First - what ports does the admin share command use when issued from a
desktop.?
We have noticed that if we are in the same vlan, then we see the shares as
domain admin. When we go to another vlan, and issue admin share, we are not

I need to re-install XP Home on a laptop, but the CD drive is broken and
there is no floppy drive. I also cannot boot from USB.
The laptop's BIOS supports booting from LAN and has a PXE enabled network
card. My desktop system has a Netgear router which uses DHCP and I have TFTP

I have windows XP X64 along with an Intel dual processor cpu...
my problem is finding a ethernet card that will work with the 64 bit system
anyone out there have a solution?  I have checked all the major card makers,
d-link, linksys and numerous others...

This is a very odd problem that I am having.  I have a network domain with
one pc that will no longer log in.  This pc has a good cable, and confirmed
ip address (when logged in on local machine).
When attempting to log into the domain, I get the standard error that the

Hey all, not 100% that this is in the right place, mods please move if
incorrect.
I have a couple of users reporting that they are unable to access domain
resources while using VPN over 3G.

We just converted our broadband service to static IPs and I want to set up a
VPN link so two or three can work from home. The difficulty I am having is
that we have two routers. The first, provided by the cable company, contains
(hosts) the 5 static IP addresses. This then ...

I'm stumped.  Even after researching this on the web, I still can't get it to
work.
If, from my XP Pro box, I try to:
"net use x: \\xpcomputername\c$ /user:administrator" and then provide the

I have a HP Officejet Pro L7680 printer that a ethernet capabilities. I am
able to print wirelessly without any problems. It has a scan feature that
allows me to send scanned items to a network folder. When I go to My Network
Places on my Dell Inspirion laptop running Windows XP ...

Basic help please for an ageing, but willing to learn, non-techo!
I have a laptop with Windows XP Home and wireless capability.  If I open the
wireless key do I need a wireless modem or router or whatever they are called
(!) to access the Internet or is this only if there are no ...

My recently installed VPN connection causes one of my applications to act
like it is being blocked by a firewall. When I go to look at the ICF
properties on the Internet connection, there are no choices or tabs available
to make any adjustments in the property tab. All the ...

The problem I have is that it takes me 6-15 min to get anything
to come up on line.  I use a dial up (built-in modem - 56k) and the 'Status'
window cumes up ok.  Then everything stops!  My Windows Live touble shooter
goes through it thing and says I 'may have a port not setup ...

I am attempting to troubleshoot network issues on a large peer to peer
network with approximately 40 XP Pro sp2 workstations.
I do not understand the browsing service or Master browser concepts. I
wonder if we may be having issues because xp can only have 10 concurrent

I have a home network that consists of 2 PC's and 2 works Laptops.
Recently i have noticed a downturn in both my home computers and especially
my work laptops.
The setup is as follows BT line - connected to Linksys WAG54GS Router

In XP Pro is it possible to share a folder and set write permission on one
specific file?  Thanks in advance.
Jim

In my network places, I cannot view any computers, including my own. On the
other computer I see both and can access files as well. What is wrong has
baffilled me? It was working at one time. I've shut down any programs I
thought might affect it as well as to disable firewalls ...