I'm trying to install a D-Link DIR-615 wireless router and encountered the error message above. There is currently a DI-604 wired Ethernet broadband router installed between my cable adapter and my PC. Running Vista home. HELP please???? -- Ron S

Hi All, I have the strangest problem with Vista Business on my laptop. Here is the summary. I am not able to successfully ping this machine from others in the LAN. At the same time I can ping all machines and router on the LAN from this machine. I maintain connectivity to the Internet and use this machine for Remote Desktop etc. However no other machine is able to ping it and hence not able to...

I'm trying to install a D-Link DIR-615 wireless router and encountered the error message above. There is currently a DI-604 wired Ethernet broadband router installed between my cable adapter and my PC. Running Vista home. HELP please???? -- Ron S

I have a network of two computers. ComputerA, running Windows XP 32-bit has a shared folder in read-only mode called SFiles with a sign-on of CAShare and a password of ZXJK1122. ComputerB, running Windows Vista 64, in the Network entry of Windows Explorer shows ComputerA. When I expand ComputerA I can see the SFiles shared folder undereath and when I try to click on the folder it asks me for a...

I have a network of two computers. ComputerA, running Windows XP 32-bit has a shared folder in read-only mode called SFiles with a sign-on of CAShare and a password of ZXJK1122. ComputerB, running Windows Vista 64, in the Network entry of Windows Explorer shows ComputerA. When I expand ComputerA I can see the SFiles shared folder undereath and when I try to click on the folder it asks me for a...

1. How could I make it to become "Public and Internet"? It seems that Vi$ta is trying to guess the type connection by searching for a router or something. 2. When I configured the wired connection to use static ip, static DNS and static gateway, the routing was not working. Pinging www.google.com failed. The DNS was working, just that the packets did NOT take the default...

Hi, Maybe someone can tell me if I did something wrong? I am running Vista here at home and XP remotely. I set up a VPN network connection entry in the XP machine and followed the instructions at this URL to set up the Vista machine to be the server: http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Vista/PPTP/PPTPVPN.html

Hi, Maybe someone can tell me if I did something wrong? I am running Vista here at home and XP remotely. I set up a VPN network connection entry in the XP machine and followed the instructions at this URL to set up the Vista machine to be the server: http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Vista/PPTP/PPTPVPN.html

Hi, I have a Acer Acer 5315 series model ICL50 notebook running windows vista basic (Wilmar special from beginning of November)It has a onboard Atheros AR5007EG wireless network adapter Here is my problem it connects to my wireless connection stays connected for a few minutes open web pages ect then it drops the Internet connection.I can go down to the connections in the tool bar and

I haven't seen any posts to this group about this issue, and only one other post mentioned elsewhere. My problem is with Windows 7 offline files, but the other poster had the problem with Vista and I believe it is the same issue. Have an Excel 2003 workbook on a network share the is available offline. The network share is online (the computer is a desktop unit always offline, I am using offline...

I haven't seen any posts to this group about this issue, and only one other post mentioned elsewhere. My problem is with Windows 7 offline files, but the other poster had the problem with Vista and I believe it is the same issue. Have an Excel 2003 workbook on a network share the is available offline. The network share is online (the computer is a desktop unit always offline, I am using offline...

Thanks in advance for any help with my problems.. I have AT&T DSL with a 2Wire 2701HG-B Gateway. I am trying to share files using Windows Media Player 11 between 2 laptops (both Dell Inspiron 1525) and an Xbox 360. I am running Mcafee Security Center on both laptops. When I have WMP 11 search for our laptops they cannot find each other, but they can both find the Xbox. When I use the Xbox to...

Thanks in advance for any help with my problems.. I have AT&T DSL with a 2Wire 2701HG-B Gateway. I am trying to share files using Windows Media Player 11 between 2 laptops (both Dell Inspiron 1525) and an Xbox 360. I am running Mcafee Security Center on both laptops. When I have WMP 11 search for our laptops they cannot find each other, but they can both find the Xbox. When I use the Xbox to...

Hi Everyone, I am using a NAS for storing all my media files (photos, DVDs, music etc) and was interested in the possibilty of using this drive to stream the info around my house but all the systems I can find rely on a PC to at least facilitate this. Are there any systems that would be able to read the NAS directly on need the PC to be on? Also are there any systems that would take the...

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...

This is a good question. You may modify the registry. This how to may help: how to disable administrative share - http://chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8416&sid=73a1a479a9d9b1fbe9e4349bc7d25cbc -- Bob Lin, Microsoft-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on

wrote: 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? No, there isn't. But if you don't assign sharing to any folders and then grant other permissions to access those folders, they can't be accessed.

When I open MY Network, I cannot see any of my networked computers including the one (Office) I am working on. When I open My Network on the Kitchen computer and can see everything on the Network When I open My Network on the Garage computer I only see the Garage Computer icon All computers can communicate with each other. I ping each computer and I get back replies. I ran RUN and put in the...

When I open MY Network, I cannot see any of my networked computers including the one (Office) I am working on. When I open My Network on the Kitchen computer and can see everything on the Network When I open My Network on the Garage computer I only see the Garage Computer icon All computers can communicate with each other. I ping each computer and I get back replies. I ran RUN and put in the...

This computer is on Windows VISTA When I select Network icon on my desktop in Office Computer (name of one of my computers) so that I can see the other computers on my Network system, they are not visible including Office Computer. I have 3 computers at home. I can see all computers on the other two computers. I am using MSHOME as my workgroup and all computers are set for this. I believe...