I'm trying to do something that may not even be possible, so I'd appreciate
any direction as to whether or not I should even pursue it.  I have a desktop
and a laptop connected wirelessly as workgroup homenet.  That was working
fine, but then I decided I also wanted to connect ...

I have used the home network wizard and have named my computers and
established a workgroup.  One computer(office) does allow access to the
other. it has a wireless conection to a the DSL gateway, and I am getting to
the shared files without any problems.

I've got a mixed environment network, most machines are running on an
Active Directory domain (Newdomain) but there are a few legacy machines
that are still running on the original NT 4.0 Domain (olddomain).  One
of the users on newdomain can access all of the shares on olddomain

I've been having problems trying to network two desktops at home, which I
strongly suspect may be caused by a firewall issue from posts I've read here.
Both machines are running XP Pro SP2 with the Windows firewall enabled and I
also have Norton Internet Security 2003 installed ...

OK, here is my issue.  I go into My Network Places, and click View
Workgroup Computers.  About 30-60 seconds later, it brings up this
message:
"Mshome is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this

Several users on our network get the following error message, in the form of
a bubble on the bottom right of the screen: could not reconnect to all
network drives.  However, when opening "my computer" to check the status, all
mapped drives appear and are accessible.  I was very ...

I am very new to networking.  May I indulge some quick help.  I have set up
my primary PC via Ethernet to an Actiontec DSL modem, and then turned on the
wireless capability.  All works well here.  I then added my second PC to the
network via a USB wireless Linksys adapter and it ...

I have a 2 computer network both with XP pro. I added a USB 2.0 external
drive to computer MAIN. MAIN also has drive C and Drive D plus an HP
printer and a scanner also connected to USB ports. A CD drive shows up
as E and the USB drive is F. Sharing is set to Share Folder and Allow

My sons system, at college with him.  Right before he left we upgraded from
98 to wp-pro-Sp2.  He and others at the school are having an issue, with the
firewall disabled, truned off in services, it still shows "on".  They (he)
can't make the needed initial connection to the ...

I need some expertise in offline files.  Here is a chain of events that has
played out too many time.  Bob is assigned a desktop which is joined to our
domain.  His My Documents folder is moved from the default location to a
network share so that it will be backed up.  Windows XP ...

Hi, I searched the newsgroup and the web for the answer but am stumped!
Bought a new PC and networked to my old PC.  Both have Windows XP home.  Ran the network setup wizard on both. Internet connection sharing works fine.  The old computer can see/access the files on the new ...

I'd like to be able to go from my wired ethernet to wifi (both linked to the
same router) without losing any connectivity (i.e. without losing mirc, MSN
etc.). Is there anyway to do this with windows xp tablet 2005?

This is a repost from 9/16 above with "ipconfig/all enclosed heading". I
will include the ipconfig/all from above plus the browstat status from both
PC's.
Windows IP Configuration

I know this has been discussed endlessly -- but I can't figure out the
fix after numerous queries and attempts. So I appreciate the help:
Problem -- One XP SP2 portable on home network (through Linksys router)
has classic netbios name resolution symptoms: basically, everything

We are running an older program that requires lpt assignment for printing. I
can access the network printers but cannot assign them to a specific lpt
port.  I have used the following process: Start, Printers, Add, Network
printer. It lets me add the printer but I can only address ...