Windows Newsgroups: Windows XP Networking

XP Pro can not join domain

IT - 30 Sep 2006 11:09 PM - 8 messages

Hello I have a laptop with new XP pro install, I am not able to join it to the domain, it gets an IP address and can access internet just fine, I can join other machines to the domain but not this one. the message says, can not find ...

password x for read, password y for write

Trance - 30 Sep 2006 10:34 PM - 5 messages

Hi, I would like to set up a bunch of shares as follows: 1) readable/writable by everyone 2) readable by everyone, but only a select few can write 3) only a select few can read and write ...

routing traffic between network card and wireless

Seb - 30 Sep 2006 5:38 PM - 2 messages

Hello, I have a PC with one network card (LAN) and a wireless card. I would like to route some HTTP traffic arriving from the LAN card to the wireless connection (so have both connections running at the same time). ...

Network access/logon to user vanishes and Guest appears in its place

Ron - 30 Sep 2006 5:26 PM - 4 messages

I have had my two-system home network running for a long time - my computer accesses my wife's (via a password) and she can access mine the same way. We are both at XP SP2 (though I only recently upgraded to SP2 from SP 1). ...

Modem Hijacking?

cashbar - 30 Sep 2006 3:58 PM - 5 messages

My computer was dialing long distance numbers. I scrubbed the computer and re-installed windows XP. Will this solve the problem? ...

Pro Vs Media center

safeguy - 30 Sep 2006 3:58 PM - 5 messages

I sign into various networks (domain and other types) with Pro now. I have different user accounts set up for the different networks. Have to get new laptop. The selection with Pro installed is rather slim. Does Media Center have the same networking capabilities as Pro does. Have gotten lots of ...

Pinging problem from client PCs

trevormidgley - 30 Sep 2006 2:53 PM - 14 messages

I have a small peer-to-peer network of three computers. All computers are XP (SP2). What settings do I have to adjust (and on which PCs?) so that I can ping correctly by both IP number and name? Thanks in anticitpation. ...

Beginner!! In my local network all PCs can use the DSL modem but...

mercenario nr.7157892 - 30 Sep 2006 2:39 PM - 8 messages

it is impossible to sheare folders. Also a ping between PCs don't give results. I use automatic DHCP. In the past I used fixed IPs and so the PCs culd share folders and the printer! How can I do the same with DHCP? ...

What DNS addres to use on internal network?

foxj77 - 30 Sep 2006 2:12 PM - 4 messages

Hi there, I'm having a problem with DNS on my home network. My setup is as follows Desktop Incoming pipex adsl connection using modem - gets ip details automaticall from ISP. This is set as shared. Wireless network card ...

keep losing interent on netwoek

Simon - 30 Sep 2006 12:37 PM - 2 messages

I have a home network with a belkin ADSL router. I have just extended my network into the loft where i have ahome server running. Since the server has been put up every so often i loose internet to all ...

Big problems with LAN connection to router.

Ross Chapman - 30 Sep 2006 10:09 AM - 3 messages

I have been having some problems connecting to my ADSL Router Started off randomly disconnecting then reconnecting every morning. Tried to do various things to fix it. These included trying to reset TCP/IP settings, and winsock settings. I tried deleting the winsock and winsock2 keys from ...

Linksys router with Quest DSL?

Bishoff - 30 Sep 2006 4:38 AM - 4 messages

We are seriously thinking of switching from Cable Broadband (charter) to Quest DSL. Can I use my existing routers (Linksys / D-Link) or do I have to get their modem/router? I'm thinking that the output from the dsl modem is a ...

No files showing

stacey - 30 Sep 2006 2:09 AM - 23 messages

I have 2 desk tops both on xp home, 1 is wired (primary) and 2nd is wireless. On the wireless I can pick up the network, get on the internet but I can't see any files that im sharing from the primary. I am also getting a message ...

How can I setup this home network?

stktung - 30 Sep 2006 1:14 AM - 3 messages

Hey guys, I have some problems setting up my home network .. any help will be greatly appreciated. My network is currently setup as such DSL Modem The problem with this setup is that my laptop cannot see and access Computer A (probably becos the wireless router and laptop is on its own ...

