Re: PC Networking Problem

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you sure Windows firewall is off?  As in did somebody turn it on while
you weren't looking?  Since it doesn't work in the other machine, that leads
me to believe it is software.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:47 AM
> To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
> Subject: [PCTECH] PC Networking Problem
>
> Hi Folks,
>
>
>
> Have a strange on here. Have an HP Evo desktop running Windows XP and it
> decided to stop connecting to the internet, the iSeries, etc. I first
> suspected a NIC, cable or switch port problem but those all checked out
> OK.
> I can ping the iSeries but when I try to telnet it quickly gets an error
> about "could not open connection on port 23". A browser gets an error page
> and out Synapse emulation gets at error also. Firewall is off.
>
> The NIC card shows connected and working fine.
>
>
>
> So I pulled the drive out and stuck it in a same model Evo that was
> connecting fine and guess what ? Now it is getting the same errors. I
> removed the NIC from configuration and rebooted and it added it back in.
> I've tried disabling it and re-enabling it - nothing works.
>
>
>
> Any idea what could be going on ? It's got to be something in the
> configuration since moving the drive moved the error.
>
>
>
> Thanks !
>
>
>
> Chuck
>
>
>
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