How is your IP Address assigned to the laptop at home and how is the IP
Address assigned at work? It would be easiest for you if both locations had
dhcp and you could define the router, mask and address as well as dns
services.
If you were to use dhcp at both locations when you switched you could simply
pull up a command prompt and do:
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
This will get you your locations assigned settings.
As far as not being able to ping 127.0.0.1, that is odd. As far as I know
you should always be able to ping that, it is your local machine and it
doesn't need to route anything.
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Paul Bergson
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"Simon O'Hara [binky]" <s.ohara[ at ]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:670DF1D0-CE7D-40C8-A00C-FBF997859C33[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > Hello,
>
> I got a problem with my Vista laptop and working at home with it. It's
> attached to my works active directory domain and works correctly while
> there. As soon I bring it home and attach it to my home network Explorer
> hangs constantly, cannot ping 127.0.0.1 from a command prompt. Basically
> the laptop is unusable. Now I know this a DNS resolving problem as a)
> disconnecting the laptop from the network brings the laptop back to life
> b) Removing the primary DNS suffix from the laptops settings has the same
> effect.
>
> I've gone as far a removing the laptop from the domain which of course
> makes everything right again as there's no primary DNS suffix set.
>
> So I know the cause of the problem, what I don't know is how to start
> looking to fix it.
>
> Regards
>
> Simon
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