Network cable unplugged

Wiggles - 29 Sep 2006 6:12 PM - 2 messages

Hey, i have a problem ive been trying to fix for months. I installed a new cooling fan for my video card and when i started up my computer it kept flashing network cable unplugged and id have no access to the internet. ive ...

Windows XP Pro Mapped Drives Disconnect!

VIT - 29 Sep 2006 5:09 PM - 2 messages

I have a Windows XP PC in a Windows 2003 domain and if I leave the PC on overnight my mapped drives get disconnected. Is there a setting somewhere that does this, something like a timeout value or a keep alive? Any help or ...

Problem Networking an XP Home with two XP Pro Computers.

kjfrey55 - 29 Sep 2006 4:59 PM - 10 messages

I have a workgroup set up with one Home computer and two Professional computers. When I use Windows Explorer on the Home computer to bring up My Network Places>Entire Network>Microsoft Windows Network> and click on the ...

Video Sluggish over network??

mr_nice_1973 - 29 Sep 2006 3:45 PM - 4 messages

I have a folder of video files that I am sharing over my network. When I try playing these video over the network on a different computer, the video is very sluggish. Are there things that I can do to make the ...

Firewall blocking some web browser functions

Cliff Lewis - 29 Sep 2006 2:50 PM - 3 messages

I have noticed that some web sites do not work right since I installed the latest upgrade to my firewall (Computer Associates ezTrust Personal Firewall). In particular, looping animated weather maps on intellicast.com do not function. Both Netscape and Internet Explorer ...

Can't access networkdrives when connecting via vpn

Bernhard Jasny - 29 Sep 2006 2:50 PM - 2 messages

Greetings, We are using notebooks with windows xp sp2 and a server with windows sbs 2003 sp1. Our users are allowed to make the mounted networkdrives (logon script: net use i: \\172.25.101.2\business /persistent:yes) offline available, which is ...

Mapping Networked Printers Using Command Prompt

Tristan Martin - 29 Sep 2006 2:23 PM - 11 messages

Dear All, My name is Tristan and I am the IT Assistant for the company I work for. We have currently just moved a printer to a new location and is being shared by a computer. What i wish to do is create a batch program that the users are ...

VLC for radio on dial-up?

Ken Knecht - 29 Sep 2006 1:51 PM - 2 messages

If you are using VLC to listen to radio on the internet over a dial-up connection (~48K) (no DSL available here) how does it work? Better than the MS Media Player? I have a copy but haven't installed it or tried it. ...

Windows XP Pro Two NIC configuration

michel - 29 Sep 2006 1:39 PM - 2 messages

I have a Windows XP Pro box with two Gigabit RJ-45 connectors on the motherboard. I have two separate company broadband connections at home - a cable and a DSL that are both wired into the house with separate jacks. How do I configure Windows to use both of these connections and ...

I have outlook express, cannot access links to web

Sgarb - 29 Sep 2006 11:27 AM - 4 messages

I have outlook express, just downloaded IE 7 and now cannot access web through links in O Express. How can I adjust this setting? ...

can not access a site

grandpa - 29 Sep 2006 11:08 AM - 2 messages

- I recently lost access to a site that I use frequently. When I try to access the client to log in I get an error - "A problem was encountered trying to connect to our servers. Please check your internet connection and ...

Ping does not work in both directions

klara - 29 Sep 2006 10:50 AM - 9 messages

Hi! Please help. I have local network with 20 ps-s. Some winxp, some win 9x. One computer with win xp sp 2 see everyone, but no one see it. Ping works only from that pc which see others, but do not works from the other side. Guest ...

Looking for mail server software...

Noozer - 29 Sep 2006 6:09 AM - 13 messages

I've been looking and looking for some reasonable mail server software and having little luck. I'm hoping that someone can suggest something that I may have missed. My requirements: - Multiple domains. I have two domains for which I want to host mail. ...

Locking Down Desktop/Laptop Wireless Access

rdgiii - 29 Sep 2006 4:01 AM - 3 messages

Hello, I am trying to lockdown a XP based workstation so that it can only connect to wirelsss networks selected by the administrator. I kow that I can configure so that the workstation does not automatically connect to a non-preferred network. I am trying to lock ...

XP Pro Home Networking

Dadio - 29 Sep 2006 3:25 AM - 2 messages

I have 2 PC's on a network with a router. Everything works fine from one machine but I can't access it from the other. I get the message: You might not have permission to access this network resource. Contact the ...

