Heres the thing. I have never had trouble with this until just this
afternoon. I have restarted and shut down several times and it still has not
corrected itself. When I try to open my Network Places through either the
control panel, the start up menu option, the search option, ...

I have a NAS drive on my home network. Under XP I could map different drive
letters to different folders on the drive. Under Vista I was initially able
to set up the storage the same way, but now something has changed and I
cannot log on to the private folders, even though I ...

I just bought a new laptop and it was initially working fine on my wireless
network.  However, on day 2, a Vista pop-up come up and asked if I wanted to
make my network more secure/private.  i clicked yes and since then the
computer no longer recognizes my WEP network.  It thinks ...

I am running Vista ultimate on a windows 2003 server domain and I can access
the domain server just fine with my client, however, I cannot access the
client from the server, i get "\\x-pc is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. Contact the ...

Hi guys i have just installed vista on my machine and i'm having an issue
with the wireless networking. I'm trying to connect my machine to my router.
I have tried three different wireless usb adapters when installed they appear
in device manager as working correctly and i ...

I just bought new laptops with Windows Vista Business.  My students log in to
the network (Windows 2003 Server) using roaming profiles.  We have a mix of
Windows XP and Windows 2000 Pro that all log in just fine using the roaming
profiles.  The Windows Vista machines will not ...

How do i change the nettwork name that appears in the Network Sharing Center.
From some reason the network name is based on my PC name. I have a wired
network with cable modem and router.

I don't know what just open but every link/shortcut that you find on Windows
Vista to open the Network and Sharing Center does not work, when I click on
it, nothing happens, no window pops up... What the hell happened? Anyone has
a clue? How do I fix this? confused.gif

I have a work PC running vista business that is about 4 months old. About 2-3
months ago i got RDP working, and have been able to RD from both work
machines and a home machine (via vpn) w/o a problem.
Now, in the last week or so, i can no longer RD in from any machine. I get a

          I just got a Vista x64 machine. One user account without a
password.  I created a folder on C:\ called Public and enabled sharing
read/write for everyone. When I click on the Vista computer from my WinXP
computer it asks for a user name/password. What is the password? ...

Hey Robert, Chuck, Barb [or any MVP],
I upgraded my Netgear router WGR614v6 to WGR614v8. I have a Vista Premium
laptop, LAPTOP-PC, and XP Home desktop, DESKTOP-PC, connected to the router
using a WIRED connection. I have no problem accessing the internet from

I have a new desktop and laptop both with Vista and am trying to set up a WPA
secured network.  My desktop is connected by cable to my router and the
laptop connects via wireless.  My router was set to WEP, but I want WPA which
is supposed to be more secure.  However, when I set ...

I would like to browse network behind the VPN rounter (Linksys
WRV54G).  The QuickVPN client connects ok to the router.  The router
log says I'm in.  However, I can't browse network behind the router.
I tried disabling firewall on my box (Vista Ultimate) and my local

This is similar but not the same as other discussions, so here goes:
I have a laptop running Vista Business connected through a wireless Belkin
8011g router to my home network, which consists of a PC running XP that is
ethernet (wired) to the router, and an HP printer that is ...

I have a Windows 200 machine that has a network share (Reports).
I have a Vista machine that accesses this network share.  Vista had
been playing very nicely with that share until Monday morning, when I
came in Monday morning now this share cannot be accessed by Vista I