>At 06:07 PM 11/25/97 -0600, you wrote:
>>>Packard Bell running Windows 95. It is dialing into my PM2E-10 connects
>>>fine but doesn't resolve DNS...
>>I'm working on just such a problem. Packet traces reveal that the
>>Packard Hell is insisting on using netbios-ns to try and resolve names
>>(even though it has two valid nameservers according to winipcfg).
>>We are having the customer bring in the computer to try re-installing
>>off the CD to try and fix it, as just removing TCP/IP and putting it
>>back from the CAB files doesn't seem to be working.
>Check for a file "win.com" in the windows directory. The presence of this
>file seems to screw up DNS. Rename the file if it's there.
erm - not quite. The kb article in question says check for a win.com file
in the ROOT directory - c:\, d:\ ... if you rename the win.com file in the
WINDOWS directory, that's a good way to make sure Windows doesn't boot ;)
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q162/8/11.asp
Regards,
Saliya
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