I have an XP Pro machine that quite connecting to the server on my LAN and quit getting IP address from a DHCP server. I believe that happened when the registry got mangled either by a virus or the virus repair proceedure. I tracked the problem down to a missing key: My Computer\Hkey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Linkage.
A properly working machine has that key with four values named Bind, Export, OtherDependencies, and Route. Each is word type REG_MULTI_SZ and the data for OtherDependencies is Tcpip. The Bind, Export, and Route data consists of the 32 character identifiers used throughout the registry. I'm sure that copying them from a working machine would not solve my problem. This section was totally missing from the problem machine. Adding as much of the key as I know allows the machine to get an IP address from a DHCP server but the machine will still not connect to other windows machines on my LAN. I thought that uninstalling and reinstalling the network drivers should get everything straightened up but after doing so, the data fields are still empty and the machine can't see any machine on the LAN. Is there a way to determine the process needed to have Windows populate these fields? Any way to determine what should be in them? Is there perhaps a registry hacker tool that would make figuring things out easier? Other ideas? Wisdom? (This is a machine with no easy restore possible. A reinstallation of the OS would mean I loose the Microsoft Office installation it waws shipped with.) Thanks in advance, Joe --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CABQeDnWW7+M+Pk0yGB=9-cfmvb3pteri7zqe29o65bq3ahy...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
