Starting yesterday, every time software invokes the Windows Internet Connect
dialog, the connect process times out with error 676, "the phone line is
busy."
My ISP's (ATT Yahoo DSL) support team says that I should not be using that

Sometimes files I create/edit in a shared folder appear to have no
owner when accessed from other computers on the network. When this
happens, the files can be seen from the other computers, but cannot be
accessed/copied - the message that comes up is "access denied... etc.".

Is there a command that I can use to change the DNS servers in a DOS
environment in Windows XP?

Why is it that my DSL connection appears to be intact and I can access the
internet but my Local Area Connection indicates that there is limited or no
connectivity?  I guess that since I am connected and typing this message now
there really is no issue, but it seems to be a bit ...

I have NO idea whether this is the appropriate place to post this - if not,
maybe someone could suggest the right place?
For the last couple of weeks (and it may have been longer than that) I have
been unable to connect to ANY NNTP server on port 119 out of six different

Have a Windows XP Multimedia machine cabled to a Linksys wireless router
which connects to a notebook running Vista.  Using the XP maching I mapped
the C: drive on the XP to the network.  From the Vista machine I can see and
access all folders on the XP machine.  On the XP ...

I replaced my failed D-Link Wireless VPN router (DI-824VU) with a D-Link
DIR-625 router.  Since then, the only way to see domains / workgroups in "My
Network Places" is to disable the "Windows Firewall" on my XP Professional
SP2 laptop.

I have two computers on the same LAN. Both of them are with WinXP SP2.
I turned off the ICF on both computers but I cannot ping from computer A to
B. I can ping from B to A.
How can check where is the problem.

I have to restart my PC twice to be able to connect to the internet
it's so frustrating. I have bought new PC but cheap rubbish (AMD with
nvidia drivers). Installed XP. Sometimerestarting the PC even doesn't
fix the problem I have to uninstall and re-install the nvidia drivers

Adding a new Vista (32 bit) to an existing network with XP computers. When
installing the network printer port it refuses to accept the port with the
comment "the segment of the print server you select is different from your
computer". Printer is connected to the network through ...

I have a laptop that is configured for my office domain.
I also have a home network that has a workgroup.
I would really like to be able to access the storage on other computers from
my laptop, but can't figure out how to do that without disabling the domain.

Ok, here's the problem.  I have two computers connected via a router.  On
this machine,  in my network places, i can see the other computer but when I
attempt to access files I get this error:
\\(computer name)\(file name) is not accessible.  You might not have

No prob accessing PATA drives, though. Is there a fix for this? Thanks.
WinXP Pro SP2, simple sharing enabled, firewall's off.

I have two computers networked through a Netgear router. They both
have XP Professional SP2. The Internet is shared fine, and I ran the
XP wizard for setting up a simple home network, and both belong to the
"MSHOME" network. I did reboot both afterwards.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/using/tools/igd/default.mspx
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Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP