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W. Watson · Guest

As a number of you undoubtedly know, I have had a problem with my local network since
installing SP2 7 days ago. The problem was solved about an hour ago. What most of you
need to know is the startling simple solution to problems with SP2 rather than
reading the rest of this. Here it is.

MS offers free technical support to SP2 issues! I almost fell over when I heard that.
Call (800) 936-5700, press 0 to get to an operator. Ask for technical support on SP2.
That's it. I spent nearly two hours with tech people before getting my local network
problem fixed. They were very good about it. For most, you can probably stop reading
right now.

I've posted several threads on this. I've spent way too much time on it. 7 days at
about 2-3 hours a day, and decided to see what MS paid support had to say. What they
contributed is indicated above. My problem was that I could not reach my other two
machines from the XP Pro machine after installing SP2 on it. I couldn't even ping the
machine I was on. Computers Near Me showed nothing. Here's basically what they did.

First Support Call:
1. Removed SP2
2. Had me download Adware and scan the machine for ads, popups, and whatever else it
detects. We then removed them.
3. Reboot, and install the latest driver for the network card.
4. Re-install SP2
That took about 80 minutes with me downloading Adware (2.6M) on a slow modem, 20K baud.
The problems remained.

Second Support Call (this is a little less accurately recalled):
1. reset winsock
2. Rebooted but no change. Used ipconfig and ping to check things.
3. removed tcp/ip
4. rebooted.
5. reinstalled tcp/ip.
6. rebooted? no change. More ipconfig and pinging.
7. Examined LAN connection on Networking from Control Panel.
Nothing useful, but Network Places was now showing this computer.
Pinging was still bad.
8. Tried ipconfig again. Questioned why the IP address for this
machine was not what I had set it to months ago before all this
started. Decided to set it to 192.168.0.3 as it should be.

Problem solved! It worked. I could ping this computer and the other one.
Network Places now showed both computers.

I asked the tecnician how the address got changed. Probably the SP2 install. Don't
know. Sounds likely. It's over.

Now I can get back to the network problem I originally had before I took an
unexpected tangent on SP2. It's Samba and XP. Who knows? It might work now.

Thanks to all who put up with all my frantic postings.

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Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
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