We have four machines in our office that are networked together through a
router. All are using XP Home and basically work together very well.
Sometimes we do however get long delays when trying to see things on other
machines - I can't tell whether this is happening on one ...

I just bought a notebook which came with Windows XP Home Edition. But at the
company I work for I can connect to the network normally, access all
computers, except one, which is a linux running machine, only accessible
through Samba.

Ive got one PC running xp home and a laptop running Xp pro.  Both
running wireless and dhcp on the router. I tried with fixed IP and got
the same problem. Basically i can connect and file and printer share
when i first bootup. Then randomly i cant access one from

I really need help regarding networking. My company got more then 20 PCs and
all of us run in network. We using the same network but without SERVERS. So
now our problem is that only limited users can access to the network and the
rest just on n off to the network. So hw am I ...

I have 3 Computers, all XP Home.
The Main one has an Internet Connection, and and other PCs connect via a Hub.
The Main PC is new, and the Old Main one has become a Secondary PC elsewhere
in the House. The Other 2 PCs get an internet connection, but when they want

I have problems with Firefox 1.5.1 in that in about 25 % of all cases,
when I try to connnect to a web page, I get the following error message:
"Server not found ..."
When I click the button Try Again, Firefox connects to the website in

I am working on a laptop that connects to a Windows 2000 Server domain
controller.  XP Pro on the laptop got corrupted so the OS was re-installed.  
Afterwards, I hard wired the laptop into the network to re-join the domain.  
I then tried to connect wirelessly but am now unable to ...

I know this question may seem odd, but say I got two different internet
providers, one DSL and another Cable. Each is configured through a
router and shares its own connection normally.
Now at any time I can connect to a single network no problem. (The DSL

I have been trying for several days to set up my home network for sharing
files, reading various suggestions on this site and Chuck's webpages. I have
a pc wired to a belkin router and a laptop connected wirelessly to the
router. Both pc and laptop connect successfully to the ...

So here is my problem..sometimes i can get on the internet and sometimes I
can't. There is no reason why.. such as a changed setting or something of
that nature. it just seems to be completly random. Here is what I'm working
with...  windows xp sp2, verizon DSL, an ActionTec ...

i downloaded 91% of windows xp service pack 2 from download.microsoft.com.but
suddenly power went off and the computer switched off , is tehre any way that
i can continue downloading from 91 %

Now, that does not happed.  All I can do is see the shared folders but says
access denied when I double-click on it.  I am trying to access a share on a
XP Pro PC from another XP Home or Pro PC on my LAN.  A Linksys router
connects them by cable.

I think I need to upgrade from Home edition to Prof in order to connect to a
corporate network (Y/N?).  
My laptop has an AMD 64-bit processor.  Can I use the professional upgrade
to move to the professional/64 OS?  Is there a specific upgrade package for

I am triing to map the admin shar of a networked computer at home, I know in
NT 4.0 you could do if you were running behind a domain, i am using simple
workgroup config to do this network, can i do it with Xp pro And SP2?

I have a question about my download speed on the internet. I have a
128K internet connection. When I download a large file like a podcast
it takes a long time. The speed at which the download happens is very
much slower. Like 10K per second or less. Now I do realize that there