Vista reported "local access only" in the Network Sharing Center. I had no local or internet access. I can't tell you specifics such as whether or not it was getting an IP because I was working to solve the problem remotely with a non-techie and we just didn't check that. I know what the change was that brought this on for me, but I don't believe it's relevant to you. For me, it was updating a couple AP's from WPA-PSK to WPA2-AES. If you google for that phrase "local access only" online, you will find vast amounts of posts on the topic. It doesn't sound like the cause for me is the same for you, as you mentioned you used updated drivers. But since I recently researched this, I thought I would offer some of the other tips to you as they might help. HTH.
-- Mike Gill From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista, 7, etc method of determining if a network connection has "Internet Access" Did you actually lose Internet access or did it just tell you it had no access? I see Vista frequently become confused about Internet access - it says I don't have it, but I actually do. It determines Internet access by checking whether it can get to a certain MS URL - if not, then it reports Local Only. So I'm guessing maybe sometimes that site isn't responding, or it doesn't re-check very often, or some such thing. Carl From: Mike Gill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista, 7, etc method of determining if a network connection has "Internet Access" I had a problem recently with Vista claiming "local access only", which sounds similar maybe to what you're dealing with. Vista wouldn't allow me to get online. Ultimately I updated the wireless driver which solved it. But before that I tried per this advice found on google which may be helpful to you: - disabling any IPV6 protocols bound to the NIC - netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled - Edit registry to add DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle (1) to MKLM\System\currentcontrolset\ services\tcpip\parameters\interfaces\{GUID for wireless card} - Or use this tool instead of the regedit: http://www.reviewingit.com/index.php/content/view/61/1/ The odd thing was I had varying degrees of success with each of the items in the list. But upon reboots I would lose access again. -- Mike Gill > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Richard Stovall > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 4:18 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Vista, 7, etc method of determining if a network connection has > "Internet Access" > > Does anyone have a good reference that explains exactly how Vista and > newer Microsoft Operating Systems determine whether a particular NIC has > "Internet Access?" I'm talking about the really annoying 'feature' > where the network stack automagically tries to determine whether a > particular NIC has a route to the internet. > > I'm curious b/c our Pix SmartFilter plugin (now owned by McAfee) is > messing with a couple of machines and breaking their ability to actually > get to the internet. If I disable filtering for the machines' ip > addresses there's no problem at all. With filtering enabled they > completely lose their ability to get on the internet when their DHCP > leases renew and you have to disable then re-enable the NICs. > (SmartFilter of course says that there's no way it's related to their > product...) > > TIA, > RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
