The amazing disappearing network

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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: The amazing disappearing network
Date: 00:23 on 23 Mar 2005
Windows networking, at home, between two machines, with Workgroups. 

(All you *nix-at-home people are giggling and pointing at me already,
but I shall continue nonetheless. Ubuntu is SO going on this machine
as soon as I clear a drive for it, and as soon as their graphics card
detection improves. You wouldn't have thought that spotting a vanilla
Nvidia 5200 would be so hard, but apparently it is.)

I'm not going to get heavily into Workgroups here, because the pain is
just too hideous - random shit not working for no reason, the hideous
slowness of SMB, confusion between the credentials you use on your own
machine and on a server, etc. etc. Yes, using Domains solves much of
this, but I don't have a permanently-on machine at home to use as a
PDC.

But this is the case where the network suddenly *disappears* - as in
the Network Neighbourhood (sorry, "My Network Places") suddenly CLEARS
OUT and there's nothing there, and then I reboot, and then "My Network
Places" is GONE from the fucking start menu and Windows is going,
"Network? Huh? Sorry mate, never saw nuffink. You must've dreamt it."

... and it turns out that it's all because ZoneAFuckingLarm on the
*other* machine has suddenly, for NO FUCKING REASON, decided to switch
the local subnet from "Trusted" to "Internet". So all the SMB traffic
is hitting a wall on both sides, and it all disappears.

Meh.

-- Yoz

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