A new user with WinXP-Pro is experiencing a long delay at
Logon.
"Applying your personal settings." is displayed for over a
minute.

I need to access a shared folder that is on a Windows XP Pro computer from a Windows XP Home computer. Both computers are on a peer to peer network. I have no problem accessing the folder with Simple Networking turned on, on the XP Pro computer. But, for security reasons I want ...

Win 98 was easy.
I have no idea what to do here under XP.
There are passwords and user names involved.
There doesn't appear to be any help files telling you exactly what to do.

I shared the vpn connection to my office sucessfully.
However I wish office computers to see the network behind
the windowsXP machine i using to connect.
As it is the office machines can only see the winXP box

This is a duplicate of my post on the W98 forum. Hope I
receive better luck here.
Ronald H. Schow wrote:

I have 2 computers a new XP Pro and a new XP Home.
They are connected to the Internet through a router connected to an ADSL modem.
They both have ONE use account.
Same name same password on both machines.

When we connected Windows XP Workstations with a Windows
2000 Server domain. All the workstations keep restarting,
in some when login, and in some when start a program or
start typing a program. Can any one help what could be the

From: Jack Gillis (XXXXXXXX@widomaker.com)
Subject: Router Firewall and XP's Firewall
microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Date: 2004-06-25 14:34:23 PST

I have a laptop and a desktop which are connected as a workgroup in my
home office - using XPPro on both machines.  Originally, the laptop
would show up as part of the workgroup, both on itself and on the
desktop. Now it doesn't show up as a part of the work group either on

XP Pro Box getting error while trying to join NT domain.
Domain configured with DHCP. There are already other XP
Pro and win2K Pro machines on the domain. The error I get
is "The RPC server is unavailable"

I am using a wireless XP Pro laptop and everything works fine,
I have a LINX box with Samba running sharing some folders
I have mapped drives to the folders from XP and they are there OK, I ticked
the box for reconnect at logon. The mappings work fine

I have two computer connected via a wireless router and
other needed hardware.  I am able to get on to the web
with no problem.  When I run my computer number one that
has bother XP-Home and XP-PRO I can connect, as I stated

msndellnet was my web access homepage but now it has been
replace with out my desire and I can't remove it from my
desktop or stop it from preventing my access to msn

The last few days we've been trying to install 5 windows xp home computers & one windows xp pro computer to a peer to peer network. We are aware of the 5 computer limit for xp home and that is why we purchased a seat with pro. We have also tried to network only 3 computers at a ...

I have several XP Pro machines as clients on Netware
4.11.  They are very slow to open files on the server
shared drives on the first request. Once you have opened
one file, you can move about the network drives just