Cant communicate

WrCombs

@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.

WrCombs

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.. .

scottalanmiller

@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

jmoore

@wrcombs hopefully someone just being onsite will provide enough clues to see what is happening. sometimes that's just the way it is.

WrCombs

Apparently re-imaging the PC fixed the issue...

jmoore

@wrcombs dang so onsite person gave up. must have baffled him too

WrCombs

@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.
I thought it was a little redundant but oh well.

jmoore

@wrcombs yeah, glad its working for you now at least

dafyre

Glad you got it, but my money is on a b0rk3d windows update that broke it.

WrCombs

@dafyre said in Cant communicate:

Glad you got it, but my money is on a b0rk3d windows update that broke it.

More than likely..

Obsolesce

@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.

WrCombs

@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?

jmoore

@wrcombs Yep

scottalanmiller

@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.