Laptop's "ipconfig /all" report looks weird with strange characters for
certain addresses.  Is the following normal? This particular laptop is also
unable to see the Workgroup; I want the laptop to access the shares on a
networked Win98, but may the following report provides clues ...

i have 2 xp computers. one is new and i have had it for some time now
and  i have had no problms with it. yes i have altered just about evey
setting in it to be custum. so i realy do not want to format this one
because as we all know installing everything from ground up is a pain

I get "Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type
at this computer".
This goes both ways my comp to my brothers and vice versa.

I'm having trouble networking my laptop and desktop computers. They are both
running XP SP2 and I've uninstalled my Firewall and Anti-Virus software and
I've disabled the XP firewall.
I can ping 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.1 and my desktop(192.168.0.102) from my

how to "see" usb camera on lan

Greetings. I have a Toshiba laptop in a small (two-node) home network. Both
the laptop and my home PC (HP) go through a LinkSys router which is, in turn,
connected to a cable modem. I know the setup works because my home PC has
zero problems getting to the Internet. Until ...

two pc's both running XP Pro SP2, Host has 2 NIC, using ICS to share Internet
Connection, all works ok.
I have enabled File & Print Sharing on both PC's yet only the host (where
printer is connected via USB) can use the printer and neither PC can see the

Network problem
I have searched and read solutions on virtually every networking site I
could find to solve this network problem to no avail.  I even offered
to pay a networking specialist who logged into the computers remotely

I've decided I want to discontinue the home network I setup on my laptop (XP
sp2), as the host. File and print sharing is off, but I want to ensure that
the service is totally stopped for security over the internet.  Is there a
way?  If not, should I be concerned?

I've added a new Presario/Sempron running XP Home SP 2 to my home LAN.
Unlike every other computer I've added, this one is hidden to other computers
on the LAN and even to itself when looking at the Network Neighborhood.  I
can access it by running //ComputerName but when I walk up ...

Does XP professional SP2 include a function like the files and folders
sharing in Win98 where a password is given to the share so that only those
who know the password can access.
Application: 10 users (pc's) on a network who want to store private files on

I've just added my new Dell PC to an existing Hub on an MSHOME network.
I am able to log into the new machine and browse the internet using the new
machine, but when I try to access any of the other machines using My Network
Places I can see all of them but cannot access any of ...

I clear my history going to tool,internet option and clear, but they are a
few web sites that still there and I can not delet them,
What I can do??

I am experiencing the following:
2 PC's with XP Pro SP2 on a LAN.
Both PC's have their D drives (partitions) shared with Share
permissions set to Everyone full control and NTFS permissions set to

HELP!
A couple of days ago, spyware and a trojan was inadvertantely downloaded to
my computer. I tried my best to clean it out, but today, more has been
downloaded. I know that these malicious programs have opened up "back doors"