> The situation is we have 2 buildings each on a different subnet
> (we'll call them building A and building B). I've come across a PC
> that I can not log into the domain in building B. I've tried
> different cube locations but still recieve a msg the domain could not
> be found. I am able to connect different computers in those same
> locations successfully (all built with same process). I bring the
> affected PC back to building A and it connects fine. We've tried
> release/renew, remove/readd to domain, ran gpupdate, etc. (non work
> from building B). I am however able to get to the internet from both
> buildings. We then took a new PC and built it and transfered all user
> data/profiles etc. to the new buid, worked fine in building A,
> brought it to building B and again cannot connect to the network.
> Any suggestions?

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> Carefully look at the results of ipconfig /all from a pc that works and one
> that doesn't. You are looking for any differences at all. Post the results
> here if you like. The only differences should be the IP address and the MAC
> address.
>
> --
> Kerry
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
> http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
>
>
>
> dprivette wrote:
> > The situation is we have 2 buildings each on a different subnet
> > (we'll call them building A and building B). I've come across a PC
> > that I can not log into the domain in building B. I've tried
> > different cube locations but still recieve a msg the domain could not
> > be found. I am able to connect different computers in those same
> > locations successfully (all built with same process). I bring the
> > affected PC back to building A and it connects fine. We've tried
> > release/renew, remove/readd to domain, ran gpupdate, etc. (non work
> > from building B). I am however able to get to the internet from both
> > buildings. We then took a new PC and built it and transfered all user
> > data/profiles etc. to the new buid, worked fine in building A,
> > brought it to building B and again cannot connect to the network.
> > Any suggestions?
>
>
>

> Well after another 90 minutes at looking into this issue, we started
> sniffing down the Windows Firewall path. Nothing came up until we
> noticed the the Symantec Personal Firewall sw was installed. This is
> a client that we run on our Laptops. 2 things here, First - we don't
> ever install this on PC's hence why we never went looking for it on
> this machine so it must have been installed by mistake via SMS
> (someone fat fingered the WSID). Second - building B is a new
> building in which we have not set the exceptions for that subnet in
> our Symantec Admin Console yet. Removed the Client and all is now
> working!
>
> A lovely waste of a morning!
>
> "Kerry Brown" wrote:
>
>> Carefully look at the results of ipconfig /all from a pc that works
>> and one that doesn't. You are looking for any differences at all.
>> Post the results here if you like. The only differences should be
>> the IP address and the MAC address.
>>
>> --
>> Kerry
>> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>> http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
>>
>>
>>
>> dprivette wrote:
>>> The situation is we have 2 buildings each on a different subnet
>>> (we'll call them building A and building B). I've come across a PC
>>> that I can not log into the domain in building B. I've tried
>>> different cube locations but still recieve a msg the domain could
>>> not be found. I am able to connect different computers in those same
>>> locations successfully (all built with same process). I bring the
>>> affected PC back to building A and it connects fine. We've tried
>>> release/renew, remove/readd to domain, ran gpupdate, etc. (non work
>>> from building B). I am however able to get to the internet from both
>>> buildings. We then took a new PC and built it and transfered all
>>> user data/profiles etc. to the new buid, worked fine in building A,
>>> brought it to building B and again cannot connect to the network.
>>> Any suggestions?