well crap !  At least worth a try, and interesting feedback

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:06 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well disabling IPv6 and then, strangely, re-enabling it allowed the server
> to start responding to pings....however, I now can't log on to it because of
> the old "trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain
> failed" error. As luck would have it, just when I thought I was getting
> somewhere, it turns out no-one has any idea what the local username and
> password would be for this system...so it looks like I'm going to have to
> nuke it from orbit.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
>
> On 5 October 2010 13:35, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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> 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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