Vista on an XP network, help!

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for the past 2 months my vista computer connected to my network and worked on the internet etc. All of a sudden, I cannot connect to the internet with my Vista computer (the other XP computers are working fine, hence how im able to scream for help :) ). I can still connect to the network, although it says "local only". I have searched the internet and have tried tonnes of things. Tell me if I have missed anything :p :
1) added DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle in registery and set value to 1
2) gone to services.msc and disabled and stopped IP Helper
3) Changed DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag to 0
4) tried changing EnableDhcp to 0
5) Tried unticking the TCP/IPv6 for the network connection (when I did that I wouldn't be able to connect to the network at all)

If ya's need any info about my router just say, thanks in advance!


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Its wirelessly connected and it cannot see other computers on the network
 
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Schizophonic said:
When you say it conects "local" can you browse any shared drived on other PCs.

I just to conclude that your Vista PC is actually on the network?
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I can't see any other computers on the network, although I don't recall ever being able to see any other PC's on the network
 
If the PC is connected through as Wireless and its "connected" onto the Wireless routers - your other PCs must be on the network too.

Try turning off your firewall and see if that does anything.
Also do a quick test to ping your router (i prosume you know how to do that)

If the wireless all works it but be something to do with internet explorer not picking up the settings.
 
Schizophonic said:
If the PC is connected through as Wireless and its "connected" onto the Wireless routers - your other PCs must be on the network too.

Try turning off your firewall and see if that does anything.
Also do a quick test to ping your router (i prosume you know how to do that)

If the wireless all works it but be something to do with internet explorer not picking up the settings.
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I can Ping my router sucessfully, and im using Mozilla Firefox, and I just tried Internet Explorer and it didn't work either. Im also not using any firewall but Windows Firewall
 
In vista you need to "trust" the network. In the network options it'll come up as "unknown network" you'll need to catagorise this to public/home/work or a custom security group before it'll let you access the net and other PCs through it.
 
I assume as your posting this you can use the internet from another machine PC connected to your network.

In internet explorer make sure that your "connection Tab" and LAN settings are set to default.

I suggest to turn off Windows Firewall as well.
 
I paste some info I wrote for someone else on a diff thread:

go start> run> cmd (enter)

on dos screen go ipconfig /all

you should see something like that:


H:\>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : XXXXX
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-XX-XX-XX-XX-E1
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.5
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.224.0.1
10.224.80.1

THEN DO

ping 192.168.1.1 (this is the router, you already done that so you can miss this)

try

ping www.google.co.uk

and

ping 64.223.183.99


tell us what the outcome was

try reading tho other thread maybe youll find something usefull

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17958510

regards
 
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sometimes mine decides that it's 'local' only, everything on the local segment works, but everything 'off-net' doesn't.

you have to delete the 'local route' via the command line and then it all starts working again (that's what I found anyway as I couldn't force it otherwise - saying public, home or office didn't make a difference...)

Can you open up a command prompt then type
route print

then paste the output here, I can create the command string for you to use

Kev
 
woop! Its working. Im not honestly sure how it started working, I did ipconfig /renew wireless* and found there was a DHCP conflict or something so i sorted it out, then I made the TCP/IPv4 protocol have specific settings. It was through that that I also found there was an IP conflict (my wii, when it gets turned on, it has an assigned IP address the same as my computer (blame my bro :p ) ). Thanks for the help everyone. So far it is working, its pretty slow, though its working :p
 
Most routers have a setting in them to assign IP addresses in the DHCP pool to a specified device, this will stop you getting IP conflicts like this in future.
 
Even though DHCP is an awesome kit as you understand more networking statically assigne each device (if you can) to an reserved IP address. Not only will this resolve port forwarding headachs but also stop the above reoccuring,
 
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