Posting this thread is the ultimate solution before I abandon until my next
format...My desktop running window xp servive pack 2 is connected with a wire
to a modem router(known brand and last model).I get internet. My laptop
running window xp servive pack 2 is connected wireless ...

I have an Acer 6460 laptop with wifi and lan cards, running xp sp2. I also
have a DLink DI-524 wireless router.
I have found the network performance to be somewhat eratic, so I ran the
network scan function in windows "help and support"

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printer running on desktop windows pro xp and want to share with laptop w vista

    I hope someone can help me with this. It is quite odd. I have two offices.
Office A and Office B. I regularly use VPN at both locations. Office A uses
SBS 2000. During a storm Wednesday, we lost power several times within 60
seconds. After that happened, I discovered that I could ...

I have a Windows XP Pro SP2 PC on a domain network. I'm having trouble
trying to map network drives to any shares on my server.
I can ping the server and all other PC's on the network, web browsing and
access to my Exchange Server mailbox on Outlook are working fine.

I have a four machine network, all machines going through a router that has
a SPI firewall.  I also have a software firewall on each machine.
My question is, do I need the software firewall on each machine?
Thanks for any replies.

1.  Please let me know how to set permission to use a printer attached to a
computer only to specified group/individual users under a LAN.  (OS Win XP
pro SP 2)
problem I have is when I share the printer other users send their print jobs

I have two desktop PCs. One using Vista Business The other using XP home with
service pack2 I have recently installed a switch to allow me to logon to the
the internet from either PC I have an ADSL ISP. From either PC using a direct
Ethernet connection through the Modem to my ISP ...

I have a home network with up to 6 PC/laptop/storage .devices present at any
one time.
Obviously all belong to the same workgroup and I have no problem browsing
the shared resources from any PC to any other PC...except I cannot view the

I am trying to add users to the administrator group on the local computer.
Going to computer management and then to groups.
Double clicking on the group administrators.
The locations only show the local computer, not the domain. So I can not add

On a complete clean installation of windows xp pro sp2 on a new
harddisk I cannot get the WLAN-connection to work properly. I use a
fixed IP-address (since DHCP didn't work for that notebook even before
the reinstall).

I am trying to use Remote Desktop Connection on my Windows XP Home laptop to
view my Windows XP MCE 2002 Desktop computer over the wireless network.
I went to the System Control Panel, Remote tab on the XP MCE machine and
checked the box for "Allow users to connect remotely..." I ...

O/S Win XP SP2 Home, IE6, ADSL router/firewall
In My Network Places, when I used to double click `homepages`, I went straight
to a listing of the folders and html pages related to my website.  I recently
updated my website and deleted all the old folders and html pages before

i made winsock-based web server for my own use, i test it with its ip
& port from my local computer, it is work fine.
But when i test it from internet (outside my network) it doesn't
work??