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cadmaster
05-07-2002, 07:55 AM
I have a small peer-to-peer network using a 5-port hub. My main machine is an Athlon 1GHz running Win2000Pro, the others are a Pentium II (Win2000Pro), a 486 (Win 3.11) and an HP JetDirect serving an HP2000 inkjet (I have two Suns I want to add but that's another story).
I used to have ZoneAlarmPro 2.6 which worked fine but since running the upgrade to ZoneAlarmPro 3 on the Athlon I have lost the network connection icon in the system tray and the Network & Dial-up Connections dialog from Control Panel is blank (it is present on the Pentium showing Local Area Connection and Make New Connection).
I have completely removed ZoneAlarmPro (including deleting all references in the Registry), reinstalled IE6 and run the repair option from the Win2000 CD but still no icon and a blank dialog.
Windows Explorer shows the network and I can access the other machines, transfer files etc. but when the internet connection (ISDN) is dropped (after a period of inactivity or ISP timeout) IE6 and MS Outlook do not redial, ie they do not know the connection has been lost and I cannot right-click the icon and pick disconnect to force them to do so as I could before.
The 'Show icon in Task Bar when connected' box is checked (I have unchecked and rechecked it) for the Internet connection - I cannot tell for the LAN as the dialog is blank.
Can I restore the icon and dialog contents without re-installing Win2000?

BipolarBill
05-07-2002, 11:58 AM
Take a look at this thread:

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104887&highlight=connection+icon+tray

You may want to contact the original "customer" to see how he resolved it. Either "PM" him or use his profile to e-mail him.

Good luck.

cadmaster
05-13-2002, 10:54 AM
Only solution seems to be to reinstall Win2000. Now my HP JetDirect 300X doesn't appear!

BipolarBill
05-13-2002, 11:41 AM
I'm not terribly familiar with print servers.

Here's the support page:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Resource.jsp?locale=en_US&taskId=8418&prodSeriesId=27316&prodTypeId=13037&prodSeriesName=hp+jetdirect+300x+officeconnect+pri nt+server&taskName=setup%2C+install+%26+configure

You may add the port for it in printer properties and select that port before anything else. Ping it too.