When you turn on file and printer sharing, both file and printer sharing are turned on. Is there a way to turn on printer sharing only? by default, c$ is always shared on windows XP pro, I am not sure about vista/windows 7 home premium. So there is some security risk with file sharing, while there is less risk with printer sharing. The PCs are behind the firewall, however, there is a...

Hi I have an AD with 2 Win2003 Servers as PDC and BDC. My problem is with 1 Vista Enterprise SP1 machine that I have as a Print Server. Almost all my clients are Windows Vista Enterprise SP1. My print server spools the jobs as a wrong user.

Hi I have an AD with 2 Win2003 Servers as PDC and BDC. My problem is with 1 Vista Enterprise SP1 machine that I have as a Print Server. Almost all my clients are Windows Vista Enterprise SP1. My print server spools the jobs as a wrong user.

Hello, I've seen this issue posted before but I've never seen the resolution. When I try to connect to my company's VPN I get an error 812, not able to verify the user. What is the work around? Thanks much...

I have a laptop and I'm trying to find out if I can use it at Starbucks and Panera and if so how? Do I need any special software or do I just connect to theirs? I don't understand how it works...obviously.

I have a laptop and I'm trying to find out if I can use it at Starbucks and Panera and if so how? Do I need any special software or do I just connect to theirs? I don't understand how it works...obviously.

Upgraded from RC2 to RTM a week or so ago. Networking was working fine for a week and then after a reboot the network is no longer accessible. Network adapter reports: "Unidentified Network" and "Access: Local Only". Trying to renew DHCP fails and the adapter gets assigned a private IP (169). Disabling/reenabling the adapter makes no difference as does uninstalling and re-installing...

One of my computers has suddenly become unaccessible to the network. Laptop #1 XP SP2 Laptop #2 Vista Home Premium Laptop #3 Windows 7 Home Premium Desktop #1 Windows 7 Enterprise Desktop #2 XP SP 2 All connected and working previously - suddenly the XP Desktop says "MSHOME is not available. You might not have permission to use this network

Hi all, I have a network with a Vista and an XP computer. I have created a "transfer" share on the Vista machine that I want to use for reading and writing from the XP machine. The user names and passwords are different between the computers, so XP prompts me to enter user name and password whenever I access the folder. When I enter the correct info, everything works - I can access and write to...

Hi all, I have a network with a Vista and an XP computer. I have created a "transfer" share on the Vista machine that I want to use for reading and writing from the XP machine. The user names and passwords are different between the computers, so XP prompts me to enter user name and password whenever I access the folder. When I enter the correct info, everything works - I can access and write to...

I was noticing odd disconnects running networked application on my laptop since installing vista on it. After quite a bit of delving, what I'm seeing is this. I'm using ping as a way of checking for network connectiveity, it is a basic but seemingly effective way of seeing how well I'm connected. When I test my connection by pinging a known machine from vista I get a pretty consistent...

hi, here's my problem, and i don't think it's unique, as i've been researching it for a year and a half since i got my vista laptop (Vista Home Premium 32bit with SP2). i lose internet connection. sometimes often, sometimes not, but eventually do. wired or wireless. anywhere, not just my home. i travel extensively, and i'm on wifi and ethernet in hotels all over the country. it's always the...

I have a wired home network set up with 1 pc and 2 laptops using vista and 1 pc using XP. I have a Dell AIO printer linked to the XP PC and have just installed a new Epson printer to the Vista PC. Here's my problem - all PCs and laptops recognise each other and recognise both printers. Both PCs and 1 of the laptops are connected to both printers but 1 of the PCs will not connect to either...

I was able to set up both of these machines so that they could see each other on the network, but my XP machine will not see any files in the Vista Machine. When I double click the Vista machine with the workgroup computer section, it takes it a bit, and then says that the path is not available. The Vista machine ID was populated on it's own when I clicked on to view network computers, so...

We'd like to be able to access files and print from both PCs. Is there a tutorial (preferably official) on how to do so when we're dealing with 2 different OS?

We'd like to be able to access files and print from both PCs. Is there a tutorial (preferably official) on how to do so when we're dealing with 2 different OS?

Thought I'd posted this before but can't find it. I have 1 PC and 2 laptops on Vista and 1 PC on XP. There are 2 printers connected to the 2 PCs, all the computers are linked to a home network. Here's my dilemma - whilst both PCs and 1 laptop are connected to both printers I cannot get one of the laptops to connect to either printer. It recognises both printers but when I try to add them I...

Thought I'd posted this before but can't find it. I have 1 PC and 2 laptops on Vista and 1 PC on XP. There are 2 printers connected to the 2 PCs, all the computers are linked to a home network. Here's my dilemma - whilst both PCs and 1 laptop are connected to both printers I cannot get one of the laptops to connect to either printer. It recognises both printers but when I try to add them I...

how can I migrate from windows vista to windows seven the newer version of windows. thanks for your answer