No connection to the Internet is currently available.

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Harri

Hi!

This is driving me grazy now. I have fairly new
installation of WinXP Pro and it has worked very well
untill recently. No strange programs installed, and
specifically, no software installed when the problem
occured.

Symptoms1: I try to connect to IMAP server while I do
have a working web-connection open. I get the message:"No
connection to the Internet is currently available. To
view Internet content that has been saved on your
computer, click Work Offline." This comes about always.
When I click "Try again" I get the connection always.

Symptoms2: I come to workplace with the laptop, log in.
Change web-settings to workplace settings. Plug in the
LAN cable. Open web. Open X-session to our Unix server.
Try to open mapped network drives, but they are not
there - even though they are on the same Unix server that
I'm connected to. After reboot, everything works (except
the Symptoms 1).

At work I'm connected to the local LAN, and internet
through that.

Symptoms3: (Not sure if this applies.) At home, when I
change the net settings to home settings, sometimes (if
not always) internet connection is working on the IP-
level, but I can not get my IPS's DNS servers. After
reboot, they are there again.

At home I have a cable, with fixed IP and no PPPoP (or
what ever they are). And I do have XP... all I have found
are either for Win98 or those PPPoP -thingies...

And, actually I have a dual boot WinXP, and the other
WinXP in the same machine and networks, do not have this
problem. So it definitely is a problem in the XP.

Please help me! I do not know any other solutions than to
reinstall XP...

Harri
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Hi!

Thanks for answer... but:
-----Original Message-----
Symptom 2:
<snip>
I come to workplace with the laptop, log in.
Change web-settings to workplace settings. Plug in the
LAN cable.
<snip>

Try to connect your network cable before you turn on your laptop or
before you log into your LAN. It seem like you stated you log into your
network without the LAN cable....unless I misinterpreted
Click to expand...
your problem.

You did misinterpret it... If I had the computer home,
there is a large chance, that the net settings are wrong
for the work domain. So log into the computer first (to
the domain without the cable - Windows caches the passwd
challenges) change the settings, then plug-in. This
works. Or should. It did work for many months.
Symptom 3: Why not manually enter your DNS server addresses into your
TCP/IP settings instead of getting them via DHCP (it sounds like that is
how it's setup)?
Click to expand...

Again no. I have everything set manually both at work and
at home. I did not mention DHCP at all, because I do not
use it at all (if I was able to use it either at home, or
at work, I would not have to change the net settings
manually always - well with a bat). Both connections are
essentially LAN settings. And they haven't changes, so
the problem isn't there.

One more thing I just noticed. MediaPlayer can not access
internet at all, even now that I'm typing this with very
well working internet connection... Does that tell
anybody anything?

Harri
(e-mail address removed)
 
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