IP Address Renewal Failure

Ray - 28 Sep 2006 11:31 PM - 3 messages

Working on trying to restore network connection on friends computer. She has satellite internet. Has Modem and Router. Modem and router seem to work because am able to connect with laptop and wireless NIC. Main computer has new and old NIC (both wired). Both NIC's on problem computer work when we ...

100MB NIC's running at 10MB

Michael - 28 Sep 2006 7:55 PM - 3 messages

I have 20 nodes with Win2K and XP pro in a workgroup configuration connected via 100MB NIC's to HP 100MB hubs and routers but PC's are reporting 10MB connection speed. Any ideas on cause or where to start investigating would be ...

Can not connect to internet

DBC User - 28 Sep 2006 6:14 PM - 5 messages

I installed WinXP on a PC, which has previously crashed. I am using wireless netgrear usb adapter. So during initial setup it didn't find the internet connection. After that I installed the driver now at least the netgrear connection shows green and shows as connected, but ...

Web-Browsing Problems with Netgear Router

Dulahey - 28 Sep 2006 5:59 PM - 2 messages

Using a basic Net-Gear router (at work don't have exact model number atm) but anyway my problem really only has to do with Web-Browsing. I have 3 computers and an XBox 360 connected to the router. (360 is off ...

Web-Browsing Problems with Netgear Router

Dulahey - 28 Sep 2006 4:43 PM - 2 messages

Using a basic Net-Gear router (at work don't have exact model number atm) but anyway my problem really only has to do with Web-Browsing. I have 3 computers and an XBox 360 connected to the router. (360 is off ...

How "convert" favorites folder to a list...

George - 28 Sep 2006 4:27 PM - 4 messages

I'm using a WinXP-pro PC and IE6. In the "Favorites" folder that has all my links (shortcuts) to favorite websites... is there any way to quickly/easily "convert" a batch of these to a *list* of URLs and send it to someone? ...

XP Pro Peer to Peer Networking Issue

kepgeek - 28 Sep 2006 4:19 PM - 7 messages

I have a XP Pro Peer to Peer network of 2 PCs. All PCs can ping both ways -name and ip address. The server can see and map tothe client. The client can see self but not see or map to the server. I have also tried multiple ...

Priorities between 2 networks

Txl - 28 Sep 2006 3:19 PM - 3 messages

Hello all, I am using internet on a laptop and a desktop through a wifi network with a router and all is fine. However when the laptop is in the office close to the desktop I have an ...

Drives Map Themselves?

tkosel - 28 Sep 2006 3:00 PM - 5 messages

This is I think, a stupid question but I have to ask it. I have a small peer to peer network. Computers are running XP Pro. One machine is acting as the "HOST" for some shared applications and data. (This software was designed to ...

internet

sharky - 28 Sep 2006 10:52 AM - 2 messages

Everytime i connect to the web, a certain website pops up before my main isp. How do i stop this. ...

Odd domain log on problem

gdwallace - 28 Sep 2006 9:21 AM - 10 messages

i have found the reverse of this problem elsewhere in groups but not the exact problem. 2 users have reported that they are unable to log on to the domain when they have a network cable attached. if they unplug, they are able to log in, presumably cached log in, then ...

network print as user not as guest

ToddAndMargo - 28 Sep 2006 6:30 AM - 6 messages

Hi All, I have a windows 2000 server that mounts WHFC Hylafax print shares from two W2k-Pro, sp4 computer and two XP-Pro, SP2 computers. The two w2k-Pro shared WHFC printers work perfectly with the w2000 ...

using ethernet for the workgroup, and wireless for the internet

googlegroups - 28 Sep 2006 6:01 AM - 11 messages

I have 4 computers running xp. I have a wireless router for the internet as we only have the cable coming in to the house in one room, and none of the computers go in there. To transfer music and files, it ...

Help with wireless card please

Sara - 28 Sep 2006 4:35 AM - 3 messages

Hello, I bought 2 new office computers to add to an existing wireless network. Currently using D-Link514+. The 2 new computers that I bought are Acer Aspire desktops. I also bought 2 new wireless cards Belkin 802.11g - one for ...

How getnamebyaddr work?

