The Programs and Services listed in the Exceptions tab of the Windows
Firewall are "greyed out" and will not let me edit them.  I have Admin rights
so what's up?

I have a domain setup.  Some of the computers have xp professional, so
they can access the domain.  The other computers have xp home, so they
access the server files by joining a workgroup with the same name as
the domain.  This has worked well for almost two years.  There is a

I have setup a windows xp wired network comprising of 24 computers on 3 floors.
Each floor has a d link switch and connected to each other by a cross over
cable.The workgroup name of all desktops is the same and have given the ip
address starting from 192.168.0.x. The desktops of ...

I’m a bit confused.I can’t connect to my local network anymore.
I checked the following points.
SW =XP-prof  SP2
I already tried another port and cable on my router

Hi, I am currently running a dual boot of Vista and XP. I am sharing my
neighbors connection. The Connection works fine on Vista, but on XP I can't
get it to setup. It doesn't allow me to setup using connection wizard a
Wireless, connection. Any help would be great

Basically, just recently wiped hard rive and re-installed XP. When I try and
add a network place, I can't find the computer I want to connect to. It also
says '****** can't be found' when I type \\server\location (obviousy filling
in the fields accordingly).

i tried to use windows xp media center edition to connect to a windows xp
computer through a network and i cant because of access privileges or
something contact your admin is there something i did wrong i ran the network
setup wizard that worked fine but what did i do wrong

I have an XP/Pro laptop (all patches) that is behaving very strangely.
I can connect top ISP providers but can't run apps.
When I connect to my Linksys broadband router, ipconfig shows that i
get good IP addresses for my client, gateway, and DNS servers, but I

I have a 5 windows xp home and professional computers that have multiple
entries that show up when I look at my network places.  I know from what I
have read in the web and in this news group that the information displayed in
my network places comes from the master browser.  I ...

I have a server running 2003 and have set it up with RRAS.  I have been able
to access the files on the server using the servers internet
I.P.(\\71.113.xxx.xxx) from most remote computers.  For some reason at the
President of the company's house I cannot connect.  I can get a ...

I have 2 laptops both conected to a WLAN and able to share files via WLAN.
The problem when I copy big files (Gb-size) via the WLAN is that it takes
heaps of time. I have a crossover cable, both comptuers have Ethernet
connections, but:

Dear Experts,
Since XP does not use NETBEUI, therefore TCP/IP is quite a common protocol
to be used in Windows Networking.
However, for some reasons after installing some firewalls software such as

I have 3 computers hooked to a D-Link switch which also goes to a 5-port
router. These 3 can access each other, and have Internet access.  I have 1
computer plugged into the router, which also has Internet access but can not
access the network.  It is just 4 computers on a ...

Somewhere in february, one of my users got infected with the brontok
worm. Then another one. As standard, we use Antivir but it was clear
that it was not able to
prevent this infection. Now, i got a tip from a colleague to try

Recently, files and folders that are shared and were once accessible on the
network computers no longer are.  I've uninstalled and reinstalled security
software and closed firewalls.  Two of us still can't get into one computer
that we need to.  One of the error msgs. we get is: ...