Worth a thought....I'll have a think about how to sort it out once and for all when I arrive tomorrow, as in this part of the world, it's just about quitting time :-)
On 5 October 2010 15:11, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: > You could always change the local login/password using Pete Nordahl's Boot > Disk. It won't change Domain username/password, but it'll work on all but > domain controllers. Here's a link to that -- > http://www.pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/<http://www.pogostick.net/%7Epnh/ntpasswd/> > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:07 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Weird Windows firewall issue > > 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 > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' 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