I have successfully set-up a home network between 2 Windows XP Home machines
(1 desktop & 1 laptp). The desktop is wired into the router and the laptop is
wireless into the router. I have also setup mapped network drives between the
2 machines.

I am trying to connect my computer (windows xp) to my parents computer
(windows 98) We have the cable and network card which is all good. Both
computers are connect by the cable and we have set up it correctly but it
keeps coming up on my computer (w-xp) that the other computers ...

I have a home network, 3 machines, all workgroup=HOME, 2 are WinXP Home
SP1 (computersA and B) the other is Win98SE (computerC). They are
connected via a router, no software firewalls. There are shared folders on
each machine and a common workgroup name. All computers can ping each

Even if you select the Reconnect al logon check box when connecting a network
drive, the drive it is not reconnected when xp restarts till you open the
network drive using the windows explorer. Do you know if it is possible to
reconnect automatically the drive when windows xp ...

I currently have two XP machines networked through a router. I will call
them MCE (XP media center 2005) and XP (professional)for the purpose of this
message. MCE is connected via Wireless-G to the router and XP is connected
via wired ethernet to the router. Currently the router ...

I have 8 clients and a server, acting as a peer-to-peer network.  SOMETIMES,
on 2 xps, when I try to view the workgroup, it tells me something like "Can't
view, maybe you don't have permission'.  there's only 1 workgroup, called
MERGERARB.  Right now, I can view it, but couldn't ...

We installed a new pc yesterday and we cannot see our network from it. Now we
can see this pc from other pc's on the network. Our Computer services
department says that we have no domain and just plugging the pc into the
network is all that needs to happen in order to see other ...

I use a shared folder to connect 5 computers via a peer to peer network.
This folder has been mapped as "Drive J:" on each.
When any one of the networked computers are turned on it may or may not
consistently connect to the shared, mapped  folder.  This happens even with

I am having a problem with my network, my network has a few PC and a mac OS
10.3. we had the same work group and i was able to load files to my PC
notebook before. but begining from today, the mac and my notebook cannot
recognise nor connect to each other thru the network, i try ...

my dial up connection icon is missin from the system tray
after connecting to the internet, i checked the "show
icon in notification are when connected" its already
checked, and i dont use"hide inactive icons" all showin!

I discovered the fix to my problem on an XP networked system: uninstall
Hotfix KBB88520.  If you are experiencing a networked XP Pro & Home system
where all was well with the network and you could see all files, etc. on the
XP Pro system until you installed XP SP2 & the 13 ...

I have an issue with a small network. I can see all the
computers on the network. All computers can open each
others files as required. The problem is the XP Pro
computer can only open files from other computers, but

When I networked my laptop to my desktop, I was able to share files, but only
the files in the "shared files" folder.  My question is, is there a way to
network to my old user name's files on the desktop computer, and not just the
shared files?

ok i have named my computers harold and kumar...ok here is the
problem...kumar is able to access the shared files on harolds system, but
when harold trys to access kumars file, an error window pops up and says
" \\kumar is not accessible. you might not have permission to use this

I installed  Win XP  and when I launch Battlefield 1942 (multiplayer) omline
I get kicked completely out  of the game and back to my desktop.   The game
plays great until I try to go online.  I tried disabling my firewall and my
antivirus protection and this did not work.  All of ...