Hi
I have a Toshiba Satellite 220CS laptop running Win98SE. I would like to connect it to my domain, but cannot do so.
I have inserted a PCMCIA cardbus 10/100 Fast Ethernet PC Card. The laptop recognises the card and the correct drivers are installed. Device manager shows the card to be working properly, and the card has no conflicts. I have installed TCP/IP and have configured the card with a static IP address, etc.
When I connect the laptop to the network (using CAT5 cable), none of the lights on the media coupler come on. It’s as though the device is dead. However, I added the laptop to the domain and created a networking setup disk using Small Business Server 2k SBS administrator consol, which creates a computer account and the disk configures the networking of the laptop. I thought, hey, if I can’t get it to connect to the network as I would with a PC, perhaps this program will configure the machine correctly. When I run the network setup program on the laptop I get the following error message:
‘This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on your computer. Please contact your system administrator’
I have no idea what these restrictions may be. No policies have been used which would restrict the usability of the machine. I thought it would be a simple process connecting the laptop to my network! Does anyone know what is happening here?
