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Hi, I mapped 2 network drives on my pc it was perfectly fine until i changed my workgroup name, the 2 network drives too slow to open and sometimes not responding. I also could not connect internet and unable to receive email. Flushing dns and unplugging LAN cable sometimes works but i don't...

Hello, Just purchased a company PC fully refurbished for super cheap. It's running Windows 7 and no issues with setup. I have just moved into a rental and had the internet connected on the NBN. My connection is fine and all my lights including the LAN which is connected to my PC are...

The title says it all. How to I find the IP(s) of computer(s) on my LAN?

I want to lock one computer out of our home LAN - yet let it still access the wifi so's it can get the internet. How can I do that? The purpose is to avoid any contamination it might pick up being spread across the LAN.

Three Windows computers on the LAN. Internet upgrade requiring new router. All three have Internet access, two can talk to each other but the third can't see the two and they can't see it. Any ideas?

Many times people may have both their wireless NIC and wired NIC connected at the same time. This can create a bridge and cause your network performance to degrade. Here is a powershell script that could be setup as a scheduled task to run at start up. What it does it detect if the wired nic...

I have a wireless router upstairs and I use wifi to get online and switch downstairs for the LAN. Currently I have a separate IP address for the wireless and another for the switch. I would like to use the same IP address for the switch and the wifi (transferring files with the switch). Is...

I have 3 computers on my LAN, C1 C2 and C3. All 3 are on the same work group. I have just added a second HDD to C3. I have formatted this drive as drive “G” and have set it to be shared, with full permissions set. I can access this drive and its folders from C3. I can also access public...

Hi guys! Newbie here. I need help. Here's the scenario: We have two Internet Provider. Both are given static internet address. We have two departments using it: say Dept A uses Internet A and Dept B uses Internet B. Both also are configured to give addresses belonging to 192.168.1.0/24 network...

Here's the setup on my home network: Win10 Machine A - Win 10 Pro, Automatically logs on Using a Local Account (In Netplwiz I Unchecked that users need to enter a User Name/PW and have an admin account automatically logging in). Win10 Machine B - Win 10 Pro, Normal Logon process with a...

I always get a bit confused when configuring or setting up a LAN on XP. Maybe on win7, too. My confusion arises because there's apparently two LANs but the computer never talks about this, never puts it that way. There's the wireless network. That's a Lan, surely? And there's the Microsoft...

Only W10 box on my LAN which is very well secured. OrganizationWHAT!? See attached image. What does this, to my mind, Active Directory, looking message mean and what is it trying to tell me? Wonder if it could be related to my "One Drive-ing me crazy" issues (my other thread below). Thanks.

Hello everyone, The Pc is win 32 bit home edition, the laptop is win 8.1 64 bits, and both are connected to internet via HUAWEI router There isn't any issues with internet conectivity, The problem is that I can't find a correct way to connect between each other I created a home group (in the...

I have this problem which when i plug in the ethernet cable to my ethernet port it doesnt get connected, i had this problem since windows 7, i ve removed drivers by mistake and right now after i have upgraded to windows 10 hopping that it will be fixed automatically it didnt,i ve tryed install...

Have windows 7 pro desktop and windows 7 pro wireless laptop. trying to access the desktop ip 192.168.1.142 from the laptop....it use to work...both are on same router/switch... PINGS work in both directions and with both IP address and name. Connection is denied both ways... Router was...

The first three days of Win10 were good, then an update and a reboot and windows 7 can no longer access shared files on the Win10 machine. Files that were shared somehow magically come up as shared even though they have not been shared this time or may NOT even be mounted. Not that it matters...

After installing windows 10 on my PC, I couldn't connect to the Internet. It also didn't detect my LAN and wifi... And the Orange light in the LAN port used to flash, but it doesn't anymore, only when I start up the pc I can see a green light for 1 minute or so.

I have a LAN comprised of two Win7 Ultimate 64bit (sp1) PC's and one or more XP PC's. They have been able to share files between them pretty well for many months, but with the latest Win7 updates, the XP PC is no longer able to access the Win7 shared files. They, however, have full access to...

I have just spent a couple of hours trying to figure out how to get my clean install of 10130 to see my network shares. For some reason, even though I had connectivity, I could not see either my other Windows 10 computer or my NAS. For this build, I set up a PIN to log on to the system. I had...