It has been a heck of a day.
I have been working on a client laptop connectivity issue for a while.
Their laptop was working great, and this guy is the owner of a business and hates computers. He strictly uses it to get email, type letters and communicate on his forums.
That being said...
1. It was working great while on the Internal IPs of the main office...then
2. I set it up at his apartment (also his satellite office/warehouse) and it was working fine there as
well...until
3. One day I hear from him that it isn't working at his apartment. So I go there and not a single computer in the building can connect to the M$ SBS domain at his main office...and then
4. I take the laptop back to to the home office and I can't connect from the Internal IPs nor can I even get an IP through DHCP...and to top it all off
5. I bring the laptop home today to see if I can get it to work...and whammo the first time it hooks right up I can access all the info on the shared drives, Exchange server, everything.
I am so confused...I thought at first it may be a RPC service or RPC Locator service issue...but I was wrong. Then I thought ok, maybe DHCP on the server isn't accepting DHCPDISCOVER requests beyond number 1...wrong. Then I though well maybe it is a firewall configuration issue...and bringing it home and hooking up just fine discounts that idea...
I am out of ideas. The laptop is an HP with Windows XP Pro SP2, the servers are Suse 9.3 except for the FlashCommServer which is Redhat, it has a 3Com gigabit switch, and a Cisco 2600 router...I have been bangin my head on the wall trying to get this off my plate.
If anyone can think of anything, please post or send me an email with your recommendations.
benjamin@shiverstudios.com
Thanks a ton,
B
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