I have a small home network of 5 computer a mix of Vista and XP. I want to share the Windows Vista users desktop on my network. I know it shouldn't be done but I'm a fan of dragging and dropping thing from one computer to the other and i like to place the stuff right on the desktop of the other computer so when I move to that system it's right there. Can someone tell me how to do that in...

Im having problems to make a share folder offline in VISTA, the laptop is joined a 2003 domain. First I was receiving the msg access denied, even I have full access to the files but when I try to make them available offline I receive the msg access denied. After 20 different tries (mapping by IP and name server, disable and reenable offline files etc) I delete the share and recreate it and now I...

checking ipconfig, I found this error: Tunnel Adapter Local Area Connection *: Media State: Disconnected Tunnel Adapter Local Area Connection 10: Media State: Disconnected Help me to fix this error. Thanks. -- Don

I am tyring to share my hard drives over my home network, but I don't get the option via Right-Clicking it like I used to in Win XP. In the Network & Sharing Center, my file sharing staus is "Custom". I suspect this is why I can't share my hard drive, can anyone tell me what to do next? Thx in advance.

I've downloaded the upgrades that I know about for both of these operating systems, now neither machine sees the other or its files & printers. Anybody got any idea what's wrong?

My office network has several Xp pcs and one Vista pc. All of my sharing options are on, and the workgroup is set to private. My vista pc will let the others open its shred folders for a breif second. then it locks them out agian. What can i do?

I have Windows Vista on an AMD system with a Linksys WUSB300N wireless adapter. After defragging with PerfectDisk 2008 I can not connect to my router. I can't, repair, uninstall + reinstall, delete + create a new connection. My laptop right next to it connects just fine as it always had. If I put the WUSB300N on the laptop it connects + works just fine. I can only assume that it is something in...

I am attempting to add a Dial Up Connection for use with a USB 3G Wireless device (Novatel Wireless Ovation HSDPA Modem). When I attempt to add a new Dial Up Connection using the Network and Sharing Center, the first message I get is that Windows could not detect a dial-up modem. 1. The Modem appears in the Device Manager list under modems. The Device Manager informs me that the device is...

I am trying to login to a network drive that is password protected, I can access it through http but cannot access through explorer, when asked for login name and password vista adds the computer name to the login name and then says login unsuccessful make sure name and password corect, I cannot access my files and when I add a network password to my user account it does not save. Any help...

We are having difficulty with using one computer to access another computer over the network. We use a peer-to-peer workgroup network with four computers. Two computers are running Windows 2000, one computer runs Windows XP, and the other runs Windows Vista. The problem is between the computer running Windows Vista and one of the computers running Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 computer...

I currently have a Vista and and several XP machines on the same network. My vista machine CAN ping and access all shared folders on any XP machine. My XP machines CAN ping my Vista machine, but none of them can see the Vista machine in "My network Places" I tried using 'net view \\COMPUTERNAME' in the command prompt to see

The weirdest thing happened today. After booting up, I realized that File Sharing had turned off by itself. I wasn'T playing around with any settings last night, so it couldn't have been me. I was browsing some websites that tried to install some crap on my machine, though.

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I'm desperate now. I have a recurrent problem with my offline files since I upgraded to vista. Any file I create/modify while I'm offline generates a sync error "The system cannot find the file specified". Vista is the Client; the server is an XP-Pro. This setting has been working flawless for over 6 months until the update. During the last 2 weeks I have checked everything I can image,...

Hello, One of our remote users running Vista Home Premium has had a VPN connection to our office for several months, working with no issues whatsoever. However, recently (within the last month) this VPN connection has stopped working: that is to say the connection attempt times out and the user gets an error message to say that it has failed. Also, our router does not record any attempt...

After doing all the troubleshooting I can, I received a Code 31. Device not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers for the device. Microsoft suggests that I update the driver, but that is not possible, see below: I started my Vista64 computer this morning and noticed that it had no connection to the internet. I went through a few basic troubleshooting steps and found that...

Have a network with wired desktop PC and laptop on WAN, both running Vista Premium. Is ther a method to keep the Win Calendar synchronized between the two, and if so how? Thanks

Hey C:\Windows\system32net use \\192.168.0.179\muziek1 /user:192.168.0.179\adminis rator * Geef het wachtwoord op voor \\192.168.0.179\muziek1: De opdracht is voltooid. ( so i get that it is completed). But when i try to access the drive , I get the specified device is no longer available.

I have a desktop with XP SP2 and 2 laptops with VISTA. I have a Sprint USB broadband adapter and would like to share my internet connection over a home network. I cannot get it to work. When I connect my Linksys router to the desktop it disconnects the USB internet connection. Is this possible?

hi, a friend of mine recently loaned me his sprint mobile broadband card for my upcoming beach trip. i downloaded and installed the sprint smartview software (which corrupted my ps/2 drivers...grr) which naturally added the drivers for the USB device and a couple of other ports for things like GPS and data communication. the smart-view software establishes a connection using RAS, however,...