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by garyj.rice

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I running a school network consisting of 50 pc's running 95+98 in a W2K AD domain, on one single subnet. Almost at random clients report "password wrong or no server available" when attempting to log on. Repeated attempts, on the same machine, oftenresult in successful login. This occurs even when there is minimal network traffic. I suspect its hardware but not sure. Any ideas greatly appreciated

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by gipsyblade

I saw this happen many times in my old network when we ran 95/98 on our workstations(mostly laptops). Now I don't know if this relates to your situation, but this happened everytime somebody would disconnect their cable, or the connection got lost somehow(someone turning off their hub was the most common). Some Win98SE machines would be able to log on after several attemppts, but 95 and 98 machines would have to be restarted in order to "re-establish" the connections. I know it was a pain to dothis, and that's one of the reasons we migrated to 2000 a long time ago.
Hope this helps you, good luck.

by svrarvind

This is a Common Problem We were facing.Please Check your Server LanCable and see that it is Properly inserted.Some times it would have not been plugged properly or someone might have plugged a different cable instead of the Lan Cable.

There is no hardware problem.Sometimes restarting the Server might set it up right.(Another Option).Also please check your workstation lan cables.

Hope this helps you or please kindly get back to me and let me know and I will try debugging it here and get back to you as soon as possible.

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