is it possible to connect two home pcs' with windows xp home and windows xp
professional?

I have a dos program that we run under Windows XP and I need help with the
networking portion. The program calls up Reflections 1 for DOS and needs to
connect thru our VPN (Telenet). I'm not sure how to do this. I have a  
startnet.bat file created by reflection that runs ...

I have 2 different domain which is 2000 and 2003. In 2003 can see 2000 domain
in network negihborhood but can't access it. I can ping the ip address and
can build trust relationship. But in 2000 everytime I set a trust
relationship it seems that 2000 cannot see 2003 says that "it ...

I am currently using windows XP and I am having difficulties to find a
way to force all my internet traffic to go through my vpn... Basically
what I'd like to see is: if my vpn (pptp) connection is alive, then
all traffic goes through it, but if the connection drops, no traffic

I have a new HP notebook, three other XP pc's and a Netgear wireless router.
I want to add the Vista pc to my home network.
I have worked through lots of posts about XP/Vista networking without a fix.
I have installed the link-layer topology responder on all the XP machines, I

I am running Vista Basic, 512MB ram, 1.7ghz processor. I want to be
able to use my hotmail account in windows mail but it says i can't. I
have installed freepops but it doesn't seem to work. Any help will be
greatly appreciated

I need someone help as my internet connection only works in safe mode, when
you start it up normally it just says 'Aquiring network address' and doesn't
connect. I tried it with a ethernet cable and i'm in the exactly the same
situation.

This is a simple question for you all, but not for me, since I am new in
this topic.
How should I like a GPO to an OU?
Thank you for your response,

I have just installed a Fujitsu scsi drive and controller card on my
XP home machine. Until now I have been sending the machine to sleep if
I am not going to use it for a few hours or if I go to work.
Do people recommend leaving scsi drives on 24/7, or do you just power

Have LAN with DSL connection; typically two notebook computers are
connected/disconnected/reconnected using 802.11g. And the LAN has a
server that my girl friend likes to VPN onto.
I have acqiured a Compaq, Presario, model 5020; considering connecting

I have this router well configured but sometimes the icon in windows
system tray says connectivity limited or absent and after some
seconds
again connected, 100 Mbps. This behaviour happens quite frequently

I have 2 PC running WinXP (one on wired and one on wireless), I used the
Network Setup Wizard on both machines. I can see the workgroup on both
machines, I can access the PC (and all the shared folders) on wireless from
the wired PC. But I can not access the wired PC from the ...

My desktop's wireless has been working fine for months. Suddenly
(sorry, no more details, I'm not aware of any change or important
event *) wireless has stop working from my desktop; it does work fine
from my laptop.

I can't establish any connection outgoing on port 25, in other words I can’t
send email via smtp. My PC send TCP  packages with syn flag but doesn’t get
any replay. I try to telnet on different smtp servers and this problem steal
occur (while form other computers it works good). ...

I am using XP home SP2(NT5). When using NT4 I would store network ip
numbers in 'hosts'. I have windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file with
ip addresses for my network of systems. I am using 192.168.20.xxx.
part of hosts file is as follows.