Hello,
I need help understanding the steps to adding my laptop (WindowsXP Pro) to
my home network which already has two other computers running, both of which
are using W2KPro. For some people this may be a no brainer but I just sit
there looking at the WXP instructions and all I can do is ...blink. Can you
help?
Thank you in advance,
Joe Parrish

<SNIPPED> wrote in message news:418ecb7f_1@127.0.0.1...
| Hello,
| I need help understanding the steps to adding my laptop (WindowsXP Pro) to
| my home network which already has two other computers running, both of
which
| are using W2KPro. For some people this may be a no brainer but I just sit
| there looking at the WXP instructions and all I can do is ...blink. Can
you
| help?
| Thank you in advance,
| Joe Parrish

First, Joe, I'd strongly suggest not using your email address here...read
the following web pages

Munging
WHY: http://www.private.org.il/harvest.html
HOW: http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html
MORE: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/spam-faq/

Second, do you have the correct wireless hardware in your laptop (Centrino
technology, wireless adapter - either built-in or PCMCIA card)? And you have
a wireless router or access point installed?

If you have the hardware installed, then try the Home Network Setup Wizard
in Windows XP. Open "My Computer", then on the left, click on "My Network
Places", then "Set up a home or small office network". You may need to run
the "Set up a wireless network for a home or small office" as well (or
instead?) although I've never used it.

flomers@prodigy.net wrote in news:418ecb7f_1@127.0.0.1:

HTH

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/guidshrh.htm

Duane

<flomers@prodigy.net> wrote in message news:418ecb7f_1@127.0.0.1...
need more information...
do the other two computers using wireless also?
what of wireless speed? (802.11b/g, B and G can be mixed)

wireless router? or combo ICS + wired + wireless?

turn off any firewalls (including xpsp2) and turn off wireless encryptions.
once the wireless device drivers are installed, it should detect any present
wireless networks.

trial and error is never a waste of time.

-a|ex

Toolman Tim said:
First, Joe, I'd strongly suggest not using your email address here...

Thank you Toolman but what do you suggest? Setting up a proxy email address?
If so, can you tell me how to do that?
Thanks,
Joe Parrish

Yes I do have the correct wireless hardware as I have used it on the road at
Flying J and it works perfectly. Our wireless router is 2Wire through
SBC/Yahoo and it has been working flawlessley for the past year on our other
2 computers. I did try to run the XP Home Network Setup Wizard on my laptop
but without any success. The laptop is a Toshiba Satalite with a Windows 2.6
gig Celeron processor.
Joe

<flomers@prodigy.net> wrote in message news:418ee895$1_5@127.0.0.1...
| Toolman Tim said:
| First, Joe, I'd strongly suggest not using your email address here...
|
| Thank you Toolman but what do you suggest? Setting up a proxy email
address?
| If so, can you tell me how to do that?
| Thanks,
| Joe Parrish

I don't know anything about your news reader - News Rover. You must have set
up an account in your PC when you installed News Rover, and at that time you
put in your email address. So look through it's menus (and/or help files) to
learn how to modify your account settings. When you get there, find your
email address, then modify it as suggested in those web sites. The simplest
is to replace prodigy.net with prodigy.invalid.

This is a test to see whether I set up my proxy correctly per Toolman Tim's
suggestion.

That didn't work so I'll try this.

flomers@prodigy.net wrote:

I would imagine that he's suggesting just changing the name/address
*displayed* in your news client. Usually, the only restrictions on what
you can use are those of the news *server* used to connect. Some require
a valid address, some only require a valid form: ie
Someone@somewhere.invalid.
The 'invalid' bit is the most important part, as it will prevent the
accidental use of a real domain that might be spammed due to it being
'harvested' in usenet.
If you *do* post through a server that requires a 'real' address,
many people use a free account such as Hotmail, etc., as a 'throw-away'
spam-dump account. Alternatively, there are also resources such as
privacy.net that allow use of a number of 'real', but auto-reply
addresses (such as the one I'm using).
As for the actual configuration of your News client; I'm not
familiar with NewsRover, so I can't give you instructions. I suggest you
have a look through your configuration and tools settings.
If no one answers in this thread, you could also try in
news.software.readers (be sure to put the term [NewsRover] in the
subject line.
--
"Good luck."

flomers@prodigy.net wrote:
With News Rover open, click on the Configure menu, then choose the
"Identity" tab. With your newsgroup identity highlighted, click on the
Properties button. In the General and Usenet tabs change your info.

<SNIPPED> wrote in message news:418ef42f$1_3@127.0.0.1...
| This is a test to see whether I set up my proxy correctly per Toolman
Tim's
| suggestion.

Nope...'fraid not. Still showed your real email in the headers (and my reply
before I snipped it).

To the person who gave me the procedure to make a proxy name for Newsrover,
thank you!