I have a Desktop which is connected directly to my wireless router.
The desktop has a printer attached to it.  I just bought my wife a new
laptop and just want to be able to print to my printer (which is
connected to the desktop).  I ran the Network Setup Wizard on the

Has anyone had experience with this who could give a bit of advice ?

Recently (everything has been fine until a few weeks ago) I've started to
have this problem with two XP Home computers running through a router and
with McAfee Personal Firewall on both PCs.
The problem is, when placing files in some sub-folders in the shared

I have a laptop, which I use at work and home, and a desktop PC I use at
home. Both run Windows XP.
I can't get them to "see" each others shared folders, but I can play network
games with them. How can I see shared folders? Do the computers have to have

Hi, I live in an apartment with three other people, we have a dsl connection,
one person is connected to it with a cable and the other three are connected
through wireless. we have a problem with other people stealing our
connection, but we don't know how to protect our ...

Not too long ago I noticed that the network drivers weren't loading (at least
the little icons in the tray weren't there) when I started up the computer.
There also seemed to be something running the background that wasn't found in
the task list. On restarting, there was no ...

I have 2 PCs networked using a crossover cable (Win XP Pro SP2 & Win 98SE) on
an internal modem Dial-up. After experiencing problems with the latest Zone
Alarm upgrade, I uninstall ZA on both my PCs (using Uninstall/Clean per
instructions from ZoneAlarm Forum).

Because of the security issues I've read about when using wireless I was
thinking of setting up a home network that keeps my desktop plugged in to a
hard wired connection and using my laptop as a wireless for things that don't
need to be secure. Would this get around the security ...

I work from home on an XP(SP2) box. I have a Netgear wireless ADSL
router and I am pretty much permanently connected to our main office by
VPN (PPTP). The Netgear router is doing DHCP and the home net is
192.168.1.0 (Mask 255.255.255.0)

XP Home lets you save as many dial-up configurations and wireless network
settings as you like, but it only gives you two sets of LAN settings:
'general' and 'alternate.'
So if you have a promiscuous laptop that likes to plug itself into lots of

When I use IPCONFIG /ALL some of the ip address show like this
fe80::212:3fff:fe72:f1ab%4. What is causing this and is there a way to fix it.

I am trying to set up a network between 2 pcs, via a router cable The host
pc keeps saying other computers cannot network with it.  I've done all kinds
of troubleshooting, unchecked the 1900 2369 (or whatever numbers they are),
but it still wont work. Any suggestions please.

I have an XP machine with two network interfaces: one built-in, and
another on a PCI slot.
One connection is for the office LAN, for file sharing, with IP on the
192.168.0.xx subnet.

I'm trying to network my laptop to my home PC - both connect to a cable modem
through a router: the laptop is wireless and also connects to a Netgear
wireless router (coming off the internet router), the home PC is wired into
the internet router. i set up both PC's as part of a ...

In my home situation I have several computers, in different locations and
assigned to various tasks, comprising of  Mac’s as well as PC’s. The Mac’s
run OS X and the PC’s, Windows 98 SE and one machine operates XP. I connect
directly to the Internet through the XP machine and ...