Windows PC's Intermittant Network faults.

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Published on 2011-01-17T15:26:41Z Indexed on 2011/01/17 15:55 UTC
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Hello everyone, im running into some issues with our client PC's (windows xp sp3 systems).

this morning we ran into some problems with PC's not connecting to internal / external systems intermittantly. this would manifest as a problem connecting to any service, email, web, backoffice database systems etc.

given a random amount of time be it a few minutes etc the problem would disapear and the pc would carry on as normal, some systems however have not been able to connect to certain sytems since the problem initally happened.

im hoping for some suggestions / network diag advice really to help me locate the cause of this problem.

all the clients are windows xp, connecting to a domain controller that is windows 2003 std this server also acts as a DNS server for us. we also have websense 7.0.1 installed on it to filter traffic.

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