IPv6 is installed and active....will give it a go...

On 5 October 2010 13:09, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote:

> wondering, do you have both TCP/IP v4 and TCP/IP v6 installed and activated
> on that interface ?  If so, try disabling v6 and see if you get any change.
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:30 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I found this article (
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;980873) but it
>> appears the issue is weirder than I thought. Even when the firewall is
>> disabled, the problem machine can access other machines and the internet
>> fine - but nothing can connect in the other direction. Every method of
>> connection fails with "network path not found" - and even more bizarrely,
>> when you open "Network" from the problem machine's Start Menu, it declares
>> "you are not connected to a network". Despite the fact it is enumerating
>> machines by the boatload in the window underneath.
>>
>> This looks a bit nasty - I think I will just flatten it. It's only a test
>> server, and apparently it was upgraded a few different times in the past, so
>> there may be a history of neglect and/or weirdness just waiting to bite me
>> on the backside here.
>>
>>
>> On 5 October 2010 12:13, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  Here's a strange one - I've got a Windows 2008 R2 server that for some
>>> reason has suddenly decided it is connected to a public, rather than a
>>> domain network. Despite the fact that the IP address hasn't changed (it's
>>> statically assigned) and I am logged on with domain credentials - it is
>>> showing as "Connected" to a public network and not surprisingly, the windows
>>> firewall is blocking just about everything, including ICA and RDP traffic,
>>> which is proving to be rather annoying. I thought it was something to do
>>> with the "Network Location Awareness" service, but that is running fine.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how the server determines what sort of network it is
>>> connected to, and how I could maybe convince it of the error of its ways?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> JRR
>>>
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>>> rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such
>>> a question."
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the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able
rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such
a question."

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