Polaris - 28 Sep 2006 3:06 AM - 3 messages

Hi Experts: Can anyone tell me how getnamebyaddr work? Does it try to resolve name by contacting local DNS service first (looking at the local /Windows/System/drivers/etc/hosts file)? If failed, it will try to contact remote DNS server? ...

Logon to server

Claudia Mumford - 28 Sep 2006 2:15 AM - 3 messages

Hello everybody Can someone please look at the attached error message. I am getting this everytime I am trying to connect to my domain. I have 2 windows XP computers and 1 Windows 2000. Everything is running great except I am getting this error ...

Help troubleshoot wired vs vpn connection

Paul Proefrock - 28 Sep 2006 12:04 AM - 5 messages

I have a small peer to peer network that works fine. I have a dozen "Network Places" that all connect and browse as they should. When I go remote, I try to connect from one machine to another via Windows ...

can't add a computer to a home network

EGS - 27 Sep 2006 10:48 PM - 3 messages

I am trying to add a laptop to a wired home network. I have run the wizard (several times) and manually changed the workgroup name on the laptop to the home network workgroup, both in the computer name tab and in the network ID. ...

Problems with 802.11G seeing Ethernet & vice versa

RealGomer - 27 Sep 2006 10:21 PM - 10 messages

I have three computers in my house. The main one is directly connected to a D-Link 514+ wireless router with Cat5E cable. The D-Link is then connected to a Cisco 675 DSL modem. Both the laptop and the other PC have 802.11g ...

self ping fails

Mike_in_yorkshire - 27 Sep 2006 8:37 PM - 15 messages

XP laptop ("badcomputer") has the following symptoms: Badcomputer CAN'T ping its own IP address Badcomputer CAN ping 127.0.0.1 Badcomputer CAN ping the gateway IP Badcomputer CAN ping other computers (IPs) on the network ("goodcomputers") Goodcomputers CAN ping each other (IPs) Goodcomputers CAN'T ping Badcomputer ...

Frequent demand for WPA

aaltinalmazis - 27 Sep 2006 7:54 PM - 3 messages

-- Sending my greetings to all our fellow members... I would like to know your views on the frequent problem that I face with WXP asking from me to activate my system too often...ie after a crash ,I had to ...

Bad IP address

Vkihyone - 27 Sep 2006 7:03 PM - 5 messages

This problem started all of a sudden on the 20th, I would be playing a game on the internet and all of a sudden I'd get an R0 (Recieving: 0) signal meaning I was not getting any information back from the main servers. I ...

My Network Places

Justin - 27 Sep 2006 6:56 PM - 2 messages

When I click on My Network Places, there are a whole bunch of links that are automatically created. How can I have this so that I only see the links I want and not all the others? I want to remove the links I don not use and ...

Can a network adapter have more than one IP address on XPP?

sparky62 - 27 Sep 2006 5:10 PM - 5 messages

Can a single physical network adapter be configured to have more than one IP address on XP Pro? ...

Router Problem - Networking

vid - 27 Sep 2006 5:01 PM - 4 messages

Hi Everyone.......need help thought I could set up DLink home networking.......... installed it........... just on one puter.. on High spped internet......... somehow the lines got crossed the phone line is tied up........ the router is unhooked and I dont know how to erase the internal ...

Network Connection Icons Are Gone

Duane - 27 Sep 2006 4:04 PM - 4 messages

First let me say that I am a complete noob at posting to newsgroups and I appologize for any protocols or standards that I am about to step on. This problem is similar to another post, "Network Connections do not show" ...

PC's not seeing each other

Mark Flynn - 27 Sep 2006 3:37 PM - 2 messages

Hi Chuck: I have two PC networked on a peer-to-peer network named: ANY MARK-X60S is running Win XP pro MARK is running Win 2000 pro Notice that the browstat status report gives a different browse master for ...

Computer Freezes at ctrl alt delete login screen

TIm - 27 Sep 2006 3:11 PM - 2 messages

I have an enterprise network mostly consisting of Dell GX620 and Dell GX280s recently those computers will freeze at the login prompt. I have found that I have to boot into safe mode log in as admin, remove TCP/IP reboot and back in ...

