Open Thank You to Globalstrata

Gladys, I joined Tek-Tips just to thank you for your tip shown below:

globalstrata (MIS)
Nov 11, 2002
Instead of a repair, try installing another protocol such as NETBEUI and then remove TCP/IP and re-add it. After that you can remove the other protocol (NETBEUI if that is what you installed)

Sometimes, TCP/IP gets corrupted and in order to re-install, you need to have another protocol running.

Gladys Rodriguez
GlobalStrata Solutions

http://www.globalstrata.com

I'm not a professional IT person by any means but am a fair amateur hack which means I know just enough to be dangerous. Anyway, I had been messing with privacy apps and had downloaded one from a well known security expert. Through no fault of his, I managed to shut down my NetBT on one machine, and in troubleshooting my network managed to shoot the second one today. Fortunately I had a 3rd unit running and began searching for answers. No matter what I tried, I could not start up NetBios on either machine.

I hit upon your 2002 tip from a Google search and tried it. Within 10 minutes I had both machines back on line (one had been off line for several days).

Thank you for donating the time and effort it takes to belong to a forum such as this. You saved me what I am sure would have been many more hours of troubleshooting to solve this problem.

Thank you again,
AirEngineer

 

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For others with similar issues:

. For Win9x see the comments 4/29/2002 by forum member PeanutsMM: thread581-177979

. For any windows version, try the utility discussed in faq779-4625 as an alternative or sole source if NT, Win2k or XP.

. For XP start with faq779-4625
If no joy, follow the second half of this MS KB Starting with "How to repair Winsock2 Corruption":

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811259