I have 3 pc's networked. The host and one other is running xp pro, the third
machine is running xp home. Although the host will share the internet with xp
home it will not share it's files or printer with it. The host shares
everything with the pc running xp pro. any advice

Has anyone got XP working successfully with Token Ring or is it a complete
no-no ?
If so, which cards/drivers worked ?
Unsuccesful search in the Hardware/Driver compatibility lists.......

I have an outside sales rep. for our company who purchased a desktop w/ Media
Edition.  I set up a VPN on his desktop, but need to get him access to some
Network Shares within the company's network.  The dompany has a Domain
environment, and I can't join the domain with XP HOME  ...

Hello Group!
I have a company laptop with XP Professional working in a domain
environment. I use this computer at home to access my home lan and
internet with no problem. This computer also has a secondary drive with

I am on a company network. Internet acces is fine. We have an HP businessjet
3000 on the network. When I try tonsyall it asks for the password. It will
install Ok and work fine until I shut down. When I reboot The printer has to
reinstalled again. This is the only computer on the ...

I have two xp's networked through a netgear 614 router and roadrunner cable
modem. I've got the network running reasonably well except for one problem.
It seems when either computer tries to access the internet from a link in
internet explorer it will not connect and then we lose ...

Can anyone point us to where could we find a Window-based free WOL utility
from a "creditable" provider?
After succeed on remote desktop, we would like to incorporate WOL from a
remote location (just in case the computer is down at the time), and we did

We are currently having a problem from time to time where we start our
computers and it appears the machine does not get a DHCP address before the
group policies are applied.  When this happens, our network drives do not map
to the machine.  The only resolution we currently have ...

All of a sudden I find that I cannot run DOS commands like Sysedit from the
DOS prompt in WIndows XP Service Pack 2.  I can see the files when I type
DIR, but when I try to run the commands, I get an error that WIndows cannot
find the file.  Any thoughts?  Thanks.

On Chuck's recommendation I took a "leap of faith" by trusting the LSPfix
utility to re-register my network stacks, followed by the WinSock2 and
WindowsXP fix utilities.
That wiped out my wireless network completely (sort of expected that).

I have been searching and testing a networking solution primarily for file
sharing and intranet web site development for a while.
However, I am getting more and more confused about what is the ideal
approach(es) for our tasks.  Appreciate those who have helped answering many

We're having some trouble with browsing performance on our network.
When browsing the network using a "network place" shortcut, the browsing
slows down with each directory level.
\\Server\Share            Hardly noticable slowdown

i am trying to network my 2 home computers computer 'A' reads computer B'
but computer "B' cannot read computer A.
i get error message stating that i might not have permission to use the
network resource. to contact the administratorof this serverto find out if i

Hi, any help at all with this issue would be much appreciated.
I am attemping to set up a small home network (2 Comps- 1 "Home" WindowsXP
Pro 1.6ghz PC, and 1 "Mobile" WindowsXP Pro dell inspiron laptop). I have a
D-link wireless ADSL router which is RJ-45'd to the main PC which ...

I am new to this and would appreciate an explanation here.  Under the column
"local IP address" in my Firewall log, sometimes it shows"localhost" and
other times "mycomputername(xxx.xxx.x.xxx). This computer name is also my
SSID( without the IP address of course)