Extracting graphics/slides from videos

JoJo - 27 Sep 2006 3:06 PM - 6 messages

Folks: I have some DVDs that contain the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders. The VIDEO_TS folder contains *.VOB video file formats. A typical video presentations consist of: Audio, Video, Text, & Graphics components. * I am looking for SOFTWARE that would allow me to extract or separate ...

Network adapters for Laptop

LarrySPhillips - 27 Sep 2006 2:33 PM - 2 messages

I have a laptop with a wireless network card and a it docks into a station with a wired nic. I have a network-intensive application, and want to use the wired connection (100Mbps) when docked, and the wireless (54Mbps) when undocked. ...

Building a SuperComputer

JoJo - 27 Sep 2006 2:26 PM - 9 messages

Folks: A few years ago, I read that a Supercomputer was produced by connecting several thousand older windows computers. I have 2 old slow computers (550 MHz processors). * Can someone briefly explain how this linking is done & how it works ...

windows XP Desktop

Ollakal - 27 Sep 2006 12:08 PM - 6 messages

Hi On my windows XP machine, I cant change my desktop, when I right click on my desktop and open the Desktop tab the blue back ground that is the one there now, but donâ€™t allow me to change it, try to select any other background it ...

Network Connections do not show

Costas - 27 Sep 2006 12:01 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I'm running XP Pro SP2 with all the updates. For some reason when I go to the "Network Connection" I don't see anything. Last night I re-run the setup and I saw the connections. Today everything is gone again. When I go to the ...

switch trouble

Morose - 27 Sep 2006 10:20 AM - 4 messages

Hi all, I had a quick look for previous question like this but couldn't find anything - so here goes. I have a laptop and a desktop both running XP pro SP2 , and I wanted to link them together so the laptop could share my desktops wireless web connection. ...

Searching on a network drive

Rob Cowan - 27 Sep 2006 10:18 AM - 2 messages

Our systems are Windows XP Pro SP2, patched up to date on a SBS2003 domain. We have a few mapped drives connected to our server and we are finding that whenever we try to search for a file on a mapped drive, it is returning no ...

Net Send

richardmgreen - 27 Sep 2006 9:24 AM - 7 messages

To be perfectly honest, I'm not the most technically mionded of people and I don't know if this is the right group for this so apologies to start with. OK - question tie : On Windows XP (not sure about other O/S's) there is a nice little ...

Messenger eavesdropping

Joachim - 27 Sep 2006 8:00 AM - 5 messages

Is it possible to eavesdrop on what other users are talking about with MSN Messenger? ...

HTTP server on a LAN using ICS and Windows Firewall

zezozose - 27 Sep 2006 7:28 AM - 8 messages

I want to run Apache on a box on the LAN that is connected to the Internet through ICS. The ICS host is running Windows Firewall. Can it be done? If so, how? ...

apache server for xp home

tevia - 27 Sep 2006 7:21 AM - 2 messages

I've installed apache http server 2.2.2 so that I can write dynamic web pages using dreamweaver 8. I believe the best 'format' to use is php files, for which i have downloaded the php application server. However I'm clueless ...

no port 80 communications

jzechar - 27 Sep 2006 5:03 AM - 7 messages

I CANNOT open http pages in either IE or Firefox. I CAN open https pages, email, ftp, non-standard ports via DC++, etc. I cannot access port 80 via other applications like Exact Audio Copy (for CD lookup) or ...

File and Print Sharing from XP Home to XP Pro

Bamaopoly - 27 Sep 2006 12:51 AM - 2 messages

Hello, I've got a wireless network (workgroup) set up in my home. Cable Modem and the XP Home machine (Den) are connected to the wireless router by CAT 5 cable. The XP Pro machine accesses the internet through the ...

Is Remote Web Connection Secure in XP?

Nate Networker - 26 Sep 2006 9:58 PM - 5 messages

Can anyone tell me if connecting to an XP Pro box via the web using web connection (and remote desktop) is secure? I am asking for 2 reasons: 1) I have not been able to get XP's VPN server ...

Loss of Connectivity on Only One PC on a LAN

eli - 26 Sep 2006 9:20 PM - 14 messages

Hello: I posted about this several days ago, but it seems the thread got lost. Kindly excuse the repetition. I had followed the troubleshooting steps on that Chicago Tech site as recommened to me when I first posted here: [link] ...

my 2 computers have fallen out...

