Lesson Learned
One of my computers was not connecting with the LogMeIn.com servers.
My first thought was "A service is not running"
I checked the services and everything associated with running LogMeIn on my
computer was running properly.
"One of the services has frozen up"
I stopped and started all the services and that had no effect.
"When in doubt, re-boot"
rebooted, no change.
"The program is hosed"
One reinstall later and nothing changed.
"Damn"
"The firewall has got to be blocking something"
Firewall checked and everything was normal
"LogMeIn must have updated something and not a service is blocked by my
firewall that I don't know about"
Set firewall to wide friggin' open and still no results.
"Internet Explorer 8 is out and I still have not installed it, THAT MUST BE
IT"
1 hour later of installing IE8 and still no dice.
"Clearly the Operating System is hosed and I need to reinstall so I need to
download drivers, get the install disc, backup every..." Eyes momentarily
drift down to the clock "November 22, 2002?....... That don't make no sense
at all now does it."
Adjust clock to correct date and time = LogMeIn connects with the servers
immediately and everything is fine.
Conclusion: I wasted about 3 hours trying to fix a problem when it all
boiled down to the dang clock being off by over 7 years. 10 points to the
computer problem, and -100 points to me for not thinking about this first.
:(
My first thought was "A service is not running"
I checked the services and everything associated with running LogMeIn on my
computer was running properly.
"One of the services has frozen up"
I stopped and started all the services and that had no effect.
"When in doubt, re-boot"
rebooted, no change.
"The program is hosed"
One reinstall later and nothing changed.
"Damn"
"The firewall has got to be blocking something"
Firewall checked and everything was normal
"LogMeIn must have updated something and not a service is blocked by my
firewall that I don't know about"
Set firewall to wide friggin' open and still no results.
"Internet Explorer 8 is out and I still have not installed it, THAT MUST BE
IT"
1 hour later of installing IE8 and still no dice.
"Clearly the Operating System is hosed and I need to reinstall so I need to
download drivers, get the install disc, backup every..." Eyes momentarily
drift down to the clock "November 22, 2002?....... That don't make no sense
at all now does it."
Adjust clock to correct date and time = LogMeIn connects with the servers
immediately and everything is fine.
Conclusion: I wasted about 3 hours trying to fix a problem when it all
boiled down to the dang clock being off by over 7 years. 10 points to the
computer problem, and -100 points to me for not thinking about this first.
:(





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