Networking Issues

Hello, Good Morning!

Okay. So early yesterday morning I decided to check my router's manufacturer website for upgrades. (Bad idea )

I installed the one available. Now the other computer on the network cannot connect to the internet. It says that a connect is established, and excellent yet you can't access the interent. Both computers are running XP SP2, and the router is a Linksys Wireless-G 2.4GHz with a cable modem.

After hours of reconfiguring over-and-over I uninstalled the router, and deleted the upgrade then rebooted. The wireless computer still can't connect to the internet, but the connection is there.

I have totally ran out of ideas. Except that I did notice that my Routing and Remote Access Service won't start. It gives the error code 340, but that code doesn't match Microsoft's KB.

This seems completely ridiculous because I've done this so many times, and have never had this problem. Any ideas?

Both computers have eTrust Antivirus, Spybot S&D, Adaware SE, Ewido, CWShredder, Windows Defender, DSOStop2, and SpywareBlaster.

Thanks in advance!
K

 

Hi Major Attitude, and good morning. Thank you for the quick reply.

Yes I deleted the upgrade because I didn't have any problems until the upgrade. I have reset the router about 5+ times now.

I'm going to post information from the event viewer in a few minutes.

Thank you for any additional ideas!

 

The wireless computer has the following 2 errors in the event viewer.
1. Source: Browser Event ID 8032
The browser service has failed to retrieve the backup list too many times on transport \Device\NwlnkNb. The backup browser is stopping.

2. Source: Browser Event ID 8021
The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers from the browser maser \\MyComputerName on the network \Device\NwlnNb.

My Computer has the following errors in the event viewer.
1. Source: DCOM Event ID 10024
The machine wide group policy Access Limits security descriptor is
invalid. The security descriptor is defined as an invalid Security
Descriptor Definitions Language (SDDL) string. The requested action was
therefore not performed. Please contact your administrator to get the security descriptor corrected in the Group Policy settings.

2. Source: Service Control Manager Event ID 7024
The Routing and Remote Access service terminated with service-specific
error 340 (0x154).

3. Source: Dhcp Event ID 1007
Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the
Network Card with network address XXXXX... . The IP address being
used is XXX... . (The IP address being used is wrong)

4. Source: Tcpip Event ID 4199
The system detected an address conflict for IP address XXX...
with the system having network hardware address XXX... . Network operations on this system may be disrupted as a result. (This is odd because the IP address is the Network address, which is configured by the router)

I'm still working on reading up on this stuff so any help would be awesome. Thanks again.

 

I found the solution!! (A strange solution) It was one of the following. (Not sure which one because I did them back-to-back).

1. On my computer (host comp) I ran ipconfig /release then ran ipconfig /renew.

2. On my computer I ran the Esentutl.exe repair tool for security\database\secedit.sdb...backed up...then rebooted.

So either I needed the ipconfig /release /renew, or a security database repair. Maybe this will help someone someday. Thanks again for your help Major Attitude.