local network

I have an desktop with windows xp and also a internet connection (Hathway) . So i recently brought a laptop with windows 7 and i removed the ethernet cable from desktop and connected it to laptop. Internet did not connect and when i went to network and sharing and troubleshooted it , it said...

Hi everyone, I am currently having a problem that has been troubling me for a long time, I've looked all over the internet and I still haven't found a solution. My problem is that my XP network cannot access my Win7 server, but its not the same problem that has so many solutions around on the...

Hi everybody, I want to use the netsend command to send a message from my machine to another in a local network. (netsend was used to send LAN message with windows). I used Netsend before but it disapeared under Windows7. I know that netsend is no longer valid in Windows 7, so I was wondering...

Just trying out the 3.1 release and my local and miniWAN port is picked up but not the wireless adapter? whats going on here?

Hi I have found lots of ways to password protect foldres. But I can`t find a way to passwordprotect the access over local network. (and hamachi2) I have tried to make a user (test) and the password (test, on that user). I have tried to share the folder, and just grant access for the...

Hi, I am currently having some problems with BSoD appearing while I'm browsing local network shares on our company servers through F5 Firepass vpn. It seems to come at random when you are viewing/editing office documents, but you can force the same bsod by searching for ppt etc on a network...

Sorry if I'm in the wrong place but just stuck looking for help... I've got a home network with Homegroup working fine across three /four machines & printers I've just installed a small test server and loaded Windows Small Business Server 2011 (SBS2011) I've tried connecting to this server...

An anonymous reader writes "In Windows 7, any time you connect to a network, Windows tells you if you have full internet access or just a local network connection. It also knows if a WiFi access point requires in-browser authentication. How? It turns out, a service automatically requests a file...

Hi All i just bought a Lan Cable to make a network between my desktop and laptop so i can make a file transfer between them, and play games over lan My Desktop has Windows 7 32x-Bit My Laptop has Windows 7 64x-Bit i plug it in both of them and i putted these IPs: Desktop: 192.168.1.1...

Hello. I just got Windows 7 and already stomped into issues. I can see other PC's in the network. That's wouldn't be so bad if I didn't know they can see me too. I'm not sociopath or something but I prefer privacy. Now I think it's my ISP's fault. I'm connected to a LAN (local?) at all times and...

What would be the best way to set up the local network so that machines can share files and printers with each other? There is an ADSL-modem/DHCP-server/router/firewall and a wireless hot-spot connected to it. (Kind of radio extension of the LAN.) There is an old Windows2000 SP4 desktop...

Hello everyone, I just bought a Sony VAIO VPCEA3S1E and I have a problem with my WIFI connection. It says it connects to the local network and internet, but in reality, internet doesn't work. When I try to 'resolve the problem', it indicates that "The default gateway is not available". I've...

hi all. i'm facing a new annoying problem. i format the PC, but the built-in network card keep giving me, "No Network available", i tried to uninstall the driver and reinstall it, disable the the device and enable it, unplug the cable and replug it, and somehow it detect it but after long...

I installed Need for speed underground 2 on my local network. It's OK to play on each PC . But when we try to join each other, We got an IPX network error and we can't play it. I would like to know how to fix the IPX problem on window 7. Thanks FAMILY4ALL

Hi All, Setup as follows: Thomson Speedtouch 585 on 192.168.1.254 PC w/ Windows 7 wired on .72 Laptop w/ Windows 7 wireless on .66 Xbox 360 wired on .64 iPhone wireless on .68 Internet works fine on all devices. Have got the 360 set up using the PC as Media Center which is working fine and...

I have a Verizon USB modem connection to my new dell 8100 desktop with windows 7. I connect to the internet with vzaccess manager. I have this computer connected (ethernet) to a WRT54G router so my laptop (Vista) can get internet connection thru the 8100. This connection worked when I had a...

I have a PC running XP with a Western Digital My Book external drive connected to it. My laptop running Windows 7 (and my daughter's netbook running Vista) can no longer access the WD hard drive. The rest of my network works fine (all three computers have internet access and can access the...

This is a weird one... I have W7 x64 Ultimate on 10.10.10.2, connected via a switch to 10.10.10.1, my internet gateway running XP x32 SP3 (etc etc). Both machines are in the same workgroup, etc, and the private connection has NO firewalling at either end. I have uninstalled connection strangling...

Hello, im new here. To start off I am not trying to share internet connection, none of the computers have internet. They are not connected to Modems or Routers. The desktop(Host) has a USB Wireless adapter and is runing XP. The laptop(Client) has built in wireless card and is running Windows 7...

Hello all, Please help a newbie here. Really was wasting last 2 days trying to set up network and couldn't figure out how. First let me describe how actually the physical network is set up. There are 6 computers all having Windows 7 installed on them. One of the computers is connected to...