When you are sharing files from one computer (not a file server, this is a 3
computer share) and that computer is going to shut down you used to get a
warning that someone had files open and do you want to continue to shut down.
It looks like in XP Pro that warning is no longer ...

Hello, If I have two PC's on a LAN behind  an ADSL router, how can I
configure them to individually access them via Remote Desktop from
outside ?
I know I must open a Port forwarding for port 3389 to these machines's

I have been using ICS on a home network successfully for a couple of months
now, but in the last week, a problem has appeared. Two laptops that connected
successfully via wireless (Netgear WGT624 with DHCP disabled) previously now
cannot get a valid DHCP address from the DHCP ...

On a peer network with an XP Home machine and an XP Pro machine that has a
DVD burner,  I wanted to use the XP Pro machine's burner to back up files
from the XP Home machine.  So I enabled sharing for the DVD burner drive and
set Permissions to allow Full Control to Everyone.  With ...

I have keyword blocking enabled on my router to block but something yahoo
does with its redirection makes it so I can't click on links from a yahoo
image search. Even when my search is not relevant to any keywords that are
blocked. Google seems to handle it better because google ...

Following my previous 2 posts, can anyone help with the following questions:
1. I have two computers, a desktop and a laptop,  that I normally connect
with a wired network connection for the purpose of file and printer sharing.
The printer is is connected to the desktop.

I just would like to introduce myself. Im wayne and am an MCP (2000) A+
network+. I have just started a web-page with how to's for win2000 and
some other more general windows info. Its kinda in its formative stages
at the moment. If anyone has any suggestions on content I'd love to

I just got a new PC and to get my files mover over to the new computer, I
created a Workgroup and hooked up my old computer. I'm finding from
Microsoft that sharing of the "Documents and Settings", "Program Files", and
Windows folders is not allowed (XP Pro), no matter what I try ...

i have time warner's road runner and a linksys wrt54g router.  I have
no trouble accessing the internet with my original computer, but i have
added a second computer in an effort to create a network.  I can't see
one computer from the other, or access the internet from the new

I have several XP computers at home which are connected by Wireless Lan
to an XP "file server" computer. It is a simple peer to peer workgroups
set up.
I can easily assign a different directory security access for each user

Hi, I have to administer a small peer to peer network of 10 PC's 1 of those
acst as a central file server. All PC's are running XP home. I discovered
only a couple of weeks ago that XP Home limits the number of direct
connections to a PC to 5 or something like that. so when all ...

I've a little LAN with two PCs connecteed with a crossed Ethernet cable,
I've succeeded in making the PCs see one another but I can't share the
Internet namely in order to enter Internet Explorer from the client PC I'm
forced first to connect to my provider from the server PC ...

My goal is to connect two XP machines using a cross-over cable to share
files between the two.
What I did:
1. Physically connect two XP machines (one XP home, the other XP

I would be so grateful for any help/advice offered for my dilemma as
follows:
I have a simple peer to peer network with 6 PC's all running legitimate
copies of XP Pro. PC 1 acts as a sort of file server. My company runs

I have an answer. To a problem I and many others have had and wanted to
share this new found information.
After 10 days and numerous hours spent troubleshooting by me.
Apparently my uninstalled Cisco VPN Client didn't uninstall fully. It