I am trying again am I posting in the worng news group?
I have a workgroup hooked up to 7 machines. One machine serves as
a"file server" and has one Folder with many subfolders under it set to
be a share for everyone.

We had a power outage last week and since then have been unable to access our
local network through a router. Both of us can access the internet through
the router.
One computer (this one) is XP, the other 2000. It seems to be the 2000 that

Here's the situation:
1)We had some internet service problems, and have recently replaced our
cable modem...
2) When connected directly to the PC, there is no problem accessing the

I have an XP Home machine that gives me a dns
error whenever I try to use IE6.  I have tried two
different ways to connect to the Internet: one
through my local lan and two through a dialup

I'm using Kerio Personal Firewall on an ICS config. Do I
need the firewall loaded on both computers or just the one
connect to the web?

This is very bizarre problem w/ XP Home & Firefox.  This post was going
to be longer, but it's probably easier to just ask me if you need more
info.
I use dial-up and recently tightened security on local user accounts,

Went to my help and support, did an analysis check for network connections,
and my Default Outlook Express  pop.mts.net / smtp.mts.net  failed the ping,
how do I fix it ?

i have the outlook o/ex.disabled and i want it back in my p/c/

Even though I spend some time on the web searching for the solution,
cannot find an answer.
I have a desktop and laptop and try to connect them both with network
cable.

I work on the Hardware repair side of IT, so my networking experience isn't
the best. I have a Wireless network using a Linksys WRT54G firmware Ver.
1.00.1
This setup worked for several months with no problems then, I was having the

I am running XP Home on my laptop. In the command window when enter ipconfig
/all, or even without the all, I simple get "Windows IP Configuration" as a
response. I used to get the detail. What has changed or what do I need to do
to get it back?

I want my laptop to join my home domain, but still be able to access
resources at work on a different domain.  I do not necessarily want to
join that domain, but want to use my home domain profile instead of
using a different local profile on the laptop.

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/9712/networkem6.gif
see above image
I have a long cable that has pairs of colors inside
that are twisted in pairs.

My laptop and desk macbine can at last communicate with each other but the
laptop (the client) cannot reach the internet.
All was fine until the system downloaded updates from Microsoft and
installed them -- and then - well, all hell broke loose!

Does pathping send ICMP packets. or does it still send TCP packets,
like windows ping does ?
What does tracert use ?