My laptop almost learnt to fly 15 minutes back :-8
I am trying to connect my sony vaio laptop [winxp sp2, Intel(R)
PRO/Wireless 2200BG] to a DSL based broadband internet connection using
a wireless lan. The system is configured to pick up an IP address and

We're developing an application that needs to launch a VPN PPTP connection
and then close it, the thing is that the connection must not necesarily be
created before this program.
is there a cmdline way to do this?(passing options to a command to establish

I was wondering if anyone could point out any implications to the network if
i set another IP address to a singular NIC.
I have a laptop running windows xp professional. The laptop travels between
two cities and each city has there own IP address configuration.

I just set up a new PC with Windows XP 64 and networked it to one running
Windows XP.  Everything seems to be working great accept that when I try
accessing "User Profiles" the "Program Files" folder or the "Windows" folder
across networks, I get the following error:

I have several comp's on a peer to peer all running XPPro SP2...on some of
them I keep getting a message that says "network cable unplugged" then about
3-5 seconds later it says "local area connection is now connected" or
something to that effect...all the while there is no ...

How can I sign on to my Linksys router's configuration page via the
'net when I may have changed something on it that prevents me from logging on
normally?

HELP.  I am running a new laptop running xp pro which I am using at work (and
connecting to a network that uses a domain).  I would like to ALSO be able to
see the resources on the home network (which is peer to peer using workgroups
and shared resources).  It seems that I cannot ...

Chuck,
Please browse to the following link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307162 as it explains
exactly why I can't print over the local area network from my XP pro mobile

Hi its more anoying than anything but when i bring up the ebay site im
recieving a pop up for a music company.Im not great on a computer but i would
like to stop this happening i thought system restore may sort the problem but
my system restore had to be erased back to leave my ...

Small workgroup here (named HOMEWLAN) consisting of a NAT-router (D-Link
DI-614+, IP 192.168.0.1, setup as DHCP server) and two computers:
- PC1 (desknote-winxp), a laptop with Win XP Pro SP2 connected via onboard
wired Ethernet card

I have (2) identical home built computers connected to a Netgear wired
router(wireless disabled). About every 9 or 10 hours the internet and LAN
connection disappears. I can recover it by rebooting the router, at which
point it will run for another (9or 10) hours and then quit. ...

HI...
I have very small network and i want to make one my XP pro machine will act
as WNS server so that other machine get resolved nme fm that machine
can you pls help me out

The instruction with my Netgear RP614 said to connect the computer to the
DSL modem, disable the software firewall, and turn it all on and run the
setup disk. The second step was to add the router. In the short time that
the computer was running unprotected, two VPN viruses were ...

Is there a way to upgrade from a current XP home edition to XP Pro?

My printer sharing under Win XP LAN workgroup can't print if data coming
from users from another workstation, but if coming from administrators it's
work normal .
Printer working normal if users/administrator print from that computer