hehe yes ...
at work there's a colleague with bnc network cabling and since a week she cant print on a network printer. but everybody else can use the printer and she has access to network folders and the internet and also everybody can ping everybody and everybody can ping the printer. only she cannot pint the printer and cannot print.
we tried a lot:
cause they all have no administrative rights it's not possible that they could have changed something.
but never the less we checked her ip, subnetmask, gateway, dns. checked printers ip, subnetmask, gateway, printer queue ...
* putting her cable to another connection box --> doesnt work
* printer on another cable --> doesnt works --> printer cabling should be ok
* connecting her pc with a 30m cable to the switch next to the printer --> can print --> pc ok, printer ok, printer cabling ok
* another (working) pc on her cable --> doesnt works --> should be something the cabling
so we thought it has be her cabling and we called the network technicians and told them what we did etc.
their answer:
if her pc can connect to the net, her cable is ok. if the printer is printing from others pcs, the printer is ok. ergo: no work for the technicans.
simple solution ^^
edit:
tested it on another pc (bought on christmas and only used for gmail, word, online banking and solitaire ^^) and got the same result: it cannot load the shoutbox and kicks the adsl-router