A question regarding a small office LAN using XP.
The server machine has a shared drive (D:) and other client machines can
access it.
Each client views the shared drive at the server as Y: drive (ie. network

I came to the group several days ago seeking the solution to my networking
problem. Several MVPs (Chuck in particular) responded with great info and
asked me to come back to the group and share any insights I might have had.
So in that spirit, here I am and here is what happened:

I keep getting an error 691 message when trying to connect to my dial-up ISP
using Windows XP. The username and password are not incorrect. Retyping the
username and password doesn't work, neither does recreating the connection.
If I keep redialing, eventually the username and ...

I have some Windows XP SP2 clients which cannot be able to use
%SystemRoot%\System32\Drivers\Etc\Services file.
When I run following command, there is no problem:
telnet 202.120.225.9 21

I have a peer-to-peer network setup with three computers runnig Windows XP. I
also have a printer on the network with a print server that all the computers
could print to until yesterday. Now suddenly one computer won't recognize the
print server any more and I cannot print from ...

Is there a registry hack or something I could use to permanently shut off
the firewall in Windows XP Professional (SP2)?  My company uses it for our
kiosk system, but for some reason the firewall will turn itself back on
eventually no matter how many times I turn it off.  It is a ...

I joined an px client (sp2) to a windows 2000 (sp2) server
domain. Everything works O.K. until the client is rebooted,
after the reboot I can log in and see the server but can not
access the resources. If I plug in the DNS IP address in the

When i am typing ipconfig in Command prompt it says " ipconfig is not
recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch
file.:
it does allow me to install or conger my dsl to this computer

I have 2 XP PC's.
They are connected via a switch.
The PC's can ping each other.
I have ICS setup & the client PC can connect to the Internet OK

I just replaced NT4 with Server 2003. A new machine. It has been up and
running for about a week. Now I am having some logon issues. The XP Pro event
viewer and 2003 event viewer are listing failed logon attempts from multiple
machines. The trust relationship failed. Reestablish ...

I am trying to network a home PC with XP home to a domain work laptop running
XP pro via a crossover cable.  The work laptop has a Fixed IP address.  
In TCP/IP Properties, what is the difference between the "Obtain an IP
address automatically" selection under the general tab and ...

We normally use http://smtp.DomainName to access the mail server especially
outside company network. It worked in the past but not now. If I replace
smtp.DomainName with the internal or external IPs of the mail server, it
works perfectly.  Our DNS server is located at our isp, ...

I have 4 computers running on my home LAN.  Three of these are wired
Ethernet connected to a Linksys router (WRT54G); all of those are running
Windows XP Pro SP2.  I also have a notebook running Windows 2000 and
connecting wirelessly to the router.  Last night, everything was ...

I have a server (windows 2003 enterprise) running on our development computer
in regression testing, and we have a windows xp workstation elsewere that
needs to be registered in active directory and in the domain but it needs to
be able to logon using the local accounts with the ...

Forgive me for being obvious, but I cannot seem to figure out how to prevent
users from having the ability to "Change Password" after pressing Ctrl, Alt,
and Delete.  I read an article somewhere, advising to modify the registry on
the user's machine to accomplish this.  I was ...