Up until recently i had one pc in my house which i had been adding hard disks
to in order to handle more and more storage space.Therefore one of the disks
has XP home edition on and the rest are just NTFS file system for storage.I
recently got another pc which came preinstalled ...

I have Ad hoc connection between two computers, but don't have ping :/
Addresses of PC1 are
IP address: 192.168.0.5
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

PLEASE HELP:
I can not get an ip address through DHCP, I have tried everything.
I have a laptop with an onboard network card and a home user lan with 3
other users who are having no problems (I am an IT technician and setup the

Hi,  I have a new PC with XP Home installed and fully updated.  We conect to
the internet via a dial up modem and after a few minutes work (this does vary
from instant to 10 mins after connection) the PC just freezes solid.  There
are no error messages, it jst stops dead.  We ...

I would like to set up a wired network at home (across walls) with the best
type of cable possible, trying to delay any future works and having good
performance already. Could anybody tell me what cable to choose? I was
thinking about CAT 7 (10 gigabit Ethernet) altough I am not ...

I have two Windows XP Pro SP2 PC's connected to each other via a crossover
ethernet cable. Each originally had only dial-up access to the Internet.
Recently purchased high speed access via cable, but had to use a wireless
(Linksys) router to get the access to these two PC's. Each ...

My friend has a Dell desktop that is running Windows XP Home edition. It also
has the cable modem connection to the internet. He also has a Linksys
wireless router for the laptop. He also has a Dell Laptop that was running
XP. He was able to connect to the internet & share files ...

Can someone point me to a primer on setting up an advanced network on
XP?  the microsoft site was not helpful.  here is the issue I am
struggling with:
I have 2 computers, one with xp media eddition, one with XP pro.  I

I have 5 computers on my network call "workgroup"  All of a sudden I can not
view the workgroup from my workstations?  I don't think it could be a
workstation problem because its happening to all of them.  
Any suggestions?

I am using XP home with sp2 updates.  I downloaded BCwipe from Jetico and
used it to wipe my free space on my c drive.  Unfortunately now I cannot get
online at all although my wireless card and even when directly connected my
computer sees the connection.  It just will not get ...

I have a setup that I would like to try, but I am having some trouble.
I have two machines both running Windows XP. My main machine will be
for performance with striped disks, high end vid cards, etc. My second
machine is the fault tolerant server with RAID 5 array and all the

I have an existing workgroup network with 3 NT machines, 2 win98 machines,
and one XP machine.  They all communicated together with a hub and lan modem
which was the DHCP.
Last week I changed to a DSL modem and a new switch.  The DHCP now comes

I set up a DC, DNS, DHCP Server with a lone Windows Server 2003 machine.  My
2 client computers (both Windows XP Pro) join and log on to the domain with
no problems, but cannot connect to the internet.  The server machine connects
to the internet with no problems.  The server ...

I have 2 questions that may or may not be related.
First is that after some messing around trying to connect to a laptop, my
std network connection from my XP Pro desktop to another PC (in this case WIN
98 SE) has stopped working.

Hi people,
I am having some serious problems networking and I am now at the end of my
teather.
I have had my pc connected via lan with my laptop (both running XP) fine