Network and Web

Effect of Jumbo frames on 100mbit network?
Most of the equipment on my LAN is running at 1000mbit/sec. I'd like to take advantage of Jumbo Frames. I have no problem setting this up on my PC's, but I'd like to know what kind of effect it will have on devices that are only 100mbit/sec capable, like my cable modem or old laptop? ... 9 Apr 2008 22:49

Mapped network drives showing in applications but not explorer
All, Wondering if someone could share some wisdom on this matter i have. On my machine at present i'm linked to two different network drives, one for the company shared documents and the other for personal work. If i try and open files from either of these drives within an application (i.e. Excel) i can brow... 9 Apr 2008 05:20

Pinging 192.168.1.x IP address returns wrong IP
I have a couple Windows XP Pro machines with most of the updates. I have 12 of them at remote locations. I am using Netgear's VPN client to connect to the main office for the remote locations to enter their accounting data. This has worked pretty well on several PCs. However, on a few of them, when I ping an... 8 Apr 2008 22:04

Home network and file sharing
Hello Everybody, My desktop has WinXP Pro SP2 while my brother's laptop has WinXP Home. Both computers have multiple user accounts for different family members. We both share internet by using a wireless router. My brother has his accounts on both, desktop and laptop, computers. Is it possible (in a home network... 12 Apr 2008 02:58

Slow Network Logon
Hello. I hope someone can help with the issues I have. Im having problems with machines taking up to 20 minutes to logon to the network, this does not affect all machines just random ones.(most machines) We have used a network sniffer to look at the traffic from the client machines and for some reason the client au... 9 Apr 2008 06:57

Access Denied, XP pro, SP2 5 machnes , Simple File and Printe
Thanks for that Brad That one scared me a little,,, :-) So I tried this one,, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881 it matched my scenario to a T and worked like a charm,,,,, now need to straighten out QBooks with the new Permissions,,,, Keeping PCs running shouldn't be this dificult,,,,,, ;-) Thanks a... 8 Apr 2008 13:13

Networking process causes continuous hard drive activity
I don't know is this info below is usable - I got from the Sysinternals Process Monitor. Sometimes it continues for hours. I saw my Hard drive constantly be used and tried this Process Monitor to figure it out - to hopefully stop it. But it's beyond my knowledge. You can see it repeats itself... Does anyone know... 17 Apr 2008 07:31

Slow Network Browsing - MS Office
Hi there, We have a small network, w2k Server and a combination of win xp Pro desktops and notebooks all with MS Office 2003. One of the notebooks seems to freeze up for a minute when trying to browse for an attachment using Outlook, and will regularly do the same when browsing for files from Word or Excel. It ... 8 Apr 2008 21:16

block network browse
hi I m new to this group , I have a querry that I have one net LAN connection and I have made ICS for my other PC via LAN card .Now I want block/restrict some sites/browsing of my client PC, so how can I do this plz suggest me . thanks ... 8 Apr 2008 09:58

Authentication prompt when UNC into XP Pro machine from Win2K mach
I have two cilent machines in a peer to peer network. One is a Win2K box (Client1) and another is a XP Pro box(Client2). They are on the same subnet mask and are able to ping each other. I have both firewalls turned off and have ensured that file sharing is enabled on both machines. Both admin accounts are n... 10 Apr 2008 12:53