[CS-FSLUG] Windows 7 conectability issues.

[davidm at hisfeet.net]

Yeah, Well I guess Linux ix only human too,:)  About your dad - I would
really like to see him, but if he is going to be in Cu8liacan we might not
connect.  Ella and I are actually in Northern Sonora Just west of Caborca.

Yours, David M



> Well, of course, on a Linux list we all like to nod our head and
> smile at people's Windows issues.  Especially when they are someone
> else's problems.
>
> For what it's worth, my wife's XP box was not getting an IP from my
> home network.  Yup.  Gotta be XP.  Oops.  Turned out my Linux server
> was out of disk-space and could not update the DHCP leases file.
> (drat.  It was a Linux issue, not an XP one.)
>
>      - Tim
>
> On 2/1/2013 6:54 PM, davidm at hisfeet.net wrote:
>>
>> You guys are awesome!  I post questionms on other forums, and seldom get
>> any reply at all. So Thanks from the bottom of my heart.  to all who
>> replied. Since the computer isn't mine, it has gone 'home', but I'll
>> check
>> out your answers as soon as I get it back.
>>
>> DavidM
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> One "standard" wireless thing I have seen is to disable the wireless
>>> adapter and re-enable it.  I have seen many Windows 7 wireless
>>> adapters that are fixed with this one.
>>>
>>> I would second the "disable IPv6" comment.  Windows 7 prefers IPv6
>>> where it thinks it can get away with it.
>>>
>>> If that fails, I would try disabling the windows (or antivirus)
>>> firewall temporarily to see if that is the issue.
>>>
>>> If that fails, download a copy of wireshark (either by using a wired
>>> connection or on a different computer and transferring it over).
>>> Wireshark is like tcpdump on Linux.  Connect via wireless, run
>>> wireshark doing a "capture" and do a number of DNS queries.  You can
>>> probably use one of these filters:
>>>     udp.port==53
>>>     tcp.port==53
>>>     ip.host=[his IP address here]
>>>
>>> For example, if his IP is 192.168.0.23
>>>     ip.host=192.168.0.23
>>>
>>> Most DNS uses udp, but some uses tcp.  If you find that it is using
>>> tcp instead of UDP, that will tell us something.  If you do not see
>>> anything going out, that will tell us something.  If you see it going
>>> out on UDP, but nothing coming back (if it goes from his IP out, but
>>> we do not see any responses from the name-server) that tells us
>>> something.  Also, look at the IP address of the name-server to make
>>> sure it is actually using the name-server you expect it to be using.
>>>
>>>       - Tim
>>>
>>> Ps. I assume you will be seeing my dad down there in Mexico in a few
>>> days.  If so, greet him for me.  I will be down in Mitla, Oaxaca from
>>> Sun - Fri teaching Linux security to some folks.  Looking forward to
>>> a brief visit to Mexico.  It has been a number of years.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/1/2013 11:15 AM, davidm at hisfeet.net wrote:
>>>> We are now in Mexico connected to the TELMEX system, which is the
>>>> landline
>>>> 'almost monopoly' system. Got everything in our house working just
>>>> fine,
>>>> even my wifes winxp laptop on wifi.  But the pastor here has a win7
>>>> laptop.  Strange (to me ) thing.
>>>>
>>>> It connects by wifi to the modem, nd can png the modem, and other
>>>> computers (ours) connected to the modem either by cable, or wifi. It
>>>> can
>>>> even ping internet sites by ip number, but not by name.  Will even
>>>> show
>>>> some of the sites when I put the ip number in the URL line of the
>>>> browser.
>>>> It seems that it won't connect to any Name Server.
>>>>
>>>> I managed to change the DNS settings in the win7 machine, but still
>>>> won't
>>>> connect to any wan by name. I also changed the DNS in the modem, but
>>>> no
>>>> change.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas what could keep it from connecting?  Oh, by the way, t works
>>>> fine when connected by cable to the modem.
>>>>
>>>> DavidM
>>>>
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