Hello All. I'm stumped, and I'm hoping some of you MS types out there will have an answer.
I have a friend with a fairly new PC, running XPpro, SP2, on a small network with a small SME server NOT setup as a domain controller. Last week he was working with the networking
wizard, and is now having problems. The PC stopped working on the Internet.
When I got there, I noticed his net settings looked OK. I could actually hit websites via IP but not directly. I tried different DNS servers, from different ISP's, still broken. I applied the IPstackFix, still broken. Then I did a net view, and got the "could not get workgroup info" error. Then I
looked at his Workgroup/Domain and host name settings. He was set to loginto a domain. I thought, "this could cause the problems he is seeing" So, I switched him from Domain auth, to no domain login with a new "workgroup" name, and rebooted. After restarting, I checked, and he was still set to
"login to network using a domain controller. I again changed him to NOT login to a domain, and rebooted. Still set to login to a domain.
I have switched PC's between domain login and workgroup before (hundreds of times). But, I have never seen a PC REFUSE to switch.
The actual problem with this PC is no name resolution, on the local network between his 3 PC's, or on the internet. You can access resources via IP.
Anybody seen this before?
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