We have two desktops in the house (1 in my room and another in my brother's).
We have a cable but how do I set up a network (for printing to my printer and
transferring files from one pc to the next?
Both pc's have XP home.

one of 7 machines on LAN cannot connect to DNS but can share files on LAN,
all other machines can connect. DSL connection,  wired LAN with switches.
this just started happening and i don't understand. can someone help?

My PC (with Win XP Pro SP2) is configured for hibernation and WOL. It is
cable-connected to an DSL-router/modem which also acts as DHCP server.
This setup worked fine until I upgraded from SP1 to SP2. Now when the PC is
sent to hibernation it reboots after some seconds. I noticed in ...

i have a network consisting of a router connected to a WinXP machine
and a Win95 machine. a Lexmark 1020 Jetprinter is connected to the
Win95 machine. My problem is I cannot print from the Win95 machine to
the WinXp machine - i have set up the printer in WinXp and when i

Can anyone help with a possible solution to why I cannot see myself under my
workgroup. Have completed the networking wized several times I can see the
workgroup but when I double click on it I cannot see any computers

I have a Linksys Wireless (and Wired 4 port) Router WRT54G and have succeeded
in networking two Dell Desktops (A and B) and a new Thinkpad X-41 Tablet PC
(T).  Computers A, B and T all show up in the "View Workgroup Computers"
screen on each of those computers.  All three ...

Ok, so both my Windows XP computers are conected wirelessly (ad hoc) and work
just fine. How do I actually send and view files through it? there's no
option to send the file to the other computer (which seems logical in ad hoc
mode to me; right click and "Send to...PC2"). Why ...

The host is a (new) Dell Computer with XP.  The other computer I want to
network is a laptop with wireless internet connection running Me.  
I have already run network wizard on Dell.  Next I believe I have to insert
XP c.d. into laptop and run  XP network wizard and not Me wizard ...

I have two computers connected to my DSL router. One runs windows xp pro,
and other runs windows XP home edition. Both of them used to work well.
Recently, I tried to remove spyware by running Microsoft antispyware beta on
both machines. After that, my windows xp home machine ...

I have three other pc's that can find the server by name and my one pc could
for 3 months find the server by name, but now it suddenly can not. Any ideas!!

I tried to set up a wireless Home Network with one desktop and three laptop
computers.
However, on the desktop, I cannot see the "Microsoft Windows Network" Icon
in the "Entire Network" folder.

I was using Windows XP Prof on my PC, and was supplied with a Recovery CD
for Windows along with my PC, and the Hard Drive crashed, Now i wish to
install Windows on a new Hard Drive, but the CD is a recover CD.
How do i install Windows to new Hard Drive without encountering the ...

I need to transfer files from my desktop to my laptop.  I have both machines
on a home network using a Linksys router and I have Windows XP Pro on both
machines.  I want to set up a shared folder in the laptop and copy files to
that folder from either the desktop or the laptop.

a handfull of our users are unable to login to their windowsXp pro systems
using their username@domain.com username while offline. They receive a domain
unavailable error.  However, they are able to login using their username less
the @domain.com and then manually select their ...

In Windows 2000 Windows Explorer, when I right clicked on a folder or drive
and selected "Sharing and Security...", I could nominate those users to whom
I would grant access. I can't seem to do that in my Windows XP Pro. I'm just
setting up a home wireless network (I used to just ...