I want to setup an in house ftp server.  I've setup IIS and ftp
service before for an internal network so I'm happy with that. What
I'm not sure is how to open up the firewall for port redirection or
putting the server in the dmz. I have a basic vigour2600plus router

Well, guess
I Cant seem network two computers using a standard Cat-5 Cable. Someone
suggested a cross-over cable, what it one of these?

I have 4 computers,
3 laptops:
Me,(192.168.1.109)
Kristi (192.168.1.106),

Hi, I just build a winXP server that will function as my license
server at work running lmgrd from a mapped drive. Previously, when
running win2k server, I was able to create a local bat script and
setup a scheduled task to launch this bat script that will in turn

I currently have windows operating systems XP.
My network is a satellite link.
The RTT is about 500 ms and the bandwidth is 1 Mbps.
In UDP transfers, I can used all the available bandwith.

i am very new to networking and this may be a stupid question so here goes.
i have set up a home network using a rangemax adsl modem wireless router. i
have 3 desktop xp pcs wired to the router and a vista laptop connected
wirelessly.

I've been facing a problem with my wireless lan and I hope that
somebody might be able to help me out.
I'm using a Belkin Wirless Card on my Fujitsu laptop. Even though I've
entered the right WEP code, the status screen shows that there is

We are running Windows XP Pro with all of the patches installed.  We have a
network setup through a workgroup and we map drives to a Windows Server 2003
x64 server with a domain.  We only have to run like this for a few months so
we do not add the workstations to the domain...

We have some Windows XP clients connected as members of a Windows 2003
domain controler.
All the XP clients have the same local administrator password. For this
reason, any user logged as local admin could have access to all other

What's the easiest way to connect to another computer from across the
internet if their computer has been issued a private IP by there ISP ?
... the 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0 ...etc
Since private ip's are non routable whats the easiest way to point my

thanks everyone for the responses to other posts, I wouldn't have
been able to get this far without them...
I have 2 computers (Client, Server), 1 Hub, 1 Wireless router, and
would like to:

I noticed the default gateway was 68.x.x.x.x before, but after my pc
was attacked by some virus, i couldnt connect to the internet and the
default gateway changed into 70.x.x.x, later i called the network CS,
they just asked me to unplug and plug again, shut down and start, then

Okay, here we go.  I have a wired network in my house and a wireless network
through a linksys router.  I can't see the other computers on my wired
network and thus can't seem to share printers and such.
Where the cable comes into the house it goes into the modem first, then a

Hi, in our house we have rubbish satallite connection, so we've kept our
existing dial-up. We have two pc's (both running XP Pro SP2) and naturally
one of them is the primary computer from which both connections run.
However we frequently need to switch between dial-up and ...

I am having a problem using the ICS option and have tried to review as much
as I can find on the web, but still nothing.
Would like to use ICS with an ad-hoc wireless network (peer to peer).
1. Create Internet network settings - Works and machine 1 can connect to