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Author
20 Mar 2005 4:23 PM
RG
I just ordered Rogers high speed internet.  The motorola modem is plugged
into the ethernet card, however, I am unable to surf the internet.  I get
CANNOT FIND SERVER OR DNS ERROR.  What could be the problem?? 
I have Win98SE operating system on the other partition.  The internet
connection works fine with Win98SE.  I have problem only with Win2000
professional.  I even tried log in as Administrator.  Still can't surf the
internet.  Appreciate your help.

Thanks / RG

Author
20 Mar 2005 6:56 PM
Dave Patrick
From a command prompt;
ipconfig /all
and compare with what your ISP thinks you should have.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"RG" wrote:
|I just ordered Rogers high speed internet.  The motorola modem is plugged
| into the ethernet card, however, I am unable to surf the internet.  I get
| CANNOT FIND SERVER OR DNS ERROR.  What could be the problem??
| I have Win98SE operating system on the other partition.  The internet
| connection works fine with Win98SE.  I have problem only with Win2000
| professional.  I even tried log in as Administrator.  Still can't surf the
| internet.  Appreciate your help.
|
| Thanks / RG
Author
20 Mar 2005 7:55 PM
RG
I checked ipconfig/all output with Win98Se & Win2000 Pro.  They match entry
to entry against each other, yet, I am  unable to connect to internet.  Still
cannot find server or dns error.  What could be the problem??

RG

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"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> From a command prompt;
> ipconfig /all
> and compare with what your ISP thinks you should have.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
> "RG" wrote:
> |I just ordered Rogers high speed internet.  The motorola modem is plugged
> | into the ethernet card, however, I am unable to surf the internet.  I get
> | CANNOT FIND SERVER OR DNS ERROR.  What could be the problem??
> | I have Win98SE operating system on the other partition.  The internet
> | connection works fine with Win98SE.  I have problem only with Win2000
> | professional.  I even tried log in as Administrator.  Still can't surf the
> | internet.  Appreciate your help.
> |
> | Thanks / RG
>
>
>
Author
20 Mar 2005 9:33 PM
Dave Patrick
These may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/265847/EN-US/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q241344

Be sure to apply these to your new install before connecting to any network.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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"RG" wrote:
|I checked ipconfig/all output with Win98Se & Win2000 Pro.  They match entry
| to entry against each other, yet, I am  unable to connect to internet.
Still
| cannot find server or dns error.  What could be the problem??
|
| RG
Author
20 Mar 2005 10:24 PM
William W. Plummer
RG wrote:

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> I checked ipconfig/all output with Win98Se & Win2000 Pro.  They match entry
> to entry against each other, yet, I am  unable to connect to internet.  Still
> cannot find server or dns error.  What could be the problem??
>
> RG
>
> "Dave Patrick" wrote:
>
>
>>From a command prompt;
>>ipconfig /all
>>and compare with what your ISP thinks you should have.
>>
>>--
>>Regards,
>>
>>Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
>>Microsoft Certified Professional
>>Microsoft MVP [Windows]
>>http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>>
>>"RG" wrote:
>>|I just ordered Rogers high speed internet.  The motorola modem is plugged
>>| into the ethernet card, however, I am unable to surf the internet.  I get
>>| CANNOT FIND SERVER OR DNS ERROR.  What could be the problem??
>>| I have Win98SE operating system on the other partition.  The internet
>>| connection works fine with Win98SE.  I have problem only with Win2000
>>| professional.  I even tried log in as Administrator.  Still can't surf the
>>| internet.  Appreciate your help.

My guess is that you are not connected to the internet at all.
Something is wrong, maybe your modem is not configured properly, maybe
the dial-up connection is suffering too many errrors, etc.   The DNS
errors are just a reflection of the underlying net connection not
working right.
Author
21 Mar 2005 4:29 AM
alan
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"William W. Plummer" wrote:

> RG wrote:
>
> > I checked ipconfig/all output with Win98Se & Win2000 Pro.  They match entry
> > to entry against each other, yet, I am  unable to connect to internet.  Still
> > cannot find server or dns error.  What could be the problem??
> >
> > RG
> >
> > "Dave Patrick" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>From a command prompt;
> >>ipconfig /all
> >>and compare with what your ISP thinks you should have.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> >>Microsoft Certified Professional
> >>Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> >>http://www.microsoft.com/protect
> >>
> >>"RG" wrote:
> >>|I just ordered Rogers high speed internet.  The motorola modem is plugged
> >>| into the ethernet card, however, I am unable to surf the internet.  I get
> >>| CANNOT FIND SERVER OR DNS ERROR.  What could be the problem??
> >>| I have Win98SE operating system on the other partition.  The internet
> >>| connection works fine with Win98SE.  I have problem only with Win2000
> >>| professional.  I even tried log in as Administrator.  Still can't surf the
> >>| internet.  Appreciate your help.
>
> My guess is that you are not connected to the internet at all.
> Something is wrong, maybe your modem is not configured properly, maybe
> the dial-up connection is suffering too many errrors, etc.   The DNS
> errors are just a reflection of the underlying net connection not
> working right.
>