Win2000 upgrade - no internet access

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Guest

I upgraded from WinNT to Win2000. No Internet and no LAN access. No drivers availabel for the old NIC so I bought a new one. Now I can see a couple of computers on my LAN but still no Internet access.

Any ideas what I haven't done yet?
 
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Gary

What are your error messages?

I would check your default gateway and DNS settings in your TCP/IP
configuration on the Win2K machine. If you're seeing the network...it's
just a configuration issue probably. If you do have a DNS Server
designated...I'd make sure it's a valid server. You can check with your
ISP. They can tell you the IP address it should be set for.

I usually check to see if DNS is resolving by pinging a domain name like
microsoft.com or something. Even if it doesn't ping, it should at least
give you the address that it's attempting to ping. If it can't figure out
the address...your computer can't connect to it's DNS Server. That means
either you don't have one configured, configured your workstation to point
to the wrong one, or the server isn't accessable for some reason...(no
internet...firewall issue...wrong default gateway...whatever).

Jim said:
I upgraded from WinNT to Win2000. No Internet and no LAN access. No
drivers availabel for the old NIC so I bought a new one. Now I can see a
couple of computers on my LAN but still no Internet access.
 

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