I have several PC's on a LAN. I am unable to map any PC's drives to any
other PC. But I can use Run and the remote PC's IP address to open the
remote PC drive. I apologize that this must be a clueless newbie
question. Thank you, --Doug

I have a laptop from my work that is running XP pro and belongs to a
domain.  I would like to be able connect the laptop to my home computer
running XP Home edition via a wireless router, and access shared
folders and printers.

how do I turn an old server to a client on my network?

I'm not there yet but I have 17 hard drives (6 internal & 11 mapped) A & B
are floppies (Not) C is boot, D & E are DVD's F,G,H,I & J internal,
K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,Q are mapped. what happens when I get to Z - What's
Next??

I have two similar problems.  I have two networks, one a workgroup and one is
a domain.  I need to replace a PC on both networks.  However, the last time I
did this...I had a minor error.  The new PC's will have the same computer
names that the old ones do.  So when I take the ...

Win XP Pro
ipconfig /all shows correct DNS servers; however, nslookup and other
utilities that attempt to actually perform DNS lookups use incorrect
DNS servers. It appears that nslookup and others are getting DNS

Got a new laptop running XP... brought it home, turned it on...
everything worked fine (wireless network).  Able to access net and other
computers and printers.  That was yesterday...
Today, it can still get to the internet, but the other computers and

Good signal, easy setup.  Using with WRT54GS in another room.
Problem is, with the connection for this device enabled, my hard drive
clicks and grinds about once every second. The disk access light comes
on for a brief moment. It's been doing this now for several hours.

I have 2 XP Pro's networked.  The user name and passwords are the same on
both.  PC A is acting like the server and has 4 shares.  PC B maps 2 drives
to two of the shares.  PC B also has a UNC shortcut to the 3rd share.  The
problem is that every 2 or 3 days PC B loses access to ...

I have a couple of questions i would like someone to assist me with. I am
trying to have 2 PC's use the same Blueyonder/Telewest ISP broadband
connection.
Here is how i have gone about setting my home network up so far.

I have one Windows XP pc that can logon to the domain, but the loses total
network access after doing certain network things. For example I can connect
to the domain and browse files on a mapped drive from the domain controller
with no problem. If I try to open Word and it tries ...

Anyone ever try to create a null modem connection from one system to another
and use the wireless connection on one of the systems as a gateway for the
other?
Confused? Here is a better explanation;

My PC is connected to the internet via an ADSL router. If I dont use the
internet for about 90 minutes then try to connect then both email and IE fail
to respond. Reboot always reconnects. Sometimes, but not often, if I power
off / on the router I am able to reconnect. I have ...

We have 5 PCs connected to our home network - 4 wireless, 1 desktop.
Printer/music/media is shared from the desktop to the network.
Desktop's name is \\MAIN
All but one of the wireless PCs can access the desktop using \\MAIN but one

First...please understand that I have little idea what I'm talking
about..i.e....networking novice !  I have a home network with 3 pcs and a
wireless HP all-in-one printer all connected through a Netgear Router/hub.
My internet connection is all through the router.  I have two ...