From: "Geo" 

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:43beced2{at}w3.nls.net...


> My efforts to get up close and personal with smbtree, nmblookup and
smbclient
> on the Mac/BSD side were going slowly, and now there's this indignity.
Anyone
> ever see anything like the above greying on their adapter properties, in
2k or
> XP?  Anyone know what it is?  NETBEUI is indeed installed on these
machines;
> no IPX.  About half are wide open; half passworded.  It's a peer net, and
both
> static-IP and DHCP machines were affected - but some never were.  Help
me - to
> turn off the Twilight Zone music.

I would go into network connections and remove the network connections then
remove the NIC in device manager, reboot and reconfigure them to see if the
grey goes away then. If yes then start working to get things going again
each step checking to see if the grey returns until you find what causes
it.

Is it possible tcp/ip (maybe dhcp or something) had failed and you were
running just netbeui?

Geo.

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