GT - 26 Sep 2006 8:51 PM - 3 messages

I have a problem with my 2 PCs. I have a laptop with XP MCE. On that laptop I have a folder called "Files", in which I keep all my personal and work files. I have a second PC, a desktop with Windows XP Pro. My XP Pro machine ...

Disabling logon-window when access through home-network

Pinguan - 26 Sep 2006 8:06 PM - 2 messages

Hi there, I have installed a home network (2 win-Home, and 1 WinXP). Everything works, that is I can access all (shared doc's) on all pc's from all pc's, but when I want to access my WinXP computer I get promted with an logon-screen, which ...

Network Connectivity

Larry - 26 Sep 2006 6:23 PM - 2 messages

I installed a web stat analyzer and shortly after lost connectivity to our office network, but still have access to the internet. It is a 2 computer network. The other machine in the office can "see" this one, and I can ...

Deleting Old Unused WorkGroup, How??

Susan - 26 Sep 2006 5:38 PM - 2 messages

I setup a second network group, MYGROUP or MYWORK, that I don't need now that I got both computers talking to each other using the default, MSHOME. Where can I locate and/or delete the old unused workgroup? OR, does the Wizard ...

Cant Share Files or Printers

NNlogistics - 26 Sep 2006 5:37 PM - 3 messages

I have 3 systems (A +B +C) both are running XP Pro. I cant seem to get to network from A. I set up workgroup called "Home" on all systems and there didnt seem to be a problem. When I access the network from B or C - Entire ...

XP Network Bridge Problem

Jered - 26 Sep 2006 2:26 PM - 2 messages

I'm at my wits end, and can't seem to find anyone having the specific same problem I'm having. If anyone can help, it would be HUGELY appreciated. Here's my setup: I have a PC upstairs that is running XP Pro, connected to the internet ...

how to remove a workgroup

Vajra - 26 Sep 2006 9:31 AM - 2 messages

Some one at my work place has created a workgroup that does not belongs to me and i am not able to remove the second workgroup. Can anyone help me in this regard?...... ...

Connect WinXP Pro and Fedora 5 via Firewire

Callistus - 26 Sep 2006 8:11 AM - 4 messages

Hi, I have two system, whose configurations are as below: 1. GigaByte Motherboard(GA-K8N51GMF-9) which has an inbuilt Firewire port, USB 2.0 port, GigaBit LAN running on AMD 3000+ processor, 1G RAM, WinXP, connected to Internet over PPPoE ...

DHCP + NAT port forwarding = does NOT work ??

Wolfgang Hercker - 26 Sep 2006 6:39 AM - 7 messages

As far as I know a LAN with a DHCP router AND NAT port forwarding does never work. For NAT port forwarding rules the router need to know to which target computer (=target IP) he should forwarding incoming requests. Because of DHCP the target computer can be assigned ...

Home network 2 computers

peterhayes - 26 Sep 2006 6:17 AM - 4 messages

I have 2 PCs networked via router, I am the only person to use both so what I want is to be able to treat these two PCs as one ie totally share everything but protect both from web attacks as they are both connected to the web via ...

Microsoft Networking

mdland55 - 26 Sep 2006 4:16 AM - 2 messages

I have set up a small network for a business. All 4 machines are running Windows XP (proffessional or home edition). I have one computer that cannot access any of the other computers and the other ones can access some but not ...

Computer Browser Service shuts off after disabling Windows Firewall /ICS

eli - 26 Sep 2006 3:18 AM - 7 messages

Hello: I disabled the Windows Firewall /Internet Connection Sharing service. I did so to try and help some connectivity problem I was having with my DSL LAN I use Zone Alarm firewall and the Router I use [Linksys BEFSR 41] has its ...

Unable to connect to VPN

ankur.mittal - 26 Sep 2006 1:47 AM - 3 messages

I have been unable to connect to my office VPN from my Laptop from home to work using Microsoft VPN Client. This has worked for me from my laptop in the past but one fine day it stopped working. I am able to ...

Home network and shared files and printers

Joe Rice - 26 Sep 2006 1:09 AM - 2 messages

I have 4 PC's operating Window's XP Professional. I used to be able to see the shared documents folder on any of the computers from any of my other network computers. I could also see and connect to the printers on any ...

