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Networking w/ a Dell Laptop?

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I set up a 20 user LAN network with dsl. 1 user has a fairly new Dell laptop running W98. The strange part is that the unit is setup to see & share with everyone on the network, no prob.
But for some reason unable to get internet access.
I have changed & confirmed all the settings to match the other systems on the network that have internet access. Still get that funny error message when trying to open a web site, "C system error try reloading the page ect."
Any ideas on what to try?
any help would be great
thanks

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by dipnesh

Hi JeffryG

JeffryG if you can tell what you had tried that will good for us so that we can go for good step.Have u tried with Internet explorer reinstallation,upgradation,or tried with other internet application such as Netscape Navigator,Eudora,if yes,.Then i m sure it is problem with Operating system try with reinstallation,if not take a backup of data & format reload with everything.

by steed

Are you going through a proxy? Can you ping it from the laptop? If you can, have you edited the host file?
Does the person use dialup on this laptop when out of the office? If so, make sure "dial whenever a network connection is not present" is enbled otherwise enable "never dial a connection". Give me some details and we can solve this.

by jeffryg

I adjusted all of explorer's setting twice, no success. I ran threw the Inet conn wiz so many times. It does have AOL installed but I have been able to avoid any issues like this on the other workstations. Plus it has complete network access, so themethod in which I want to connect is correct.
thanks

by erikbutler

a little bit more info is need. Are you running client server or peer to peer.and if you are connecting through a server what OS is on the server.

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