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It's definately not a misconfigured IE issue. It happened on all the pc on the network when I made the DNS changes. In order to make it work I had to revert my DNS changes on the Win2K server and then for some reason turn off the proxy built-into the smoothwall.

You're using an HTTP proxy? In which case, that's another source of things to check. Sounds like you should make sure that your intended DHCP server, and your Smoothwall, aren't conflicting -- i.e. that the Smoothwall itself isn't serving DHCP, and that the address you intend the Smoothwall to have (.5) isn't being given to someone else by the DHCP server.

If you can ping google but not surf to it, and you're using a proxy, that means that your PC has DNS correctly configured, but your proxy hasn't -- or, the proxy itself is unreachable for some reason.

Peter