On 06/02/2021 14:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Fredxx wrote:
On 06/02/2021 12:37, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
The PC which is part of this pair suddenly lost internet access. It is
cabled to the router. This old machine from the same hub, OK.
It was reaching the router OK, but no internet access. It's on a fixed IP
address. As a quick fix tried letting it sort itself out. Where of course
it changed to DCHP - but still not working. Claimed it couldn't find the
DNS server. Checks on drivers etc showed OK.

Seems Windows did an update a couple of days ago. Restored to before that
and everything works again.

It's a relatively new (and expensive) Gigabyte MB.

Open a Command Prompt and type "ipconfig /all" on both PCs and compare
the DNS Servers for both on the Ethernet adapter.

If you're using DHCP they should be the same. It is always possible that
the first PC has the DNS Server entry to some historical IP address and
not set through DHCP.

I've got everything on this LAN set to fixed IP. Have a list of what they
all are.

Ok The two important ones to look at are the gateway address and the DNS
server address.

Never had a problem with file sharing under the Win7 Homegroup system.

Total nightmare with Win10 - Google if you don't believe me.

I am aware of issues since they turned off SMB 1.0 by default. I had to
turn it back on again to see my NAS servers. After that it seems ok.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-a...bv1-windows-10

Microsoft removed this by default due to security issues.