This is about as simple a network problem as you can imagine. I just bought a new Compaq with Vista home, and I'd like to connect this new machine to my old Compaq, which has Windows XP (svc pack 2). I have a crossover Ethernet cable connecting the two PCs, and have run the configuration wizards on both machines. On the old XP PC, I am seeing the name of the new PC in the workgroups window...

hey i have recently purchased a wireless modem/router etc. i can get the internet fine on both my pc and laptop. but how do i configure it so i can access files from one computer if im on the other. thanks in advance

I have a fairly new Acer Windows Vista Laptop that seemed to be dissconecting from the internet ever few minutes which I realized was because of two internet managers that were running (the windows client and an Acer Enet Management client) so I disabled the Acer one and the problem has stopped however I've noticed my internet speed while using wifi has become very unbareably slow although...

I don't have a home network, but this is the newsgroup I found that seems most related to my problem. My ISP's DNS server network is somewhat unreliable; when they make an incorrect type of change on their master DNS server, it seems to crash all their regional DNS servers at the same time, usually for several hours at a time. How can I tell Vista SP1 to add some other DNS server not under...

I know this has been asked before, but I can't find a solution. I want to set up an ad-hoc wireless network on my online PC so I can share its wired Internet connection. The set up proceeds for a while, then I get an error message "Windows could not set up name of network". I've tried different security details, I get the same message. Note that I am trying to set up the network on the...

does anyone has an update about the support of LEAP authentication in VISTA? -- solepi Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Recently, I have a new compact desktop that running Vista Home Basic and it can access Windows 2003 server and Internet at head office. But it cannot access to the web page and Win2003 server when it had been relocated to another office.It shown "cannot found the host / web page". I cannot ping to any true IP except the true IP of ther router but it can updated the antivirus definition via...

I am having problems with my internet. Sometimes is works fine, but other times it doesn't work at all. For example, I will be on youtube watching a video and it will load at a normal rate, then I go to another video and it basically doesn't load at all. Another thing that happens is when I'm downloading something, it will start out working just fine, and the it freezes. The time doesn't change...

I have dual NICs in my Vista Pc but Vista does not use both. It will switch between but I can't find a way to get Vista to balance network traffic across the two NICs. Any ideas -- chasgman Charlie

Problem accessing shared folders on my Buffalo LinkStation mini NAS seems to have been fixed by resetting MTU. I pinged it with a number of MTU settings - the default value of 1500 didn't work - 1400 did work so by trial and error ended up seting it at 1467 and everything seems to be fine.

Mucho mucho useful, thanks! -- Regards, Stefaan Meeuws

Dear Techies out there - Please give me your help! Last saturday, oct 25 - 08, everything was fine! - sunday morning I had a problem... 1. Apparently, my Vista Home Basic had restarted after an update, now I could not access the internet. The other devices on my home network could access just fine. It appeared the Vista had screwed up it's(?) DNS somehow and after changing the network settings...

Hi MS recommend adding all user accounts to each PC to allow print and file sharing to work correctly, is there a way to hide all users other than the regular user of each machine . . Heinz

Mucho mucho useful, thanks! -- Regards, Stefaan Meeuws

Hi All, I am trying to share files between two XP computers and a Vista machine. Does Vista have anything equivalent to XP's "use simple file sharing"? Many thanks, -T

One of the computers on our network is regularly experiencing this. It will work fine on internet and then just goes to local access only. If we restart the machine it generally comes right for a while and then goes local again after a while. The time to fail is never consistent and can vary from hours to days. We connect with ADSL to internet through LAN. We have other Vista machines...

I have a domain. One Domain controller based on Windows Server 2000 shares an HP LaserJet 6L printer. The printer is accessed over the network by a number of Windows 2000 workstations, Windows XP Pro workstations and Windows XP Home workstations as well as a number of Macintosh OS 7.5 and OS X 10.4.11 systems, some are domain members and some are not, but they all work and print flawlessly. A...

I have three PC's networked via a Router - two running Vista Ultimate, and one running Windows XP. If i have all three machines running then all have access to Internet and all have full networking capability between machines. If I switch the XP Machine off - then both Vista PC's have access to the Internet - but lose all networking capability between each other. Anyone have any ideas

Just ran into this after getting my new laptop and trying to transfer files from the desktop to the laptop. Problem: Connecting to a shared folder over the network is insanely slow. After initial connection everything is fine. Details: Desktop machine has C:\ root shared out as \\Desktop\C. Laptop accesses share via Start, \\Desktop\C, (ie. connect to UNC path via start menu). The folder...

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