Every now and then I make a trip to a friend's house and stay for a week or
so. He lives with his brother and daughter, and all three have computer on a
home network. When I go up there I hook my computer into the network.
However, when I come home I am no longer on a network. Yet ...

I hope I'm not showing total ignorance with this question (just partial
ignorance).  Is it possible to network a single machine hooked up to a router
using DHCP?  In addition there is more than one hard drive, partitions,
operating systems and user accounts.  I was wondering if I ...

well basically i have a desktop computer with a linksys nic card and a 56k
v.90 modem, and a ibm thinkpad laptop with a 56k v.90 modem. i have the
desktop hooked up to the internet using the linsys nic card. and the laptop
hooked up to my desktop using a lpt port lap link wire. ...

       I have a direct cable (back-to-back) connection between COM ports
between a desktop and laptop machines both running XP Home. This runs fine
at 115200 bps. I was wondering if there was any way of speeding this up?
There was a way of changing normal(!) modem speeds to ...

I've just set up a home network using Linksys router/hub (wireless
hardwired) for 2 desktops and a laptop. All desktops are  running X
Home with firewall off and file sharing on but while I can see in on
direction I can't in the other. Instead I get an error msg indicatin

Hello.  Is there a way to access the complete contents of another computer on
the network?  Not just the shared folders but everything on the computer.  I
am the network administrator.  
Thank you.

After upgrading to XP SP2 I have no access to displaying pages with IE.
Pings, traces, nslookup and any other tests to the web ok.
Communications with other PCs in the local network also ok.
Help with some ideas?

i was about to play this game online, but a screen came up and and i had to
click "run" or "dont run". i accidentally clicked "dont run" and now i cant
get to the game anymore and the and that screen does'nt show anymore to ask
me if i want to run or not. how can i change this or ...

Hi;
I am trying to create a direct cable connection using a serial cable between
two XP SP1 machines, i have followed the instrustions in MS document
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814981 but the following error keeps coming

I have an adsl modem router providing an internet connection for 4 connected
computers (Wired).
One of my desktops now has a wireless card installed, and I am trying to set
it up so my wireless laptop will connect to the internet via my wireless

I have an XP Home gateway computer with an XP Professional computer connected
as client over a MS Home Network, using a completely standard Ethernet
connection, set up using the LAN wizard.
When on line, the client computer persistently dials the Internet dial-up

I'm running XP pro on my desktop wired to a Belkin Modem/Router, and XP home
on the laptop which is wireless to the Router. Both machines have perfect
access to the internet, but I can't see either machine from the other, or
share any files, although I could a few weeks ago ...

I have been unfortunate enough to be the victim of someone who has designed
an internet blocking "search engine" that they have called NETSTER.
Once it has bedded itself in my computer it overridews any other web site
that I may request, placing its own page on the screen.

I have 3 computers set up with a home network.  I can see all my shared files
in My Network Places, and I can click on the file I want, but when I do, (it
requres user name and password), it will not authenticate the file.  Any idea
to the solution?

Recently I uninstalled my network adapter to try and fix another problem. It
didn't fix the other problem, but now I had the LAN icon constantly in my
system tray "acquiring network address" with the little ball going back and
forth.