Environment: Active Directory domain
My laptop successfully receives an IP address from DHCP and gets to the
logon screen. However, the laptop cannot be pinged and the logon process
never completes. The Windows XP firewall is not on, but since the laptop

My wife's laptop is suddenly not connecting to our router.
All the other PC's work fine.
The laptop shows that she is connected wirelessly with excellent
signal strength, but the computer doesn't show up on the router status

After typing ftp ftp-www.earthlink.net at the cmd prompt I get;
User <ftp-www.earthlink.net:<none>>:ftp myusername mypassword
ftp-www.earthlink.net
331 Password required for ftp.

I've got a desktop machine that is on a small lan, it can access
everything on that lan perfectly fine.  Loging into a domain,
accessing network shares, etc..  However it refuses to access anything
beyond the router.  The rest of the machines on the network have no

I am having an odd problem with a computer that I built and installed for my
dad.  He can get browse the web fine in most cases, but he cannot go to
www.yahoo.com. It seems that he can go to most other sites.  Here are the
pertinent bits of info that I can think of:

OK! I have a router that feeds a local wired & wireless network with several
PCs including one running XP which is on the wireless side. I want to add a
second NIC to the XP machine to allow some non-wireless capable devices to
be on the local network and access the web through ...

I have a network attached storage drive and can not get my photos to run from
the "My Photos" screensaver. I can view them from both machines on the
network, but screensaver won't recognize. Any way to get around this?

I recently set up the server in our small business office.  Everything went
well until I noticed that the server created new profiles for the same user
on the same client computer.  I know that I can just copy all of the files
over, but I would prefer to just merge the two ...

Back on Win2000, when connecting an external device such as a USB drive or CD
drive, the drive mapping went to the next available drive.  Say you had a C,
D and E drive, if a USB memory stick was connected, it automatically mapped
to F, as next available.

I dont know if this is the right area to post this but I'll give it a
shot:
I have an office that has around 15 computers that I have in a peer to
peer type network, we do this becaues we have one computer that has a

I need help accessing files on my home network.
Background:  My two computers at home are networked together using a Linksys
wired router (BEFSR41).  Everything worked fine until I had problems with
both computer (unrelated to network) and had to reformat both computers.

All of a sudden, I cannot play Youtube videos.  I have tried to look around
in some of the settings but did not find anything yet was causing them to b
blocked.  I am asked to install the new adobe flash player but I have done
that several times with no success.  I have several ...

Hi all...
I was asked yesterday to have a look at a home users machine because
he was having problems browsing the web and collecting his email even
though his internet "was on".

I just got a new laptop. It runs Vista Home Premium and is wireless. I'm
trying to connect over a network so that I can use the printer connected to
my Desktop which is running XP home edition.
I got the network connected and set up but whenever I try to connect to the

i am kind of new to this and was wondering is it hard to patch my two
computer together through an rj45 crossover and two lan cards. i would also
like to be able to make it so i can access my main machine and its programmes
through the second, i spose it would be like using it as ...