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Don Emery
I have about 10 IBM Netvistas with Windows XP Pro, model 8307-81U,
that are all having sporatic issues on my Windows 2003 network. My
users will try to logon to the network with the machines and the
computer will act like it is logging onto the network and reconnecting
mapped drives via a logon script, but when they goto My Computer the
drives aren't mapped and when I try to go to My Network Places and
browse the network I get an error stating the network in unavailable.
I will then do an IP config and the computer has an IP address, DNS,
etc, but if I try to ipconfig/release and renew I get an error also.
I've run diagnostics and everything comes back fine, loopback works
fine, etc, but the computer still has problems with the network. The
only way I can sometimes get the machine to work is to logon as the
administrator of the local machine, log off and relogon as a user from
the network.
Like I said the issue is sporatic. I can always tell when it will not
work on the network because the Windows logon sound doesn't play and
during logon "Applying computer settings" takes for ever (3-5
minutes). All 10 have the same symptoms but the problem doesn't occur
at the same time. I've also looked at MAC addresses for the network
cards and they are all different. None of the other machines on my
network are having these issues which are a mix of Dells and other IBM
models.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks - Don
that are all having sporatic issues on my Windows 2003 network. My
users will try to logon to the network with the machines and the
computer will act like it is logging onto the network and reconnecting
mapped drives via a logon script, but when they goto My Computer the
drives aren't mapped and when I try to go to My Network Places and
browse the network I get an error stating the network in unavailable.
I will then do an IP config and the computer has an IP address, DNS,
etc, but if I try to ipconfig/release and renew I get an error also.
I've run diagnostics and everything comes back fine, loopback works
fine, etc, but the computer still has problems with the network. The
only way I can sometimes get the machine to work is to logon as the
administrator of the local machine, log off and relogon as a user from
the network.
Like I said the issue is sporatic. I can always tell when it will not
work on the network because the Windows logon sound doesn't play and
during logon "Applying computer settings" takes for ever (3-5
minutes). All 10 have the same symptoms but the problem doesn't occur
at the same time. I've also looked at MAC addresses for the network
cards and they are all different. None of the other machines on my
network are having these issues which are a mix of Dells and other IBM
models.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks - Don