This may seem a strange question to place in this forum but I think it is more network related than Office related. I have two XP machines that have a mapped drive to a share hosted on a Win 98 pc....

Does anybody have any ideas on this? Why is it that after the host computer Hibernates and wakes up, it can access Internet but the client computer cannot, unless host computer is rebooted. They...

Hallo, I am experiencing trouble with my Windows XP Home (german edition with SP 2) computer for a couple of days now. I have a DSL connection through an DSL-modem. My provider is T-Online. The...

If I ping www.microsoft.com from a cmd line I get; C:\Documents and Settings\Tim>ping www.microsoft.com Ping request could not find host www.microsoft.com. Please check the name and tr y...

I am trying to connect to a customer's network via Microsoft PPTP VPN. The symptom of the problem is the logon process hanging on "Verifying username and password" and then timing out with Error 721...

Hello experts: Is there an API (not WMI) allows me to set DNS for a particular network interface on Windows-XP ? Thanks in advance! Polaris

I am running a small home network with three desktop (yeah, each kid needed their OWN) computers and one laptop. One computer is hardwired to my Lyksys router and the others access the router via...

Dear All, How to update my windows XP Pro without using Internet access. There is any CD from microsoft ?

We have a windows 2003 (std edition) based server, which is occupied with 2 ethernet cards. We are trying to set that server to function as a router. When trying to Configure the Routing and Remote...

When I boot up my 98 PC which is networked to my XP PC I am asked for the Entire Network Password for MS Networking. This is a nuisance and is not required. How do I get rid of this? Blair

I have the same problem: my home network only has one desktop and one laptop both running XP SP2 but My Network Places on my laptop is extremely slow (30 to 60 seconds) and keeps displaying old...

I bought a used laptop and have put windows XP on it. Which is the same operating system as my other computers. The laptop network connection fails to communicate through my router (Linksys...

I use VPN Software (Nortel Networks Contivity VPN Client v 4.15) to connect to my network at work from my home computer. I recently upgraded to DSL from dial-up, but have been unable to connect...

Hi there. I have what must (?) be a simple problem, but it's got me stumped. It's to do with why I can browse, but not ping, my default gateway. The Home Network: Everything XP. Cable modem to...

I had to replace the server on our small, three machine, network. The server is "Basement", the other two are "Susan" and "Shipping". When I try to access the shared documents folder on Basement it...

I'm installing the software that came with the card. Driver installs correctly and I can use the Windows wireless network confiruation utility and I do get the card to work but when I try to install...

Hello. I hope this is the right spot for this issue... I have both an XP SP2 machine and a Win2K machine. When I use the Create Network Connection Wizard to establish VPN connections from these...

Hello - I'm getting a strange error when I attempt to start the IPSEC Services service. Here is the Event Viewer application entry: The IPSEC Services service terminated with the following...

I'd be able to connect to the internet for 10-20 minutes(it varies) whenever I restart the computer.. after that I just lose the connection....checked the event logs and found that Events ID 1-10...

I have a rather complex questions that requires some context...I'm running XP Pro SP2 on a custom computer...I had a major catastrophe and did a re-install using Drive Image and then a reinstall of...