My dial up internet connection has been working fine until today. When my
desktop starts to load, it becomes very slow. Then, a Norton AntiVirus window
titled "Symantec Email Proxy" pops out. It says "Symantec Email Proxy cannot
scan your email messages because your network is ...

Please help.  I have two machines x.x.x.206 and x.x.x.208, both are XP sp2.  
Both are behind a router.  I CAN ping both.  I run netstat -a and BOTH show
3389 as listening.  I checked both and ensured "Allow users to connect
remotely" is checked.  MSCONFIG shows "Terminal ...

I have a laptop with XP SP2. I am trying to connect to the internet via the
built in modem. I can dial up my ISPs servers, and connect, but IE refuses to
surf the internet. All I get is the no connection page, or sometimes an error
message saying IE cannot open the page. If I try ...

I put a new computer on a network. It is running Windows XP Home. I need to
connect to another XP Home computer on the network to map a network drive. I
can ping that computer from a command prompt, but cannot see it (or within
Windows. The domain of the computer I want to ...

Help,
I have used a customers ftp user name and password on our company ftp
server.  I now want to get to my own ftp folder and i can't.  I type in the
ip address ftp://194.xxx.xxx.x/ and I go straight in to the customers

I have an XP SP2 Pro machine on an NT Network, with a mapped drive that takes
15-20 seconds to appear (moving flashlight)
It is only 1 network drive out of 6 on the PC that takes so long.
Checked size of data in this drive (M) which is less than what is in the

i have been trying in vain to get a home network set up. i am running
2 desktops both XP Pro SP2. i bought a netgear WGR614 router, and want
to setup a wired network, everything seems to go fine everytime i have
run the network set up wizard (i stopped counting at 30 times) i have

I am getting a bit frustrated with this problem and hope somebody can
provide an answer. I have a desktop with a PCMCIA PCI adapter. I am
trying to use an Orinoco silver PC card to access a wireless access
point. The problem is that when I insert the card, Windows recognizes

I am trying to setup a Remote Desktop connection on a Windows XP Pro machine.
I have found, using netstat -a, that the port 3389 is not listed.  How do I
add this to the list.  Can I simply update the services file as in the old
days of Win 9X?

I have 5 machines all using windows XP home.  One of the machines we have
shared out a folder and the other 4 computers connect to it.  Normally all 4
machines can connect to the 5th but sometimes when someone reboots they are
not able to reconnect to the shared folder.  We get ...

i have a dhcp server serving multiple subnets.
when the link goes down the workstations go to the default address 169.254.?.?
what would be the best solution to allow users to get to the local resorces
until the link is restored?

I've established Local Area Connection at 100 mb/s and I set all the
permitions in simple file sharing but neither computer shows up in My
Networks. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for all the suggestions.

I have been using an XP Professional box configured with ICS turned on for my
small office. Recently we have acquired some printers that need their own IP
address, but it needs to be static, not served by DHCP.
I cant seem to find a way to mark a range of IP's for the DHCP service ...

I have 4 PCs networked .  I can see all Shared files from all PC's but when I
try to access a file (ie open a picture); sometimes the PC will lock up
requireing Task Manager to close the application.  In other cases the picture
will come up in the application but it takes several ...

I wonder if anyone has any suggestions for solving this problem...
I've got a small home network of five XP machines, all in the same
workgroup, all accessing the Internet through a Netgear router that
provides them with DHCP. I use an older PC as a server, and have a