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Getting disconnected from NT network

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by b-frazzled

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I have several workstations ( Windows 95 ) that occasionally "loose" connection to the NT network. I am using TCP/IP allowing each workstation to receive an IP address from the DHCP server. I have PDC and a BDC NT Servers, I have disabled each workstation's ability to become Windows Browse Master and have set LM Announce to Yes.

But randomly the workstations will loose connection to the network. Can someone help ?

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by briannarivas

I would suggest checking the Nic Card when this happens. Check to see if you have a Link light on the back of the NIC card when you see that the workstation looses connection. If you do not see a link light (normally Green) you may have a bad cable. Try a new cable to see what happens. If you do have a Link light on the Nic, the next suggestion is to replace the Network card with a known good network card and see if that fixes your problem. My last suggestion if it's not a hardware problemis to run Winipcfg and release and renew the IP Address for the problem workstations. Sometimes the workstion will not release the IP address and have conflicting IP addresses when onother comes on with the same IP address. I hope this helps

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