local network

Hi, I've done something stupid. In the folder "shared" so had "all" access. But what are "all"? I have passwords on my router. But in "Network" I see other individuals I do not recognize, and can access these folders (in some), but many of the required password (looked at this when I...

Hi, I went through numerous similar threads, but unfortunately none had the problem I am facing. I have a desktop and a laptop computer connected to the Internet over an ADSL router-modem. The laptop is running Windows 7 Enterprise and the desktop is running Windows 7 Ultimate. when...

I have tried this question several ways still to no avail. So will try again. I have a w7 pc on wired local network, also VMWARE xp mode on w7 machine and vista laptop and network media player. I need to be able to share the media files on the w7 machine to the local network so that the media...

Hello all, We just purchased a brand-new Gateway desktop PC with Windows 7 installed. We have a preexisting wireless network, Cable modem linking to Linksys WRT160N router, which has two laptop PCs using it for internet, both running Vista, working perfectly. The new computer can see the...

Hi I have managed to get my Zensonics z500 media player to show me the media folders on my windows 7 machine, in the video library, but the files have no contents. If the original file on the PC had an AVI movie that file showing on the z500 is empty. It originally worked fine in the old XP pc...

:(:( I have been trying to log on remotely from a Windows 7 Professional machine into my personal machine that is also running Windows 7 Professional on the same network. Following is some setup points. 1) My personal/host computer is assigned a static IP address 2) I can ping my personal...

our step is simple - two windows 7 computers - cable internet and a router.... I set this all up myself months and months ago - this morning nothing was working - called the cable company - reset router and internet -- have gone through ALL troubleshooting for sharing, etc - Now both...

Hi, I decided to join the forum just for this purpose. I hope someone will be able to help me. Anyway here is my problem: All my computers are running Windows 7 (2 of them are 64-bit, the other 32-bit). A few weeks ago, all of them could see each other just fine. I could access all of them...

Hi, I have the following weird problem: I have three machines A) WinXP Pro SP3 32bit B) WinXP Home SP3 (32bit) C) Win7 Pro 64bit They are all connected through a router to the same DSL modem. Each has its own unique static IP. Each can access the internet without a problem. Computers A) and...

I previously owned a XP Media Center PC and a XP Pro laptop. I had them networked on a wireless N network, which also included my Xbox 360. I never had any issue transferring files between the PC and Laptop or streaming videos/music to my 360. Fast forward. I now have a new PC and a...

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Ok so I searched the whole internet for this but I still can't figure out what the problem is. I just want to send simple txt message between local computers. We are all in the same group "workgroup" but everytime I type: msg * "test message" I only get the message and noone else gets it. And...

Hi, Is it possible to setup the Win7 Firewall like this: every program will be allowed to access the local network (LAN), for example games will be able to play, and no program will be allowed to acess the internet. How can I do this?

I am running Windows 7 with IIS. I am trying to connect to it via my local network to used it as a test server for Dreamweaver. When i try to connect to the ODBC, i get an error 401, access denied. Im pretty sure it is a security issue but i need some help.

I just upgraded my home office computer to Windows 7 (from XP) All went reasonable well, given the age of my system. I had some difficulty getting it to play well with my graphics card but other than that I was happy...until I started setting up the home network. I got it to work, but...

Local Networking Judging by the number of requests in this forum (mine included), it's not as straight forward as uSoft would have us believe to set up a local network in Windows 7. This is my solution to my problem which prevented me from accessing a newly purchased Laptop - unbeknown to me...

Hi. I have a little problem that is driving me insane. I have looked and looked on the net and through these forums with no luck. First, let me tell you my network setup. 1x Laptop with XP pro (using wireless) 1x Desktop with Win7 Ultimate (using wire) 1x DSL/WiFi router/modem combo (ISP is...

I've got two Windows 7 Pro machines that I'm trying to connect using a HomeGroup (partly just to see if it's useful, since I'm already pretty comfortable with normal windows network sharing), but this new, "easy" sharing system simply isn't working. Nor is it giving me any useful error message...

When I play 1080p video and there is lot of disk activity at the same time (virus database updates, someone copys something trough local network, DVD is burning...anyway - lot of hard disk activity) then the video shows very poor peformence - stops and starts for sec, then stops, slideshows and...

Tunngle for LAN over web tunnel... Just come across this app Link Removed due to 404 Error Basically does much the same thing as Hamachi however...seems to work better for a few titles that wouldnt work at all over hamachi/LAN modes... At the minute its German as its still in beta, but seems...