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Creating a wireless access point Hey, Basically I'm trying to work out how to set up a wireless access point on my laptop. My laptop is on a wireless home network and I want to set up a mini open network. I have been planning on using a USB wireless dongle which can be used to create an access point and put the dongle in my laptop. There i... 21 Mar 2010 13:52
Downside to bonjour? Is there any downside to having apple's bonjour net service running? It seems you have to accept it to install iTunes for one. The little I've read about it it seems to duplicate functions already running fine on my network, or offer things I don't need. Is it hogging up any processor time or network bandwidth? I c... 21 Mar 2010 01:35
netbios and computer browser service I have had some problems of late with XP Pro (both machines ) seeing each other with Classic share setup (with pswds) . But I have gotten it to work (with limitations ). I can now connect by doing the \\RemoteComputerName\SharedFolderName in the explorer or by clicking on previous access shortcuts of the above sa... 21 Mar 2010 11:37
Iffy network connection I have a home wired/wireless network with 5 machines (Win 7, Vista and XP) that have been humming along nicely until recently. My main XP SP3 desktop (wired) has begun hiccuping when downloading pages from the web. IE tabs will have the little spinny thing while the page remains blank for minutes at a time. The... 21 Mar 2010 02:45
Unable to map network drive I'm trying to share a drive so that other computers in my network have access to it. I'm using XP Pro and went to Sharing on the drive, then clicked on New Share, and entered a share name. The problem is that that this computer is on a domain and a different workgroup than the rest of my XP computers. Is i... 20 Mar 2010 10:58
How can I look in a sharing folder of another computer? I have a home network of 4 computers - 2 WinXP, Vista, Win7. The network works normally. I can easily look in a sharing folder of another computer by my Total Commander. But I made a bootable BartPE CD. After booting from the CD I can get online and browse any sites around the world, but I cannot look in a near... 18 Mar 2010 16:40
Windows XP network connection lost I am running Windows XP SP3 connected to Windows Small Busuiness Server 2003. Ran disk cleanup and defrag on 3/11 night. On 3/12 morning I had an exception error on defrag and shame on me for not writing down the error message. I now have a red shield saying I am not protected, please turn on firewall. My f... 17 Mar 2010 00:19
sharing printer in xp I have a desktop with printer installed on it. Prints fine when connected through desktop. I want to use this printer wirelessly through my NetGear wireless router. When i go to add the printer, the wizard does not find the network. Any ideas on how to get me started and what i need to look for to make the Desk... 19 Mar 2010 15:32
MSMQ Installation: Error 0x433 Were you ever able to resolve this? I'm having the same problem and can't seem to find any information that will help. Thanks! brett_travis wrote: MSMQ install in Microsoft XP 03-Oct-07 Hi, I am trying to install MSMQ in Windows XP for use with another application. I try to install MSMQ through... 15 Mar 2010 15:51
netsh questions This is what I get on the following netsh commands, netsh lan> show tracing Registry access error 0x3 netsh lan> export profile folder=z:\Profiles Specified folder "z:\Profiles" is invalid. One or more parameters for the command are not correct or missing My questions are: What is the error 0x3 and how can... 15 Mar 2010 13:30
Cannot access shares on home network I have a 2 pc network connected via my DSL modem. A is my desktop cable connected B is my laptop connected wirelessly I can see both machines but cannot connect to shares. When I try I get the message "not enough server storage is available to process this command". I'm using WinXP pro SP2. I've run the network ... 15 Mar 2010 15:51
Internet Explorer 8 suddenly slows down to a "crawel" I have IE 8 on my WinXP Pro SP3 computer. IE 8 used to run faster than Firefox on my computer. But starting yesterday morning, IE 8 suddenly starting taking minutes to open up to my home-page. But the real slow down was when I tried to navigate to other web-pages. On some of my favorite web-pages , it would ... 16 Mar 2010 12:33
question On "some" MSTechNet pages ( both with and without being signed in) the pages do not have scroll ability nor do the page down or down arrows work? Is anybody else having this happen ? This particular one would not allow me to scroll down (but I have found others) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc963223.... 15 Mar 2010 13:30
Unstable network connection WinXP The problem is with Relatek PCIe GBE Family Controler, which is network card. We have used driver from MSI web sites and then we have replaced with newer driver from Realtek web sites, but with both of them we have observed same problem. After some time of running of network connection incoming packets stops co... 19 Mar 2010 16:41
Internet Browse Issue A user is running a Windows XP Pro computer in a domain environment. Approx. 30-60 minutes after logging on, the user will be unable to browse Internet websites via Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc. However, the user is able to ping those addresses successfully. At the same time, the following error appears in... 11 Mar 2010 21:22
network connections (Running win xp pro sp3, peer to peer workgroup, all nodes in same workgroup) Is there a way to get rid of unused (old config) network connections? Do they use any resources ? There does not appear to be a way to delete them. ... 11 Mar 2010 15:44
IP packet inside MAC packet? Hello I'm a bit confused about these two protocols. If i send a message from one pc to another in internet, is it first encapsulated into IP packets and after that MAC packets? I've understood that all information is always encapsulated into IP packets in internet traffic. IP packets are used in commu... 11 Mar 2010 02:24
VPN Question Not 100% sure if this is the right group, but here I go. We currently use pcanywhere to remote connect to other PC's in our offices which are spread out between other locations. I have a spare PC in my office - could I set it up as a VPN server, connect all other PC's to it so they are accesaable to each other i... 11 Mar 2010 12:20 |