I have been running my PC on vista for about a month. Everything was working great until I installed my VPN client for work. When I restarted the machine all my networks shutdown and so did my access to the internet. I ended up getting the internet to work but am still having problems with my network. The thing that bothers me the most is that my other computers can still see and transfer to my vista computer, but my vista machine cant see or do anything back. I have uninstalled my VPN software to see if that was the problem, and still nothing. Any help would be great. Network: 1 Vista Ultimate, 2 XP Pro, 1 xbox 360 Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Vista Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : hsd1.**.*******.*** Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hsd1.**.*******.*** Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8168/8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-19-DB-67-8D-2A DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::9db4:5849:a74f:cf0a%8(Preferred) IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.142(Preferred) Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:31:38 PM Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, December 14, 2007 10:31:38 PM Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 201333211 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Hi, Thank you for the post. In this case, I suggest restoring the system to a previous state before you installed the VPN client as the program may have modified something, which leads to interference with the network connection. If the issue persists after performing system restore is, please confirm the following points for further research: ======================= 1. Can this machine ping other computers? 2. What is the exact wording of the error message when accessing the share folder on other computers from this Windows Vista machine by using the UNC path? Thanks. Sincerely, Joson Zhou Microsoft Online Community Support

I just disabled IPv6 and all is working.