For all of you "techies" out there, before I even go through the fixes, do NOT waste your time with the Alternate IP configuration options on the wireless adapter. THEY FLAT DON'T WORK AT ALL in Vista. If you have a wireless access point, and you KNOW it works on other computers, but you get a "local only" message from Vista, the built-in DHCP router in your Wireless Access Point probably...

In my network connections, in addition to the normal stuff (TCP/IP 4 and 6, file and printer sharing, etc) I am seeing "Reliable Multicast Protocol". Can someone tell me what this is? Thanks for any information

Hi I have a small home network with two computers, one Windows XP Home Edition and One Vista Home Premimum. I while ago I had to reload my Vista computer and I lost some of my network connectivity. I can print to my windows xp computer so connectivity is there in some form. When I go into network and control center I can't see other the other computer on my network. Names and domain appear...

Until yesterday network consisted of 5 PC's (3 running XP Pro, 1 XP Home - a little netbook, and 1 Vista Home Ultimate). 3 of the PC's connect via wireless, 2 by ethernet. Internet connection is via ADSL2 and the modem acts as the router. Other things on network include a Print Server and a Buffalo LinkStation Mini network storage. Until yesterday everything working fine - all PC's could...

My PC is a modern one (built the start of this year) and has an onboard Intel 82556DM-2 network card which has the latest driver installed, version 9.8.20. The network works as normal all of the time when the PC is being used, but after the PC has been idling for a long period (it automatically locks after 20 minutes), the network will appear to lose some level of connectivity to the...

I have several users who connect to the network through vpn. this morning one of them complained that his vpn wasn't working. so I tried to connect using vpn and connected just fine, but I couldn't remote to another server on the network, or browse to another server or computer. I verified that this was actually the problem this user was having. and also found that another user was also...

Sorry but I've started a new thread as my original one is not on this first page any more. I have tried a new cable & also swapping USB ports on my speedtouch modem but still have this problem. This is the result of ipconfig but don't understand the computer jargon. Is anything wrong here? Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 154: Media State . . ....

Sorry, are you calling yourself a network engineer?? I am staring at the permissions on computer A: it says this folder is shared with everyone and everyone has full control/ownership/chattel rights ad nauseum. The folder even has that idiot sharing icon. And yet . . . Computer A will not allow any other computers to access this folder. Vista networking is entirely secu if...

We have had one administrator using Vista since the start of the year. Now we want to bring Vista into use for a group of restricted user accounts, and by that, I mean that they aren't power users or administrators or anything like that. It seems clear to date that MS has put a whole pile of extra security stuff into Vista that just makes it that much harder for a domain administrator to...

Hello all - I've come across this site on a number of searches trying to figure this one out: Vista Business 64 bit or the software I'm using in vista is constantly checking the network and I can't stand the delays anyone. At first I thought it was the software - Adobe illustrator and Photoshop CS2 which is not officially designed for Vista but still runs. The problem is similar to the delay...

We have been having an issue with a Vista Ultimate desktop cutting off its shared folders from the other computer. Only a reboot fixes it and Vista will not complete a shutdown and has to be powered off. We are getting the following error message each time this happens. Any idea how to fix this problem? Event ID: 4226 TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of...

I'm trying to setup my laptop to act as a portable router in situations where I want to create a wireless access point where none are available. I'd like to avoid having to carry around an extra router, especially as decent portable routers with bridging/repeating functionality are hard to come by. I've had success setup up a wireless adaptor on the laptop as an adhoc network and using ICS to...

Hi, I am not able to create a shortcut to a application on a shared network folder. On a XP machine it is no problem, but it is not possible on a vista machine. The server is windows 2008 in a workgroup. I think this is a security problem and hope somebody has a solution. Kind regards

I have no need of mobsync.exe. All it does is thrash my HD. I've turned off all offline file caching I can find for IE7 and my Lan. But it still keeps popping up. I have a 2 machine network. XP SP2 on one machine, Vista Home Pemium 32 bit on the other. I notice that when I right click the shared folder for the XP machine in my Vista Network explorer page and click Properties, the check box to...

I recently purchased a new laptop with vista and to get my wireless internet working in my aprtment I had to switch from WPA to WEP, but now when I go somewhere else and wish to access the internet it doesn't work. I have tried switching back to WPA but it still doesn't seem to work. Either way it can't be right that I have to switch from WEP to WPA whenever I want to access the internet...

I'm using a Linksys DMA2200 MC extender since quite a while, in combination with a Vista Ultimate PC. Never had an issue. Since a few days, the MCE has lost the connection with the PC and requests a new set up. When doing that on the PC, MC reports that it can't find the extender. I have disabled both windows firewall and Norton 360v2's firewall but the problem remains. UPnP is enabled....

Below is my followup to the thread "can this router be bad?" Jack (MVP-Networking). wrote: Hi While connected through the Router check the Router's WAN port configuration make sure that it set correctly as per your ISP. If the ISP uses a MAC number for authentication make sure that the computer's MAC is cloned to the MAC entry ( http://www.ezlan.net/broadband.html ). If No valid...

I am using the DirectoryEntry class to enumerate all the workgroups on a network (there are only two). Pretty simple VB code. Dim de_domain As New DirectoryEntry() de_domain.Path = \"WinNT:\" For Each domain As DirectoryEntry In de_domain.Children() ..... Next It works well. In the future I will be taking this program into a

windows vista home basic on laptop connected via wired ethernet to broadband modem router. Works fine, but when I'm finshed, it will not shut down. Shuts down okay when connected wirelessly. It's annoying!

I am attempting to configure my Vista Toshiba Tecra laptop with a static IP. When I go to Network Connections there are no connections listed. This is always true when I'm using the LAN, WiFi, not connected to anything. More specifically, the card works fine with DHCP, but I need to do a custom config for one of my locations. How do I make the connections actually show up? I found a few XP...