Rick Stevens wrote: > On 07/08/2013 02:00 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive: >> I am away from home. >> My wife at home cannot access the internet with her laptop. >> I suspect the problem is in the home server I am responsible for. >> >> In brief, the internet can be accessed from the CentOS-6.4 server. >> Her laptop accesses a WiFi router which is connected to the server. >> I have to confess that she is the only household member >> running Windows - Windows XP in her case. >> Connect to=>Show All Connections shows the WiFi connection is good. >> But she cannot access the internet, or ping google, etc. >> >> I can get access and login to the server from far away. >> I see nothing wrong. >> I have restarted the network, dhcpd and shorewall services. >> I checked that forwarding is on. >> I can ping my wife's laptop from the server. >> >> Her setup has been working fine for months if not years, >> accessing her work over VPN. >> But now she is just trying to browse. >> >> I'm not sure what tests I can run to diagnose the problem. >> Any suggestions very gratefully received. >> They may save a marriage ... Thanks very much for your response. > Step 1: Reboot the WiFi router. It may have lunched its routing tables. > It happen We tried that. > Step 2: Reboot her laptop. Not a warm boot (ctrl-alt-del), but > a full-tilt cold boot from power off. You say she uses a VPN to contact > work, and it's often that the VPN clients leave crumbs in Windows' > routing and DNS lookup tables. I'll suggest that to her. Thanks Tim -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
