Hey everyone.
I've searched through this forum for this error and found about a
thousand of these topics... but after wading through about 30 of them
with no solutions working, I had to post my own topic. Sorry to make it

Hello - I think from reading prior posts I'm going to be asking a similar
question to one that has been asked many times. Apologies if this is going to
sound repetitive.
I'm trying to permit the exchange of data between my office PC (a W2K laptop

Reposting with more info (thanks PChuck)
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I have a W2K laptop (part of a corporate domain) that I'd like to connect to
an XP box at home (part of a workgroup) via a crossover cable.

I am trying to determine if manually changing the duplex and speed settings
on a network card manually: - Device Manger - Network adapter- properties -  
Advanced tab, changes anything other than speed/duplex registry key located
at:

Two XP Pro's networked Ok.  The client accesses the internet via the main's
ADSL cable modem.  Wierd thing it can access some sites but not others, for
instance it can access and search via Google, but it won't access MSN or
Windows update type sites.  It accesses my bank's site ...

I know this might not be the correct news group for this particular
question, but it is network related question...
I have my computers here all linked through a router off my cable modem and
have all the drives setup to share files between each other (Win98 and

It sounds easy and simple enough...
The windows help file says:
1st) Enable your computer for offline files.
2nd) Go to my computer and right-click on a shared network file or folder

I have a one Linux box that I have to configure as a backup machine. I can
ssh (using putty) from WinXP to linux, but cannot get any communications to
go from Linux to WinXP. All firewalls are down so they are not the problem.
If I try to ping the WinXP box from linux, it just ...

Hello, I've been using the internet through a wireless router in my house for
a while now, however i've put the router in my room so I want to access the
internet through the ethernet port on said router.  When I enable all the
ethernet side and disable the wireless side I loose ...

At present I have a working network between my laptop (XP) and my
desktop(98SE) using a crossover cable. I am connected to ADSL Broadband via
a USB connection
Everything is working well.

Im curently running winxp professional sp2, ie6 on a 512 adsl (alcatel
speedtouch). Ive been experiencing periods of time where my connection goes
inactive, mostly in games (Age of Empires3) that have gone on for some time.
Occasionally the connection goes inactive on the ...

Hello, and thanks for your assistance in advance.  I am having an issue with
Win XP with SP2 installed and firewall disabled.  I noticed the problem first
because I was unable to VPN.  When I do a vpn to another network, I recieve
"Error 721 - remote computer did not respond" ...

On my Windows XP SP2 machine (on a home network, not part of a domain), if I
ping my local machine name, it returns:  
Pinging MY-HOME.my.com [::1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from ::1: time<1ms

I am attempting to add an XP Pro workstation to a Windows 2K3 domain.  After
I enter the domain administrator username and password, I get an error
message returned stating:
The following error occurred attemptnig to join the domain "domainname":

I have an XP Pro client that is misreporting Drive sizes on Network Drives.
The Drive is 120Gb with 114Gb free. Under My Computer the size is reported as
1Gb with 500Mb free. How can I get this to reflect the true value?