I currently have 4 pc's with xp pro. I have a workgroup with a belkin wired
router. I would like to turn one of my pcs into a server. Is this possible
with a router etc?
Could you please tell me how or direct me in the right direction.

We just recently signed up for cable high speed via the folks over at
Time Warner. We have two computers but when the guy came my girlfriend
only had the tech set up one of the computers.  We have a smc router
and TW  set us up with a motorola modem. Now the problem is we can not

I've got a VPN set up.  Machine in South Carolina is the VPN host, and
I am connecting from Florida.  Both are XP Professional SP2 boxes.
The VPN is working fine, to my knowledge -- I had to put the host
computer in the router's de-militarized zone since it couldn't do GRE

Hi, need some help.
I'm running Windows XP Home on my desktop and laptop, I have Road Runner
and I'm using a Netgear wireless 4 port router and a Netgear  PCMCIA card.
The dropped connections seem to occur when I run Google Maps. I just

Win XP SP2 stand alone PC gives an error when trying to update with any of
the time servers in the diaklog accessible from Internet Time.
time.windows.com time.nist.gov etc all give message
An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com

Problem:  unable to connect to a single web site (www.linkedin.com;
69.25.56.150).
Summary:  I have no idea if this is at all possible ... it seems as if there
is something preventing HTTP traffic to and from IP address 69.25.56.150 on

Hello,
I am using Windows Xp pro SP2 as a client to connect to Windows Server 2003
domain. i also have windows 98 machines as clients in same domain.
While i have setup domain on win 98 machines so every time while logging

Hi,  I've been reading though the blog so I know lots of people experience
this problem.  For such an essential service why has Microsoft made it so
difficult.  I remember being able to share files easily on my BBC micro at
school and that was over 20 years ago.  

I try to run the network setup wizard on my computer but when I'm finished
it doesn't seem to connect properly. Then I try running it on the other
computer that I was going to connect to the wireless network and it says no
wireless device connected but how come I can use the ...

I'm temporarily using a free ISP while on vacation.
I can see the connection icon at lower right, and bytes are being sent and
received.
However, neither Internet Explorer or Firefox believe that there is a

I working right now in Brazil and have a 550 kbps broadband
connection. The internet reaches the computer through a modem at
present.
However, having recently acquired a second computer we have tried to

We are haveing a problem with windows XP computer trying to map a drive to a
Windows 2000 server.  The process will fail unless you change the system time
up 1 hour.   All dst patches have been applied, and the time on both the
client and the server are correct.  This does not ...

I have four PC's running XP Pro in wired peer to peer network, all have the
same workgroup name. At times one or all of the PC's cannoct 'see' the
others, if this happens I change the workgroup name on all PC's and once
again they can all 'see' each other. Its getting a bit ...

Ian:
Serveral questions:
can the server name have a dash in it like : main-server
Can't get MyLogOn to authenticate XP Home machines with a username

Me and my roommate have been running on the same wireless router for about 2
years now... we have the Linksys WRT54GSV4. As of recently we've been
experiencing really bad bandwith lag if one of the computers on our network
ran a torrenting program with actively downloading ...