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pokesquid808
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21 Jul 2004, 11:38pm

network issue....

Hey all this is my first post in this forum so bear with me recently i went to my college and had a mini lan party which was awesome. the only issue is that when i came back i could not connect to my data server or any other computer for that matter in my house. I can connect and ping using the ip address but not with the computer name i.e. \\computer. I tried redoing my workgroup which didn't work, i reset the router and all the switches thinking maybe it was some glitch. i was reading on computer.net and learned some stuff about dns and tried to manually input the dns from my router instead of trying to resolve it automatically. i've even tried switching network cards. my roommates computer works fine but my other roommate who went with me has the same issue. I was thinking that is has something to do with the schools network and their active directory setup or maybe my dns changed when i got to school and it's all finicky now. is there any resolution for this? i know reformatting will work but i really don't wanna do this because i've run across this issue before and i wanna know how to fix it. sorry for the long post. thanks for all your help guys! i read your tips and tricks all the time and have used quite a bit of them in helping friends out. thanks again
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entropy
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21 Jul 2004, 11:40pm
If anyone can figure this out, I generally get the same problem when coming home from lans (also if I try to directconnect with a friend). I usually have to redo my network setup and it works. But that's rather annoying..
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pokesquid808
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21 Jul 2004, 11:58pm
sorry i ment computing.net not computer.net
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pokesquid808
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22 Jul 2004, 7:53am
i think i might have found a temporary fix. my file server is freebsd and has a WINS server. What i think happened is that when i plugged my computer into the school network, the school has it's own wins server and therefore overwrote my lmhosts file. so by enabling the wins server option on my file server it's dumping back my old lmhosts file or something like that. i don't know exactly what it's doing but it worked i don't know if this is a permanent fix, if someone knows what i'm talking about and can verify this for me it would be awesome. thanks guys
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pokesquid808
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23 Jul 2004, 1:15am
ok so i was researching online and i think i figured out a fix that is permanent as i found out when my fileserver is off the problem persists. ok here we go.
first go to run and type cmd. then type ipconfig /all. you need to check the nodetype. mine said peer to peer. upon talking to the admins at the school i found out why. they set it to peer to peer so that it limits the broadcast by students. basically they said if 3000 students were allowed to broadcast even 1 packet it would bog down the system too much. upon hearing that i started to doing research online and found a way to set the nodetype to a "hybrid" that way it accepts everything. to set the nodetype go to regedit start->run->regedit
hkey_local_machine->system->currentcontrolset->services->netbt->parameters

then create a new DWORD by right clicking->new then select DWORD. call it "NodeType" double click on it and set it's value to 8. restart the computer and that should do it. worked for me hope it works for you.
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entropy
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entropy
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23 Jul 2004, 3:32am
Cool man, thanks!
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