About a month ago I upgraded my motherboard, videoboard, and RAM.  I repaired
Windows rather than doing a clean install.  I've since got almost everything
working well on the machine except I'm not seeing my workgroup.  I can't see
the printers that are connected to another ...

My network was recently ugraded to a Netgear Rangemax N model, to which two
computers are directly connected, one runnng Windows XP SP2, the other
Windows 98SE.  There are three other WIndows XP SP2 and two Windows Vista
Home Premium computers also connecting wirelessly, with new ...

I recently cleaned a lot of crap and useless files from my hard drive.  
Everything is great, except my internet connection is not as good as it was.  
Some programs cannot connect to the internet, while others work just fine
(for example, IE works, but Firefox does not).  How can ...

Hi, i have a doubt, i want to set up in the same machine two different ip
addresses for two user profiles both of them exist on the same domain.
(when logging in with user1 to have an ip address and when logging in with
user2 to have a different ip address, same gateway, subnet ...

I have 6 computers CAT5 hardwired to a home network with a cable modem, a
router, and two switches. Every few days, one of the computers loses its'
internet connection. This is completely random (which computer and/or when).
At one time or another - all of them have done it and ...

I am trying to play a LAN Rally game with my sister.
both computers have a 100 mpbs connection to each other.
when I play with her the game lags. all pcs can handle the game. it just
lags.

We have a small peer-to-peer network at work, about 16 PCs, a mixture of
Windows XP Pro, XP Home, 1 W2K Pro, and a couple of Win98 machines.  I want
to use my personal laptop, which is part of my home peer-to-peer network to
access a folder on a Windows XP Pro PC that has simple ...

From a technical standpoint, does Windows use UNC names any different than
drive letters for shared folders?
Which is preferred?

i have windows xp pro pack 2 running and its also a router for older pc's,
older pc is runinning a webserver, i can acces it internal but i want to
acces it external, some how i cant get to forward port 80 to the webserver on
my xp machine, please advice

from my event viewer:
this is the most common: 11 times in less than 12 hrs." Your computer was
not able to renew its address from the network (from the DHCP Server) for the
Network Card with network address 001217D1F794.  The following error

I have two small WORKGROUP networks, about 6 machines in each: network
10.0.0.0/24 and 10.0.1.0/24 at different sites connected by a VPN.  Hosts on
each network can see hosts on the other network _only_ in terms of IP
address.  How can I allow the two networks to see each other ...

My friends connected 2 XP Home to a linksys router for months.  Recently this
small network failed.  Over the phone I tried to help by enabling NETBIOS
over TCP/IP (it was set at default with LMHOST enabled); it didn't work. I
then diabled the XP firewall.  After this, the 2 ...

Hi all, exellent group and a great resource. Here's my problem:
I have 4 systems:
File Sevrer: XP pro SP2 file server. Has 3 hard drives all setup for
sharing the root drive with the following computers

I have two Windows XP SP2 laptops, but I can't print documents
wirelessly (or using Ethernet cables) with my colour laser printer/
copier/scanner (Epson AcuLaser CX11N), which has a USB port and an
Ethernet port.

I have an XP pro SP2 which I'm trying to connect to a tablet PC,
peer-to-peer, with anEthernet cross-over using a realtek NIC on the XP.
They both have a workgroup named MSHOME.
On the tablet, under Explorer>MS Windows Network, there are entries for both PCs.