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On 21/06/10 14:36, Julian Hall wrote:
You'd be surprised what it can screw up! Theres something wierd about the way MS does sockets - I've known an SqlServer box malfunction when a separate IE Proxy box went on the blink! Reboot the proxy and everything worked again - MS denied it was happening but it was 100% replicable.On 21/06/2010 07:52, Rob Beard wrote:On 20/06/10 21:09, Grant Sewell wrote:Hi all, Sorry for the Windows question on a Linux list, but I figure someone here may be able to point out the obvious to me - I've been racking my brains over this for several hours now. On my Mum's XP PC she can't load up *any* webpages nor will most applications actually make a successful outgoing connection. I have installed LogMeIn onto it so I can remotely help her. She has Skype installed. Both of these run at startup. Both of these are working absolutely fine.<snip>From Mum's XP machine:Connecting To smtp.googlemail.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 25: Connect failedtelnet smtp.googlemail.com 25(Also, all webbrowsers fail to connect to anything on the WAN side). Any thoughts? Grant.Um... is there any proxy server set on Internet Explorer?Has she got a firewall (either the built in Windows Firewall or another 3rd party firewall) running?RobAn IE proxy wouldn't affect email though would it?
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Julian
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