I've been experimenting with setting up a number of virtual machines
using VMware. An initial image was created with a Windows XP, and later
a number of clones were created.
 I've been able to logon to the network for a while with the virtual

I have a small (3 computer) wired Peer/Peer TCP/IP LAN and am trying to add
another computer to it.  The other computers all see each other, can browse
to each other, and appear under View Workgroup Computers.
The new computer appears under View Worgroup computers on the other

For several months, I have used the Win XP FTP utility to access my website.  
This morning it won't login and tells me the Username/Password is no good.  I
know it is good, but I think the information is corrupt.  I have deleted any
reference to the ftp site in My Network Places ...

i want to use this:
from cmd line: shutdown -s -f -m \\remotemachinename
but i get an access denied error. I wasn't able to find this at MSKB.

Is it possible to get a list of computers on a LAN using the command
prompt?

Trying to network my XP home machine with anotherXP home machine.  Having
problems and I have read that I need to implement "simple fire sharing" (My
computer\tools\folder options\view Last check box).
My machine does not have that checkbox so I can not implement it.  How can I

I have connected both computers to a router and each has access to the
internet with no problem.  My slave computer shows up on my host, but the
host does not show up on the slave computer.  Also, I am unable to share the
printer from the slave computer.  I ran Setup Wizzard on ...

Hi, my network onnection on my old laptop was cable LAN/High-Speed internet.
I switched the cable to my new laptop (internet works), but now I can't get
internet access on my old laptop anymore when I put back the cable.  Why
can't I switch cables to get internet on both laptops? ...

Hi, I seem to have the opposite problem from most of the network drives
issues I've seen when trying to find a solution. I'm on XP Pro, SP2 -
at some point in time I've mapped my 5 or 6 spare network drives to
server shares, etc. but have made non-persistent connections to those

I have the following problem: With my Laptop running Win XP Pro SP1, I would
like to join our network's domain "foo-bar.local" on a Win2k domain server.
Now, every time I try to join the domain, I receive the error message that
the network path could not be found. The weird thing ...

I have a laptop and a pc xphome on both. I have set up several shares on the
pc, that the laptop can access. I have 2 external hdd's N: and O:. I can
access N: and the files ok, but O: that is setup to share exactly the same, I
can only browse. I cqn open each folder on the drive ...

We are having some wierd problems with our roaming profiles with printers.
Windows 2003 Server (Active Directory)
Windows XP Pro Sp2
Printers (all printers are Xerox dc286 (TCP/IP connection, not LPT.) ) are

Hopefully someone has seen this problem, before.
I've got a Windows 2003 server domain environment using roaming
profiles.
A user is happily using his computer with only has user rights on his

Configuration:
Three PCs each running XP SP2
Local network with Router for net access
Background:

I recently swapped out network cards in my XP machine.  My "local area
connection" is now showing as "3".  When I set up the new card, I entered the
same IP address I'd been using with the other card and got a warning about
the IP being used by the other card, and reminded that ...