Missing XP SP2's Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC)

Phillip Pi - 25 Sep 2006 11:00 PM - 4 messages

Hello! I noticed my Windows XP Pro. SP2 (all updates)'s is missing WZC in its Service list. How do I get it back? I assume I don't have to have a wireless network device in my machine to have this appear. ...

Weird DHCP behaviour in different VLAN

Filipe - 25 Sep 2006 9:47 PM - 6 messages

Hi there, i'm stuck on the following problem with XP clients on a switched network: Several windows xp professional (SP1 and SP2) clients, members of a Windows 2003 Domain boot daily on a switched network, getting a dynamic IP address ...

Accessing 2 networks from 1 PC

wincom - 25 Sep 2006 8:47 PM - 8 messages

I have 2 NIC's in one PC. One NIC has static IP settings which allow the computer to access a network in another location through a point to point line. For Information, this is a 172. network with a 172. gateway and DNS. ...

Bad WFI reception

Help to boost Laptop WFI reception - 25 Sep 2006 6:41 PM - 3 messages

I have a Centrino Wireless Laptop Computer. At home connection to the Internet is good in any room, and fair at the patio. Last winter our RV Resort did profie us with free WFI. I was enable to get ...

Connecting remote Pc's to domain

bmadsen - 25 Sep 2006 5:18 PM - 2 messages

There is probably a thread on this somewhere here. Could someone point me to it? Outside tech joined most of our computers to the domain. Left a couple and is flaking on getting to the two remainder pc's. I do not know how it is done. ...

Insufficient Privalege - access denied

JimC - 25 Sep 2006 5:01 PM - 2 messages

Small windows peer-to-peer netwok. Most computers can see one another but there is one that will not permit any computer to attach. Tried everything, file sharing and the like but will not permit connection. Making me nuts - any suggestions? ...

Need help with win98 wifi

jrico - 25 Sep 2006 4:38 PM - 14 messages

I just purchased a wifi card for an older computer w/ WIN98 our kids will use. I setup and installed the card w/o problems. Used the netgear connection wizard to setup the network info and everything looks fine there. It sees the wifi router and all but there is no internet ...

stupid question: see'ing who is looking at a shared folder

Chris Barnes - 25 Sep 2006 4:12 PM - 6 messages

I have a stupid question: I have a folder which is shared R/O for everyone (guest). Is there a way I can tell who is looking at that folder (or has that folder mapped)? ...

Wireless, DHCP, 2 Networks

Tom - 25 Sep 2006 3:23 PM - 3 messages

I have a laptop that I want to connect wirelessly to separate home and office wireless networks. Both networks have DHCP servers. The laptop is assigned an IP address by DHCP on the home network and everything works fine. On the ...

Remote Desktop

RogerM - 25 Sep 2006 1:50 PM - 3 messages

I would like to know if there is a way to disable Remote Desktop from keeping the last user and system logged into information ...

Adding an user to a remote localgroup by scripting

pnunbe - 25 Sep 2006 8:26 AM - 6 messages

I am running a small network made up of XP Pro computers (no domain). I can add an user to a localgroup on a remote machine via the "Computer management" console, but I could not find any way of accomplishing this task ...

Problem with VPN and Virtual Machine

jostein.solstad - 25 Sep 2006 6:36 AM - 2 messages

Hi. Have strange problem that i have not been able to solve. At work, we have to networks, one that is wireless, and one that goes through a "regular" lan. They have different providers. The wireless is working fine. I can autenthicate trough Netscreen Remote, and browse ...

Printer sharing while cabled to a router

Bob Smith - 25 Sep 2006 3:47 AM - 2 messages

I have two computers cabled to a router. How do I also do printer sharing? Thanks Bob ...

I have Outlook Express running on on PC and the laptop.

Irv - 24 Sep 2006 11:00 PM - 4 messages

I have a Linksys Wireless-G and a Linksys access point; two cabled PCs and on Centrino laptop. The laptop gets all or most of the mail. Why is it the laptop and not the PC? Thanks, Irv ...

View Remote Computers in Network Neighborhood

wirelsss and non wireless home network

IP traffic at boot-up

Slow Gigabit network

Computer browser service won't run.

Three network cards (eth, wifi, ieee1394) an nexthop troubles.

Sharing dial up over home network

Different Folders visible for Laptop at Work

telnet

Internal error