Guest nick.p.brewer@gmail.com Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Hello all, I am having issues with some faculty's personal Vista laptops not being able to surf the internet. (they are NOTt authenticating to the domain... just connecting to the network) - i also verifed that it does the same with a Vista white box i have here that authenticates to the domain We are a 2003 Domain running internal DHCP and DNS (which forwards to our ISP DNS servers). All of our XP, 2000 and Mac Computers are working fine. When Windows Vista Computers connect to our network (via wireless or wired lan) they obtain IP, Subnet, Gateway and DNS info from our servers no problem. When looking at ipconfig everything looks fine. BUT... the network connection icon in the tray says "Local only" for internet connection. When trying to surf the net you get the the classic 'cannot connect to webpage' dns type errors. i can ping internal machines by name and ip no problem. but i can't even surf to sites via ip. i can ping the dns server and gateway it does the same thing if i set static TCP/IP info except... Here's the catch - I can have the adapter get an IP from DHCP and manually set the DNS server to our ISP's DNS (which we use as forwarding DNS addresses on our DNS server) and it works fine. (obviously this isn't a good work around... when teachers take the laptop home, it won't work on their home networks) but as soon as i tell it to use our internal DNS, it bombs. So, i've pretty much got it pinned down to some relationship issue between our DNS server and windows vista. I'm guessing there is some setting i need to set to get this going. Any ideas?
Guest Robert L \(MS-MVP\) Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Re: VISTA DNS ISSUES Check if there is a new driver for the NIC. Also check these links, Vista Local Only Issues http://www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistalocalonly.htm -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com <nick.p.brewer@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1192635238.818859.22830@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com... > Hello all, > > I am having issues with some faculty's personal Vista laptops not > being able to surf the internet. (they are NOTt authenticating to the > domain... just connecting to the network) - i also verifed that it > does the same with a Vista white box i have here that authenticates to > the domain > > We are a 2003 Domain running internal DHCP and DNS (which forwards to > our ISP DNS servers). > > All of our XP, 2000 and Mac Computers are working fine. > > When Windows Vista Computers connect to our network (via wireless or > wired lan) they obtain IP, Subnet, Gateway and DNS info from our > servers no problem. When looking at ipconfig everything looks fine. > > BUT... the network connection icon in the tray says "Local only" for > internet connection. When trying to surf the net you get the the > classic 'cannot connect to webpage' dns type errors. > > i can ping internal machines by name and ip no problem. but i can't > even surf to sites via ip. > i can ping the dns server and gateway > it does the same thing if i set static TCP/IP info > > except... > > Here's the catch - I can have the adapter get an IP from DHCP and > manually set the DNS server to our ISP's DNS (which we use as > forwarding DNS addresses on our DNS server) and it works fine. > (obviously this isn't a good work around... when teachers take the > laptop home, it won't work on their home networks) > > but as soon as i tell it to use our internal DNS, it bombs. > > So, i've pretty much got it pinned down to some relationship issue > between our DNS server and windows vista. > I'm guessing there is some setting i need to set to get this going. > > Any ideas? >
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