network access

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Can anyone advise a program for monitoring installed software that tries to access the internet? Firewall in interactive mode can do this too of course, or Task Manager too, I'm looking for something specialised, with logging or statistics etc. Thanks for the tips Peter

Hello, I have a PC with Windows 10 and Kubuntu Linux dual boot. The machine is connected to my DSL router via LAN cable. No Wifi hardware installed. I like Windows to have no internet connection at all. Linux should be able to connect without any restrictions. How can I prevent Windows from...

If I'm logged into Windows 8.1 as username/password, and I try to access files on another computer on my network (in this case my NAS, which I think is running Linux), what username and password does it try to connect to the NAS with? If it gives me a "You need permission to perform this action"...

Since a few days I have a new network in Control Panel--Network and internet--network and Sharing Center: Its labelled "unidentified network" and acts as loopback. See attached snapshot. I cannot figure out how this network entry was created. As far as I remember my Win7 worked well for a...

Every time I run a program it produces a .stl file. This file is automatically saved to the computers local disk. I want this file to be accessible on my network, so I created a shortcut. However, the shortcut does not overwrite every time I run the program. How can I get the shortcut to...

I have a admin user account which can access all computers on the local n/w. I created another user account (Standard), but it cannot access other computers on the n/w. Why so? How can we solve the prob? I get a message - Log on failure: the user has not been granted logon type at this computer.

Ein freundliches Hallo an alle, Win10 spielt plötzlich verrückt! Ich habe einige Tage mit Win XP gearbeitet. Dann habe ich Win10 gestartet und keinen Zugriff mehr auf das Netzwerk. Weder der Sambaserver noch andere Rechner sind im Netzwerk sichtbar. Ping geht aber sowohl auf den Server als...

Hello I have a folder SMB called Windows server it's under share/WindowsServer but when I try to click on it it wont let me in folder. I set the permissions for everyone then full access. Is there any other settings to change ? Thanks

Hi I have installed packetfence using the ZEN preconfigured version on VMware. Can anyone tell me what i need to configure as i don't think i need to configure everything that is shown on the pdf user guide. Let me explain what i am trying to achieve. I have a number of Draytek 2862Ln model...

After having used for some years another firewall I considered now to switch to MS built in Windows Firewall (in Win 7 Pro). So I deinstalled the old FW and enabled the MS WF. When I go now to wf.msc e.g into "Inbound rules" section then there are much to my surprise many "Allow" rules for...

Running W7 on a modern desktop (Asus mobo) I had put this off for a long time - hoping it would be stable by time I upgrade. Followed full update process - al up to date before upgrade. After 100% upgrade ... it rebooted and got to to login screen - would not accept any mouse of keyboard input...

I'm trying to share a Windows 7 folder with a Windows 10 computer. I do NOT want to have identical user accounts on each machine. The objective is to share the folder, which I have done many times. Here are as many details as may be relevant: Password file sharing is turned off on both...

I've run an Ethernet cable to a second floor bedroom router (TP-LINK TL-WR841ND) to give better network connectivity due to distance from the first floor access point, which is also a TL-WR841ND. This cable is connected from yellow LAN port on the secondary to yellow LAN port on the primary...

I need help figuring out how to remove individual users from network discovery. On network devices when accessing network media the options to access media on the network devices displays as ComputerName:Username1, ComputerName:Username2, ComputerName:Username3, etc... Only the main user is the...

I recently got a new laptop, and it runs on windows 8.1. So far almost everything has been fine except for one issue: that I can not connect to a certain home network. At my home I have two available WiFi points, and one I can connect to no problem, just as normal, but my main one does not...

Hi, I attempt to connect to via wifi and I get "limited access" and it also says "unidentified network". I searched google and gone through everything but can't find a solution that works. I am using a dell latitude e6500 Laptop. I have an excellent signal, I have disabled windows firewall...

My system (Windows 8) was shut down during a power outage, and now when I try to restart, I hear the CPU go through what sounds like the normal process, but there is nothing on my monitor. I've tried the CPU with another monitor, same issue. I can access the shared folders from another computer...

I bought this Acer Aspire laptop new in 2009. It came with Windows 7 Home Premium. I have exhausted all possibilities of installing Service Pack 1. I've tried directly downloading it through Windows Update several times and I just finished unsuccessfully installing it by downloading, burning a...

I have a Linux based application, ATIS by Trapeze, that some of my users "sporadically" can't connect to. I am running a Windows 2008 R2 server with DCHP. The client workstations are Windows 7 x86. When a user experiences this problem, not being able to connect to ATIS, I can resolve it by...