network place's freeze up's

[Bill]

Hi

I am running Windows Me and Wingate 5.2 after a upgrade From a computer that had Windows 98 and Wingate 5.07. My home network consist of 2 clients and my wingate server. One Client runs windows me and the other is a dell laptop with windows xp. I installed wingate as before and and made no changes to it's default configuration. It is using NAT and everything is working great as far as the internet goes on all p.c.'s . The client PC's NIC's have obtain a internet address automatically selected. The Problem is that while browsing network place's on wingate server and primarilly the second harddrive in the winme pc the server freeze's , not the whole pc just the window, i can usually CTR/ALT/DEL out of it but then it close's the gatekeeer . Some things i have noticed are when the winXP laptop is online wingate shows it in gatekeeper as the computer name , when the winME machine is online is shows it as a ip address usually 192.168.0.4 . I want to keep the nat/ens portion of but i need to be able to browse the network through network places also and i to transfer files between the machines with it freezing up also . well thanks for looking at this and i look forward to working this out with your help :)
Bill

[neil]

So you only get the freeze when you browse Network Neighbourhood? What if you use the Run option off the Start menu? ie in the run box type \\mycomputername? Also what happens if you try browsing by IP, so again type \\192.168.0.4 or which ever machines IP you wish to browse? Does it still freeze? Does this happen everytime?

Regards

Neil

[Bill]

Yes it is true that it would only freeze while browsing through network neighborhood and yes it would eventually freeze everytime , either going through the files or coming back out by hitting the back button in explorer also if you would play a mp3 through the network which i was always able to do before . I tried typing in the ip address(192.168.0.4) in run command and it did not freeze at all, I then tried by computer name and after probally a minute delay it finally came up and seemed to run ok. so i tried network place's again and definately froze again ,,, what do you think?

[Pascal]

tried by computer name and after probally a minute delay it finally came up and seemed to run ok. so i tried network place's again and definately froze again ,,, what do you think?

If you do not have WinGate running, do you also get the freeze ?

[Bill]

Pascal

I shut down wingate and gatekeeper and it does seem to freeze but i did not change the client computer to a static ip address so i assume the address was still the one wingate assigned

[Pascal]

I shut down wingate and gatekeeper and it does seem to freeze but i did not change the client computer to a static ip address so i assume the address was still the one wingate assigned

Hmm. The static IP vs DHCP assigned IP should not make a difference, until it expires. That sounds suspiciously like some more general networking problem - but I'm assuming you did not have this problem before you installed WinGate ?

There are a few things you can check:

1. Update the drivers for all the network cards (People experiencing similar problems have had success with this)

2. Check the server's LAN network card's properties to ensure that only the necessary protocols, etc. are bound to it.

3. Do a thorough check on the server itself, things like scanning the disk, checking for surface faults, etc. It could simply be a case of Windows getting it's knickers in a twist because of a corrupt file, etc.

[Bill]

Thanks Pascal

After reading your last reply i totally uninstalled wingate and my internal NIC and changed the the client NIC to static ip 192.168.0.2 and gave it a try and at first it seemed ok but the longer i ran it the more sluggish it got till it would finally stall ,, but if i waited long enough it would come back ,,, so anyway i am going to try some different things and see what i can make of it. I do appreciate your's and neil's time i'll post back when i figure it out :)

[Pascal]

and see what i can make of it. I do appreciate your's and neil's time i'll post back when i figure it out :)

Last thought - try microsoft's search ...

http://search.microsoft.com/search/resu ... down&na=30

A lot seems to be related to "find fast" of Office, etc. Might be helpful, might not be :)