NIC Card Issue - network wide

[rivertrout10]

ALCON - I posted this under hardware earlier with no response - hopefully someone here can help.

ISSUE - I have a number of machines that operate on a domain regularly - we will call it DOMAIN 1.  DOMAIN 1 is a heavily administered domain where users have zero control on the machines.  In order to move a machine from DOMAIN 1 to another domain you must run a script that releases an admin password that will enable an administrator to join the machine to another domain.  We ran the script - gained admin control of the machines and subsequently attempted to join them to another domain - lets call it DOMAIN 2.

When we plug the machine into a known good port on DOMAIN 2 we get nothing on the NIC card - no link lights at all.  When we plug another machine (brand new out of the box) into the same port we can successfully join that machine to the domain.

I am looking for suggestions regarding the machines from DOMAIN 1 and what we need to look at in order to get these NIC cards to work.  I truly am under the gun here and am looking for any suggestions.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

[ale52]

Tried another NIC / checked Device Manager ?

Alan <><  

[rivertrout10]

Actually figured it out - I am dealing with especially restricted networks - NMCI (Navy / Marine Corps) and moving computers to our shipboard domain.

What we finally figured out was not only did we have to have the NIC set to autodetect (which we did) - but also had to go in and change some other setting one of my Marines figured out - I want to say it had to do with the type of network traffic or flow??

Swapping the NIC would not have done any good - we knew the NICs were good - not too likely that 50 or so NICs would go bad all at once - but I appreciate your response.

[Rob Pomeroy]

I truly am under the gun here

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