here is a discussion iw as having with a gentleman who suggested to
post this here.
briefly my windows xp professional machine cannot be pnged from other
computers in my network, even though I cna see the others.

I have a RCA (thomason) Cable modem, which works fine. I am connected to the
internet, no problem. I bought a motorola router and installed it with no
problems,had an xbox hooked up and a laptop, then my computer crashed and I
had to reinstall windows.  

I have a small network setup at home consisting of three pc's all running
xpsp2. One of the pc's has decided it will be the DomainMaster  which is the
pc that is turned off most of the time so i can't browse the other pc's thru
network neighbourhood. Only way to connect is to ...

I have windows XP Home edition onmy laptop. I want to join my laptop with the
domain and when I try to do so I go to system and I find only workgroup not
the domain. I tried to startup netlogon services but it didnot work. Pl. help
Neeraj

I have a desktop, connected to a Belkin wireless router.  I have a
laptop with a wireless card.  The two have been in touch in the past.
Somewhere in the shuffle, they stopped speaking.  Now when I ping the
laptop's IP address, I get "Destination host unreachable."  The laptop

    I -had- three systems (Win95, Win98SE, WinME) all connected to a
    Linksys router (connected to my cablemodem).  All three of those
    systems could see each other on the LAN, could share files (though
    I might not have tried every combo), and could see the Internet

My sister bought a new laptop with Win XP Home It has an ethernet card and a
wireless adapter installed. When booted it shows the icon and message in the
system tray: network cable unplugged, as one would expect since there is no
LAN to connect to at her place of business only a ...

I am having problems on my laptop. A Dell Inspiron 6000 1.4 40 gb HD XP Home
plugged into a linksys router on a broadband connection.
All other computers on the network having no problems.
I can connect using peer to peer programs, and when I open Internet Explorer

I need to change this IP address to type A. I can not change even I execute a
command of ipconfig /release. It always give me an autoconfiguration IP
address 169.254.171.27  and a subnet mask 255.255.0.0 This Ip address and
subnet mask can't  connect to my network I have 3 ...

I keep getting this message from my router "Can't find NTP time". The
LEDS keep blinking
on all connection every few seconds.thanks

I have set up a network from my own computer as host with the appropriate
Network CD copied and loaded to a laptop connected by wireless router
(successful) and to a desktop connected directly to the router which does not
accept the loading of the host computer.  While my host ...

I hope this is the correct place to ask this--i could not find one
more suitable.
I'm using Windows XP Home SP2 with a Conexant SoftV92 Data Fax Modem.
It's Buffer is set to High (which is default), No initialize Commands.

I set up a network between 2 computers running XP through a wireless router.  
I can print through a shared printer and can access the "Shared Documents"
folder from either computer.  I set up other folders not in the "Share
Documents" for sharing on the network but get an access ...

Please tell me about any software to protect my pc with prono games &
messenger(yahoo&msn) sites.
regards,
Himanshu

ive set up a adhoc peer to peer network between a destop pc and a laptop pc.
the desktop has the internet connection on and the laptop and desktop
connect wirelessly together. Ive setup ICS, File and Printer sharing and all
works ok. my qusetion is can i access my email account on ...