[@md0Cer]

I have seen numerous corporate and school laptops have trouble connecting to wireless connections with SP2. Usually the network administrator fixed it, but this is a freind's computer and I can't figure out what to do or why it was "connected" to the wireless network but not able to get to the internet or anything. I finnally figured it out, the "connection specific DNS suffix" on all the working computers, this one on the LAN and the other two laptops on the WLAN all have domain.actdsltmp, but the non-working laptop has absolutely nothing. Everything else in the IPconfig is normal except that.

If anyone knows how I can fix this and get this laptop working on the WLAN, that would be great. Thanks.

[jcw122]

Try going into the WLAN's Status Page...Properties button>Internet Protocol (highlight it)>Properties (of the IP), DNS tab...there seems to be a buncch in there about DNS Suffixes...if that helps any.

[su root]

I doubt this is the problem. DNS Suffixes are just for dns lookups.

For example, a DSL company can set your dns suffix to "provider.com" and have you use "mail" as the servername that you put into your mail client, and during DNS lookups, it will look up "mail.provider.com" before it gives up on a DNS request.

If, for some reason looking up www.ocforums.com doesn't work, your system will also look up www.ocforums.com.provider.com before it gives up.