Vista Business Clients have TCP/IP stack problems?

[Mike_in_Nebraska]

Running a mix of WinXP Pro and Vista Business clients on our LAN -
Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium-based.

For unknown reasons, the Vista clients "lost" their network
connection. No IP, can't see the server in Network Places (althought
they CAN see other computers). I can PING the localhost, but got
error code 1231 for anthing else. A quick search saw it might be the
TCP/IP stack or Winsock. Tried "netsh int ip reset", reboot, "netsh
winsock reset", reboot, "netsh wi9nsock reset catalog", reboot,
uninstall the network adapter, reboot ..... all with the same result
on all Vista clients.

I made a very minor GP change on the server yesterday, so I restored
the GPO's from 2 weeks ago, that wasn't it. Did a restore on my PC to
~24 hours ago when all was well, that wasn't it. I've gone through
the Event logs but I don't see anything jumping out at me.

What's really odd is that WinXP clients are just fine; and I put
static IP's on the Vista clients and they can get on the internet
(although Network and Sharing Center shows a rex X between the server
and the internet), see network assets, print. However, Exchange won't
work ("Disconnected") and Windows Mail also is "Disconnected".

What's going on, and how can I fix it?

Many thanks in advance!
Mike

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Please repost your inquiry in the Windows Vista Networking Forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistanetworking/threads/


Running a mix of WinXP Pro and Vista Business clients on our LAN -
Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium-based.

For unknown reasons, the Vista clients "lost" their network
connection. No IP, can't see the server in Network Places (althought
they CAN see other computers). I can PING the localhost, but got
error code 1231 for anthing else. A quick search saw it might be the
TCP/IP stack or Winsock. Tried "netsh int ip reset", reboot, "netsh
winsock reset", reboot, "netsh wi9nsock reset catalog", reboot,
uninstall the network adapter, reboot ..... all with the same result
on all Vista clients.

I made a very minor GP change on the server yesterday, so I restored
the GPO's from 2 weeks ago, that wasn't it. Did a restore on my PC to
~24 hours ago when all was well, that wasn't it. I've gone through
the Event logs but I don't see anything jumping out at me.

What's really odd is that WinXP clients are just fine; and I put
static IP's on the Vista clients and they can get on the internet
(although Network and Sharing Center shows a rex X between the server
and the internet), see network assets, print. However, Exchange won't
work ("Disconnected") and Windows Mail also is "Disconnected".

What's going on, and how can I fix it?

Many thanks in advance!
Mike

 

[Mike_in_Nebraska]

Please repost your inquiry in the Windows Vista Networking Forum:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistanetworking...


Running a mix of WinXP Pro and Vista Business clients on our LAN -
Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium-based.

For unknown reasons, the Vista clients "lost" their network
connection.  No IP, can't see the server in Network Places (althought
they CAN see other computers).  I can PING the localhost, but got
error code 1231 for anthing else.  A quick search saw it might be the
TCP/IP stack or Winsock.  Tried "netsh int ip reset", reboot, "netsh
winsock reset", reboot, "netsh wi9nsock reset catalog", reboot,
uninstall the network adapter, reboot ..... all with the same result
on all Vista clients.

I made a very minor GP change on the server yesterday, so I restored
the GPO's from 2 weeks ago, that wasn't it.  Did a restore on my PC to
~24 hours ago when all was well, that wasn't it.  I've gone through
the Event logs but I don't see anything jumping out at me.

What's really odd is that WinXP clients are just fine; and I put
static IP's on the Vista clients and they can get on the internet
(although Network and Sharing Center shows a rex X between the server
and the internet), see network assets, print.  However, Exchange won't
work ("Disconnected") and Windows Mail also is "Disconnected".

What's going on, and how can I fix it?

Many thanks in advance!
Mike

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