DUN/WinSock on Win32 (was: Meeting and Mozilla)

[John Seth]

Win98 & WinME are notorious for Network Problems.  I went from Win98 to
Win2000 Pro.  I bought ME, but used it for a short stint of 3 months
before my system became unusable.

I'm a webmaster/asst sysadmin (and ex tech support nut) for a local ISP,
and I've had my share of WinSock problems.

If you encounter that problem again, don't try and uncompress files and
use DOS or Linux (though I prefer linux, to M$).  Go into your Control
Panel, go into your Network settings, and remove everything.  Especially
any TCP/IP, NetBIOS/NetBEUI, DUN Adapters, etc.  If you're on a
company network and you're not the MIS/IT guy, I'd double check with them,
as reinstalling will require driver disks, etc.  Don't just remove TCP/IP,
it won't work, and as for ME, you have to remove DUN, and everything.

Restart/reboot, and then reinstall everything.  If you've removed TCP/IP
and any DUN/ethernet adapters etc, then it *should* have removed WinSock
files. Reinstalling should reinstall TCP/IP and WinSock.  If not, then
yah, its a registry thing and you'll have to wipe that.  IMHO, if you need
to alter Windows' registry by hand, and it's not just for the simple
pleasure of renaming "system icons" and such, then you should
re-fdisk/re-format and start over.

I've got a WinXP Pro w/ Slackware 8.1 dual-boot, and it works like a
charm.  Then again, I can actively switch between GNU Cash and Quicken
2002.  I don't use M$ products if I don't have to.  If your bank supports
Quicken (M&T Bank does), I'd try it.  It does take some time to adjust,
between M$ and Intuit's Quicken, but I will never use anything other than
Quicken (again, with the exception of GNU Cash which can use Quicken
files).

Just my tech cents... (they're not worth much depending on where you go).

  - Tony


On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Joe Bielli wrote:

> A very formidable problem to resolve! I had the same issue before, it
> was mind boggling how I couldn't get anything to resolve. I wound up
> doing the very same thing as you, but since the computer was running
> Windows ME (eeeek!) ..reinstalling DUN didn't work, I had to re-extract
> most files from the CD and do the exact same thing as you. Microsoft has
> the issue outlined in their KB, but under a different premise. Of course
> its never as easy as describing the problem exactly as it is happening
> with MS.
>
> Screw it! And to heck with the new X-Box they are releasing (to thwart
> 'chippers).
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
>  To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: RE: Meeting and Mozilla
>
>
> I finally reinstalled the OS and that got me back to a working state but
> then I
> could get NO network resources (aplications) to work, but I could ping
> by IP #!
>
> ARRRGH
>
> I finally found the answer in google, I had to delete a Winsock2
> registry key,
> uninstall and reinstall DUN and then network sockets could be created.
> THe
>
>