Re: [SLE] win laptop

On Sunday 08 September 2002 15:10, Landy Roman wrote:

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 19:23:04 +0100 Richard Fletcher wrote:

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On Sunday 08 September 2002 1:41 pm, Landy Roman wrote:

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my wife has a windows laptop that was accessing the net fine thru my linux box.. suddenly it stoped doing that... i can ping the machaine from my linux box but the laptop will not access the net,,,,

any idea what shoul i look for

firewall is as always has been

Doh, I thought I might be able to win a laptop!

i can even ping the world from the lap but no Internet this is strange

If you can ping but not connect using browser, usually means you have lost the DNS so: check your win settings to see that she has a DNS set. in TCP/IP properties, DNS configuration, Enable DNS, insert host name, Domain, and DNSServersearch order, then click add.