IE connection settings look okay.
> >
> > I can via a command line ping all other computers on the network including
> > the router and ping any web address via either its DNS reference or IP
> > address eg. www.google.com or http://66.102.11.99. I receive replies okay
> > with no packet loss at all.
> >
> > I can sign in to MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger etc okay.
> >
> > So far I have done the following
> >    1. Virus, ad-aware, and spyware scans as well as I can remembering that I
> > cannot update definitions etc due to the connection problem
> >    2. Ran hijack this and found nothing untoward running in the background
> >    3. Applied Winsock and LSP fixes downloaded from various links found on
> > this site.
> >    4. Manually deleted "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock" &
> >        "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2" and imported fresh 
> >          keys that I've downloaded (via another computer on the network
> > obviously)
> >    5. ran netsh from a command line as follows
> >         i)  netsh winsock reset c:\winsockresetlog.txt
> >         ii) netsh int ip reset c:\intresetlog.txt
> >
> > In between all of the above I have rebooted and tried to web browse and
> > receive emails all with the same result.
> >
> > IPCONFIG /all shows that the computer is being allocated an IP address via
> > the router DHCP on the network and the correct gateway address (ie the
> > router) and DNS server shown also as the router.
> >
> > Am I really looking at a reinstallation of windows? I'd prefer not to do
> > that as the computer in question is the main file server for industry
> > specialist software that the company uses. This problem as I have said
> > appeared almost overnight and not following any software installation. Any
> > help very much appreciated.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >  
> > a very desperate
> > 
> > FBB
> > Remeber kids, don't try this at home

"Fast Biker Boy" <FastBiker***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:08C03663-0960-4A53-8D0C-498878F63CB7@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> I'm tearing my hair out with this one and desperately trying to avoid a
> reinstallation of windows.any help much appreciated
>
> I look after a small network of 6 office computers all of which are
> networked together fine and access the internet through a router.
>
> One computer though will not browse the internet either using internet
> explorer or firefox.
> Neither can it access our email server usiing thunderbird or outlook
> express. This is a fairly recent development and has in the past worked
okay.
> All other computers on the network work fine.
>
> I receive "cannot connect to www.xxxx.xxx" and "server not found" messages
> etc when trying to browse depending on browser. Email connection atempts
also
> result in "server not found" messages. I cannot browse either using IP
> addresses ie http://66.102.11.99. All IE connection settings look okay.
>
> I can via a command line ping all other computers on the network including
> the router and ping any web address via either its DNS reference or IP
> address eg. www.google.com or http://66.102.11.99. I receive replies okay
> with no packet loss at all.
>
> I can sign in to MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger etc okay.
>
> So far I have done the following
>    1. Virus, ad-aware, and spyware scans as well as I can remembering that
I
> cannot update definitions etc due to the connection problem
>    2. Ran hijack this and found nothing untoward running in the background
>    3. Applied Winsock and LSP fixes downloaded from various links found on
> this site.
>    4. Manually deleted "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock" &
>        "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2" and imported
fresh
>          keys that I've downloaded (via another computer on the network
> obviously)
>    5. ran netsh from a command line as follows
>         i)  netsh winsock reset c:\winsockresetlog.txt
>         ii) netsh int ip reset c:\intresetlog.txt
>
> In between all of the above I have rebooted and tried to web browse and
> receive emails all with the same result.
>
> IPCONFIG /all shows that the computer is being allocated an IP address via
> the router DHCP on the network and the correct gateway address (ie the
> router) and DNS server shown also as the router.
>
> Am I really looking at a reinstallation of windows? I'd prefer not to do
> that as the computer in question is the main file server for industry
> specialist software that the company uses. This problem as I have said
> appeared almost overnight and not following any software installation. Any
> help very much appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
>
> a very desperate
>
> FBB
> Remeber kids, don't try this at home

"Fast Biker Boy" wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm tearing my hair out with this one and desperately trying to avoid a
> reinstallation of windows.any help much appreciated
>
> I look after a small network of 6 office computers all of which are
> networked together fine and access the internet through a router.
>
> One computer though will not browse the internet either using internet
> explorer or firefox.
> Neither can it access our email server usiing thunderbird or outlook
> express. This is a fairly recent development and has in the past worked okay.
> All other computers on the network work fine.
>
> I receive "cannot connect to www.xxxx.xxx" and "server not found" messages
> etc when trying to browse depending on browser. Email connection atempts also
> result in "server not found" messages. I cannot browse either using IP
> addresses ie http://66.102.11.99. All IE connection settings look okay.
>
> I can via a command line ping all other computers on the network including
> the router and ping any web address via either its DNS reference or IP
> address eg. www.google.com or http://66.102.11.99. I receive replies okay
> with no packet loss at all.
>
> I can sign in to MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger etc okay.
>
> So far I have done the following
>    1. Virus, ad-aware, and spyware scans as well as I can remembering that I
> cannot update definitions etc due to the connection problem
>    2. Ran hijack this and found nothing untoward running in the background
>    3. Applied Winsock and LSP fixes downloaded from various links found on
> this site.
>    4. Manually deleted "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock" &
>        "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2" and imported fresh 
>          keys that I've downloaded (via another computer on the network
> obviously)
>    5. ran netsh from a command line as follows
>         i)  netsh winsock reset c:\winsockresetlog.txt
>         ii) netsh int ip reset c:\intresetlog.txt
>
> In between all of the above I have rebooted and tried to web browse and
> receive emails all with the same result.
>
> IPCONFIG /all shows that the computer is being allocated an IP address via
> the router DHCP on the network and the correct gateway address (ie the
> router) and DNS server shown also as the router.
>
> Am I really looking at a reinstallation of windows? I'd prefer not to do
> that as the computer in question is the main file server for industry
> specialist software that the company uses. This problem as I have said
> appeared almost overnight and not following any software installation. Any
> help very much appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
>  
> a very desperate
> 
> FBB
> Remeber kids, don't try this at home