A long while back I had a similar problem with a machine that used NetBEUI
as the protocol for the local network as well as TCP/IP for internet
connections.  The internet connection to our router continued to work
correctly, but all connections within the NetBEUI local network stopped
working.  After days of troubleshooting, it turned out to be a bad network
adapter card.

Roger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Herbert Graf" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, 16 December 2000 21:59
Subject: [PCBUILD] Problem with NetBEUI


>      I restarted my machine today and all of a sudden it stopped booting
> properly. It would go through all the booting normally and then stop right
> before displaying the wallpaper (the start button and everything else is
> there). The only way to restart is to hit reset (CTRL-ALT-DELETE works
once
> and then never again). I did notice however that when it was in this
halted
> condition the networks cards in the machine would have outgoing activity.
> After some safe mode rebooting I noticed that only adapters with NetBEUI
> bound to it with Client for Microsoft Networks bound to NetBEUI were doing
> this. After some more restarts I found that by removing this binding the
> machine would boot normally. This is great, except now I don't have access
> to any of my servers! Has anybody ever heard of this problem? I have tried
> numerous things (changing browse master settings, trying different
bindings)
> but nothing seems to work. I have bound Client for Microsoft Networks to
> TCP/IP but then I can't browse the network at all! (I have run into that
> problem before, for some reason this machine refuses to access windows
> drives over TCP/IP, only NetBEUI works) I'd appreciate any suggestions
(save
> reinstalling windows, that is not an option at the moment). BTW the OS is
> Win95B OSR2, I forgot to include that in my original post. Sorry about
that.
> TTYL
>
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