Re: Urgent network help needed

2013-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rick Stevens wrote: On 07/08/2013 02:00 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive: I am away from home. My wife at home cannot access the internet with her laptop. I suspect the problem is in the home server I am responsible for. In brief, the internet can be accessed from the CentOS-6.4 server. H

Re: Urgent network help needed

2013-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Timothy Murphy wrote: I am away from home. My wife at home cannot access the internet with her laptop. I suspect the problem is in the home server I am responsible for. In brief, the internet can be accessed from the CentOS-6.4 server. Her laptop accesses a WiFi router which is connected to the

RE: Urgent network help needed

2013-07-09 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:33 AM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Urgent network help needed Rick Stevens wrote: > Step 2: Reb

Re: Urgent network help needed

2013-07-09 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rick Stevens wrote: > Step 2: Reboot her laptop. Not a warm boot (ctrl-alt-del), but > a full-tilt cold boot from power off. You say she uses a VPN to contact > work, and it's often that the VPN clients leave crumbs in Windows' > routing and DNS lookup tables. That did the trick, thank you very m

Re: Urgent network help needed

2013-07-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/08/2013 02:35 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I guess I could ring my ISP (Eircom) and try not to mention Linux ... That shouldn't be an issue. After all, the machine in question runs XP, not Linux. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: Urgent network help needed

2013-07-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Joe Zeff wrote: >> I'm not sure what tests I can run to diagnose the problem. >> Any suggestions very gratefully received. >> They may save a marriage ... Thanks for your response. > What browser/version is she using? She was using Internet Explorer, but she also has Firefox > Have you had her

Re: Urgent network help needed

2013-07-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rick Stevens wrote: > On 07/08/2013 02:00 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive: >> I am away from home. >> My wife at home cannot access the internet with her laptop. >> I suspect the problem is in the home server I am responsible for. >> >> In brief, the internet can be accessed from the CentOS

Re: Urgent network help needed

2013-07-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/08/2013 02:00 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive: I am away from home. My wife at home cannot access the internet with her laptop. I suspect the problem is in the home server I am responsible for. In brief, the internet can be accessed from the CentOS-6.4 server. Her laptop accesses a

Re: Urgent network help needed

2013-07-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/08/2013 02:00 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm not sure what tests I can run to diagnose the problem. Any suggestions very gratefully received. They may save a marriage ... What browser/version is she using? Have you had her open up a terminal (Sorry, it's been too long since I last used W

Urgent network help needed

2013-07-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
I am away from home. My wife at home cannot access the internet with her laptop. I suspect the problem is in the home server I am responsible for. In brief, the internet can be accessed from the CentOS-6.4 server. Her laptop accesses a WiFi router which is connected to the server. I have to confes