We seriously need help making a Remote Assistance connection. We have some senior family members who really need our constant assistance, but we cannot connect. Here is a little background: FIRST, the connection is being made over the internet, with an invitation and password, not within a local network. SECOND, we can successfully make a Remote Desktop connection to each of the computers...

Hi Group, I fitted a NAS Drive to a customers Network: BT HomeHub, Dell PC running Vista connected wirelessly and 2 Dell Laptops also wireless the NAS is plugged into BT HomeHub. The customer had previously used an external USB drive connected to the Dell PC to backup to, I tried to change the Backup to the NAS drive, when I try to change the Backup schedule Vista keeps asking me for...

My desktop is a Win7 Ultimate system and laptop is Vista Ultimate. I've tired setting all the permissions for accessing certain drives on my Desktop (and laptop) but can't seem to access anything except the the usual Publich folders. At first, I was able to access an external, USB 1.5 TB drive, but as soon as I formatted from a FAT32 filesystem to NTFS, I could no longer access it--get an...

Hi... I have this two pc's with Vista. Between them I use SyncToy to, among other files, copy my Outlook 2007 PSF-file. To get this to work I have to turn on Network Recognition in the Network and sharing window. Else one pc can't communicate with the other. But after every restart the network recognition is reset to user defined. I have set all network sonnections to public, but still the...

Hi... I have this two pc's with Vista. Between them I use SyncToy to, among other files, copy my Outlook 2007 PSF-file. To get this to work I have to turn on Network Recognition in the Network and sharing window. Else one pc can't communicate with the other. But after every restart the network recognition is reset to user defined. I have set all network sonnections to public, but still the...

I have Vista Home Premium. I have set File sharing ON Printer Sharing ON. Network Discovery ON. With no password. XP can see Vista, but when I click on the share, it says Access is denied. \\Computername\Share is not accessible. you might not have permission to

Hello, I try to setup up a RAS connection via dial up line. As authentification type I have to use PAP. Everytime the authentification fails. In the system log I can see a error entry with the ID 20255. This says that the used authentification method can't be used because of a configured security policy.

Hello, I try to setup up a RAS connection via dial up line. As authentification type I have to use PAP. Everytime the authentification fails. In the system log I can see a error entry with the ID 20255. This says that the used authentification method can't be used because of a configured security policy.

Hi I'm having problems with Windows Sync working with Offline Files. The following are symptoms that I'm seeing. Unless otherwise noted, treat them as though they are completely separate items as they don't always occur together: 1. I'll find undeleted .TMP files left over after working with the associated Excel, Word, etc. file. These are left over even though the files and applications were...

Hi I have been trying to connect my pc to xbox 360 through a wireless network for weeks, the xbox finds my pc when the pc is plugged into it with an ethernet but cannot find it through wireless. all my housemates pc's connect fine through wireless. vista can find the xbox on the network map. -- the wilson

Have a small network I take care of with simple needs and they use Vista machines (yuck). Anyway, one of the machines is a 'server' sharing one folder. Every now and then this machine will stop sharing the folder for no apparent reason. Can go back and share it again no problem, but in a few months it will stop sharing it again as if it were never shared. It's nothing the user of the...

Have a small network I take care of with simple needs and they use Vista machines (yuck). Anyway, one of the machines is a 'server' sharing one folder. Every now and then this machine will stop sharing the folder for no apparent reason. Can go back and share it again no problem, but in a few months it will stop sharing it again as if it were never shared. It's nothing the user of the...

I am trying to share a vista with xp and it shares the folders only in public mode I looked at the online documents which states that it should be private. Any ideas. Thanks --

I am trying to share a vista with xp and it shares the folders only in public mode I looked at the online documents which states that it should be private. Any ideas. Thanks --

Setup is a wired/wireless router. I'm attempting to open a Remote Desktop connection to an XP pro machine (wired) from a wireless HP laptop running Vista Home Premium. When I try to connect, there is a pause of about 10 seconds and the Vista machine reports that it cannot complete the connection with a message that conveys nothing about why it failed. The strange part is that I have a...

Setup is a wired/wireless router. I'm attempting to open a Remote Desktop connection to an XP pro machine (wired) from a wireless HP laptop running Vista Home Premium. When I try to connect, there is a pause of about 10 seconds and the Vista machine reports that it cannot complete the connection with a message that conveys nothing about why it failed. The strange part is that I have a...

Problem, this is not a network sharing problem but networking the OS's may be the only way to solve this problem, here is the question; Client wanted Win. 7 on notebook to replace Vista H/B SP1, 1st 4 backup DVD's were made from the Vista sys., then the 3 DVD restore discs were created from recovery mang. New OS was installed (clean install), client wanted to start using MS outlook 2007 instead...

Problem, this is not a network sharing problem but networking the OS's may be the only way to solve this problem, here is the question; Client wanted Win. 7 on notebook to replace Vista H/B SP1, 1st 4 backup DVD's were made from the Vista sys., then the 3 DVD restore discs were created from recovery mang. New OS was installed (clean install), client wanted to start using MS outlook 2007 instead...

Have a small network consisting of one Win XP Media Center Ed. and one Vista home premium (and an Internet router). The Vista crashed and was restored to factory and apps reinstalled, etc. Each computer has dedicated IP address, and each runs a version of Norton Internet Security. They are in the same workgroup. Prior to the Vista problem, all was generall well. Now, the XP seems to...

Now you see it now you don't. Here's the scenario. When I reboot everytime, the gateway static IP address disappears. I have to manually enter it again. Everytime! I'm using Vista 32 Business SP2 on a Thinkpad X60s notebook. Why does this happen and what's the solution?