'Local Connection only' issue is nightmare when no internet exit e

I can see this covered a number of times but I always think the out coming if
because the machine and/or switch/router hasn’t been set up right.. BUT!

I am a network engineer. I know where I’m at when it comes to configuration
BUT I find Vista impossible to work with when the machine isn’t connected to
the internet in any capacity.

If I have to configure routers or SANs, basically anything that doesnt have
some kind of internet connection / exite, I can’t do it with the Vista laptop
because it just will not allow connection unless it can see the internet.
(cross over wired connections are impossible)

Put an XP machine in the same location and it works fine.

Just the other day I had a job to go around and upgrade the internet in a
chain of shops. Hooked the Vista laptop up to Cisco router to configure and
upload a config, couldn’t see it. Everything setup fine.

Put my XP laptop on and tftp’ed and telnet’ed without a problem.

I just can not work out what the problem is, it’s so annoying having to
carry around a 4 year old laptop when your super wizy vista machine can’t do
it.

Basically symptoms are ‘local access’ disabled in the sys tray and no access
what so every.

I had a customer yesterday who has laptops that are disabled via vlan /
switching to be to be allowed to have access to the internet, the users have
to login to a VDI server and access the internet via the terminal servers.
This again doesn’t work. They can ping the workstations but they can’t start
any kind of application session. Again, but a XP machine on with the same
settings, works first time.

ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET AROUND THIS NIGHTMARE?

Tim


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Tim Guy