We are using Netgear Router in most offices in Northern California offices. Most are Net gear router modele MR814 & WGR614, 4 wired ports and 1 wireless port; and WG311 wireless adapters. Is there anyway to monitor the router activity? Anyway to see which port (wired and wireless) is active and network traffic. Also, want to make sure nobody outside our approved users is using the wireless...

Hi All, A little while ago I bought a QNAP TS109 NAS to store my music/photos etc on but for some reason I can't see it from "Network" on my Vista Home Premium laptop. On my wife's Vista Home Basic laptop it appears just fine. Is there a way to copy all her network settings onto my computer? I've spent ages tweaking all sorts of different settings in Vista to try and make my computer work and...

VPN (PPTP, MS-Chap) connection fails with Error 807 if firewall is online. After deactivating firewall VPN connection works error free. Any practical ideas? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Klaus

I have an XP Media center service pack 2 desk top. The printer on it is an HP 2210 all in one, attached via USB port. I now have a laptop with Vista Home Premium. I am running, both direct wired and wirelesss network through a router provided by my DSL provider. The network is working fine in both modes. I have (with the help of a pretty good expert in the tech support group) been able...

Hi I am trying to backup files to my vista home premium pc. The other computers are win xp systems and I need to schedule backups of files located on the other computers. In Vista, I cannot find I way to do this. Anyone have any ideas?

Have Vista Ultimate on 1 machine and XP Pro on the other. Was able to share files from XP to Vista but not , after all the trying, the other way. About a month ago I becan me unable to share either way. Can see each computer from either one. Have been reading various comments from poeple like me who are in the same boat . Have not had a clear indication on what to do. It seems to me that if...

Have posted part of this before. Have Vista and Xp Pro computers on network (Workgroup). Am able to see and access files from Vista unit. Can see XP Pro unit but am not able to (Access it) Access Denied. Have setup identical usernames and passwords on both, but am getting nowhere. Need help. -- ADH

I have an issue with some IE settings from a GPO not applying to Vista. For testing/isolation, I have an OU with two computers and a single user (Not a roaming profile). One computer is XP SP2 with IE7 the other Vista Enterprise. The domain controllers are Windows 2003 R2. For testing purposes the GPO was created using Vista Group Policy Management Console with only 2 user settings. One...

Hi, I have a HP Slimline. I bought it on January. Since a few weeks ago it changed my IP to a 169.254.x.x type. I have tried 'this' (http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?t=506&sid=a92829da9df97c7a8f708d8f33ff88c7) and 'this' (http://slees.net/2006/09/25/ip-169254xx/); I restore the system to a date before the problem began, deleted/changed registry keys but none of this seemed to...

I am running Windows Vista Home Professional and using a Linksys WRT350N wireless router with the USB storage link. Attached to the router, I have a Western Digital 500GB Essential Edition USB external hard drive. I created a share to the external hard drive in the router interface and am able to access the folder and files from one of my other machines running XP. However, when I try to...

Hi, I recently have had a problem with my laptop. Its basically a week old with vista home premium x64. When it had updated to IE8, the browser was unable to connect. So then i reverted back to firefox which had no problems. But now, firefox was updated, and I dont have any browsing capabilities. I can ping sites and also use IM. I've been looking around, but I can't seems to find a...

This might have been posted already, but there's 68 pages so forgive the fact I didn't want to go through them. The WLAN feature in Vista scans for new networks every 60 seconds usually taking 2-3 seconds to do. When surfing the internet there is no problem, I don't even know it's happening, but I am a gamer, and when WLAN scans for a new network I get a 2-3 second lag in-game. I've read...

My IPWireless modem connects to the pc via ethernet cable, and in XP used the PPPoE. After my upgrade to Vista the modem is not detected. My networking skills are not too hot and I would appreciate any insights.

I have vista business and installed sonicwall GVC i get an error saying that the virtual adapter is disabled or uninstalled. I can view this under mt network connections and it says it is fine and working. Has anyone over come this?

Anyone have a way of getting Vista and SBS2003 standard login scripts to work ?

I am computer illiterate so please give answers in lame-mans terms :/ Prior to the clean installation I had USRobotics Network Adapter. I tried using the original disk to reinstall the driver but its not supported by my current operating systems. Ive gone to USRobotics website to find a solution...I found the driver I needed so from my friends computer I burned it to a disk then tried to...

my friend has an hp laptop with windows vista. i went through the whole list of networking fixes with her and none of them worked. the one involving regedit, the battery saving ones, all of them. her laptop did work for a short period of time at my house, but not at her and not when she initially brought it here. are there any new fixes to try for a problem where the computer can see other...

I have a notebook with Vista Home Premium. With a single network connection, everything is OK (profiles, firewall, etc). Now I set up a VPN to my office intranet over the public WAN connection. With my old Windows2000 Pro it worked OK. Vista Network and Sharing Center shows both connections, one Public (WAN) and the other Private (VPN). I have disabled the firewall for the VPN connection (even if...

Ok This is bascially what i want to know. I know i sent this person a file through msn like 6 months ago. I want to find out that persons IP address. I know u can do it by having a connection with someone and typing something like netstats in that DOS program. However i want to know if Vista automatically keeps a log of these connections and if there is anyway i can find out what that persons...

Ok, So I have a XP computer that is hooked up to a printer which I want to print from using a Vista computer. But this Vista wont find the computer or the printer. I also have a second computer with Vista that finds it perfectly find and can print from it. I dont understand why one of my computers can find the printer while the other vista one cannot. And from the XP computer, I can see...