When I connect an ethernet cable to my son's laptop the wifi connection
seems to stay on. How can I make sure that adsl goes through the lan and
not through the wireless connection?
Daniel

I have a small home network connected as follows:
- My Desktop (Server) wired
- My Laptop (Client) wireless
- One Printer (Canon i865)

I have a little home network on a 4.0 server which used to work fine.  XP
problems necessitated a clean install.  Ever since then, my XP machine will
not recognize any user that has been granted administrative rights except
for the Administrator.  I have created new users to no ...

I have 3-desktops tethered and 3-laptops wireless all with current XP home
sp2 except for 1-(evil) Media center edition. Internet is sweet and happy
with all running great. Files share between us all resiliently. Question is:
On different computers in the "My Network Places" ...

Is it possible to put a password on a share that is on an Windows XP home
computer, or any other way to allow only certian users to use the share?

Hey all need some thoughts
We have a client that has a simple file sharing with xp home between 2
machines and running simply accounting 2006 pro
machine1 is the main machine and sharing the simply database file

Not sure what's going on, but I have a range of IP addresses I can't ping.
They are in the range of 169.254.241.whatever. I try to do a "tracert" and I
can't even ping my local server using that address. Any other addresses seem
to work okay.

Hope someone can help..
I am trying to set up a small home network.
I terms of hardware I have:
A DSL wireless/lan modem/router.

Host laptop (winxp) is ok for emails and internet using  broad band.  It is
also ok to utilise files on second laptop (winxp) and the remote printer.
They communicate through a Belkin five port router and two lengths of Cat5e
cable.  Second laptop will access shared files on host ...

I have a home PC (running XP home) connected to the internet through a
Linksys router & cable modem. I have a work laptop (running XP Pro) that
connects to the internet through a wireless connection to the router & cable
modem. The laptop connects to my work through a VPN (which ...

Is it possible for a this Cat 5E cable to deteriorate and contribute to the computer
going into an automatic reboot at power on?
I have had the machine into the shop where it was examined for a couple of days and
it started properly each time. I included my mouse and USB external ...

I have us the instruction found in the following web page :
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/northrup_03may16.mspx
to set up remote access to my computer (2 of them actually) which worked
great and is wonderful.  However ever since I did this on both ...

I'm having problems accessing a particular shared folder on a Windows 2000
server from a Windows XP Pro laptop.  The laptop and server are in differnet
domains and different subnets.
I can setup a share on the server and access it from the laptop without a

I am in the Balkans and my ISP has given me information for one IP
address in order to use their services.
I want to switch to a different computer, using the same information,
and use that computer to access the internet.  But when I enter all the

if any one has had this problem please read this, it doesnt make a lot
of sense but it works for me and after having such hassles i felt i
must post my dilema/fix for all to see and maybe when it happens again
to me ill be able to search the usenet and find it...lol