I am currently expanding an office network. It was running fine with an EZ 8 Port Ethernet Switch, 2 windows 2000 machines, 2 win98SE machines, 1 Windows ME machine and a roaming laptop running windows
2000. All machines have been patched to the latest available updates from microsoft. One of the windows 2000 machines is running ICS and acting as a DHCP server. My problem came about when I replaced the EZ switch with a DLink 1016, 16 port switch. When I connected the machines all except the windows 2000 running ICS connected fine and networked with no problem. The other machine refuses to accept that a network cable is even connected. The NIC on the problem machine si the same as the other windows 2000 machine and all the cabling has been checked. I reinstalled the EZ switch and the problem goes away. I also now have another machine running XP which also will not recognise the DLink network, but when placed on the EZ switch is fine. Just to add some more difficulty to this mix, I have used the EZ switch to expand the network further in another location in the office. It has 3 more machines attached. As long as the problem machines are connected to the EZ switch all machines are on the network and sharing files, printers and internet access no problem, ie. the problem machines can see through the DLink switch as long as they are not directly connected to it.Any ideas? Suggestions? Questions?