Solved Cant communicate
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@scotth said in Cant communicate:
I scanned this thread quickly.
Same workgroup?yes
Joined domain?
yes
Same activated account in backoffice? Same level of security?
same account,
Did something switch to the Public Network in Network & Sharing Center?
These settings did not get changed
I believe I saw earlier about the firewall needing to be enabled for 445 to work. That's true AFAIR.
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Site is currently unreachable on my end. Hoping the onsite guy can figure it out enough to get it back on line.. we shall see.. .
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@wrcombs said in Cant communicate:
Site is currently unreachable on my end. Hoping the onsite guy can figure it out enough to get it back on line.. we shall see.. .
Maybe that is the issue
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@wrcombs hopefully someone just being onsite will provide enough clues to see what is happening. sometimes that's just the way it is.
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Apparently re-imaging the PC fixed the issue...
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@wrcombs dang so onsite person gave up. must have baffled him too
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@jmoore said in Cant communicate:
@wrcombs dang so onsite person gave up. must have baffled him too
Yeah, He brought it back to the office and we re-imaged it this morning. now we have access to the folder needed for the terminals to update and run appropriately.
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@wrcombs yeah, glad its working for you now at least
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Glad you got it, but my money is on a b0rk3d windows update that broke it.
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@dafyre said in Cant communicate:
Glad you got it, but my money is on a b0rk3d windows update that broke it.
More than likely..
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@dafyre said in Cant communicate:
Glad you got it, but my money is on a b0rk3d windows update that broke it.
It's Windows XP... those don't get updates anymore.
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@obsolesce said in Cant communicate:
@dafyre said in Cant communicate:
Glad you got it, but my money is on a b0rk3d windows update that broke it.
It's Windows XP... those don't get updates anymore.
the back office was Windows 7. . . . Isnt windows 7 still receiving security updates?
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@wrcombs Yep
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@wrcombs said in Cant communicate:
@obsolesce said in Cant communicate:
@dafyre said in Cant communicate:
Glad you got it, but my money is on a b0rk3d windows update that broke it.
It's Windows XP... those don't get updates anymore.
the back office was Windows 7. . . . Isnt windows 7 still receiving security updates?
Yes, it's still widely deployed. But freaking ancient.
