Hey Folks. I may already be headed in the right direction but I wanted to
make sure I had any specific steps necessary to do this properly before I
tried to do this tomorrow on my own. I have dsl/cable router at home that I
plug 2 pc's into the ethernet ports for internet access. ...

I have 3 computers in a workgroup, all running XP SP2 home edition, with a
wireless network, using NTFS file system.
The 2 oldest computers had some problems and I had to reinstall XP.  I can
no longer acess the shared docs files between them, although I can access

I conected two XP using an inverted utp cablethe and the home network wizard
but the PCs dont see each other.  I disabled the SP2 firewall, I reinstalled
the network adapter drives, I reset the IP settings using netsh on both
machines,  but I have no success.

I have a 5 computers on my home network 2 running W2K, 3 XP Pro. My
problem is for whatever reason I can no longer access my shared files
and printers. Every time I attempt a connection I get an authentication
window asking me to authenticate the guest user on the sharing PC? I

Hello, All
[WLAN w/ 3 WinXP units; Linksys WRT54G as gateway + 2 laptops as
clients] After months of near-faultless wireless network function,
suddenly neither one of the client machines can access the internet on

I have been having network problems - nothing appears in WORKGROUP. As an
experiment, I decided to disconnect the network to see if a shared resource
(a shared folder) on my computer would appear under WORKGROUP in
MyNetworkPlaces.  My computer has a name & has been assigned to ...

after many times exploring newsgroups, forums and Ms KB, without any answer,
I finaly submit you this case...
I certainly missed something....
Here is the case:

Alright here is the situation 3 networked computers, on 1 I can "see" all 3
in show workgroup but can't ping anything but self I have tried EVERYTHING
but pulling the norton

Q: is there a program that alows you to change ur IP settings automatically?
eg. home ip = 192.168.0.1 work ip = 203.31.49.1, home workgroup = mshome work
workgroup = utopia... want to be able to change between these without
manually changing ip settings everytime. Changing ...

I'm running XP Pro on my host machine networked with 1 client machine
(cross over cable) with XP Home. This morning they were both working
fine. I must have blown the NIC in the host and had to replace it.
After replacing it I had a hard time getting networking back up. I now

I have created the following home network in my new house (in the UK).
DSL internet from Virgin
LingSys Router WAG54GS
Ethernet connection to Win 2000 Pro Laptop (and then thru VPN)

I have a Windows 2003 domain with XP clients.  I have recently added a new
machine and it can use everything on the network but I can't connect to it
using Remote Desktop, browsing in Net Neighborhood etc.  Even with the
firewall switched off I still can't reach it.  It is on the ...

Well,
I have a home network configured and running but I do have a problem. My
home network consists of five computers, 2x hardwired desktops (1x Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition and 1x Windows XP Home), 2x wireless laptops (both

Any help would be appreciated as I have tried a lot of things so far!
Basically, I have two computers, the old one with Windows Xp and a new one
with Windows XP Media Centre Edition. The new computer is connected to the
internet with an ADSL modem. I have used an USB cable to ...

I have a executable I need to upgrade on all of my user's computers.  I do
not need to install anything, simply copy a file to a specified location in
the program files directory.  
I was going to do this with a simple batch file and make it part of the