network access

I am trying to access a network share at my workplace and am unable with the windows 7 machines. With the XP machines I can hit \\x3400 and \\10.10.1.x and accessed shared folders. With Win7 I can hit \\10.10.1.x but \\x3400 gives me the ol' unspecified MS error 0x80004005. Firewalls are...

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...

I have four machines: A MacBook Pro, a desktop running Ubuntu and two desktops running Windows 7 64bit. To make it easier in describing the issue I am having, let's call my Windows 7 desktops as PC-A and PC-B. I have shared folders in both PC-A and PC-B that are accessible from all machines and...

All of my computers at work are on a domain controlled by a SBS 2003 Server except for an old Windows 2000 Server that I have printers attached to it that the network uses. All of the windows 2000 computers and XP can access the printers and drive on this machine outside of the domain but the...

I am at a State U and want to create a temporary directory, say, C:\Users\temp, that can be used by multiple students that authenticate through a domain. A trivial task in Linux but are there other ramifications in windows 7? I have found %temp% is C:\Users\staff\AppData\Local\Temp. Would...

OK i have read other post and what i did i can see the files on XP compter belonging to win 7 but not able to find printer which are connected to xp on the win 7. First off, I had all printers connected to win7 which also has the router still. DO I need to remove the printers on win 7? My...

Hi all, I solved my own problem but I thought that I would post the solution here. I did not see anything on the net for the issue I was having but I am sure it comes up from time to time. I accidentally created a shortcut inside a folder to itself. I was clicking on the file path at the top...

Hello all! I was hoping for a little bit of help with this problem. I've Googled for the last 45 minutes, tried a bunch of solutions, and searched this very forum, to no avail. I'm trying to share a folder on my computer (N:\TV, where N is an internal hard disk) on my local area network. Two...

when using my router at a new location (no wifi so i bring mine to a friends house), someone elses router (known pw), or attempting to access public wifi i can get a connection/signal and it usually shows "net access" at 1st (sometimes not tho), then when i go to open IE or windows messenger i...

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...

Hey So what I would like to do is connect to the internet through my wireless card. I then want to try and use one of my Ethernet ports to connect to a separate LAN for file sharing to a group of NAS enclosures. This LAN is connected to its own router and the router is providing its own IP...

How do i get my browser to go to the signup/login page when accessing a public wifi network. I always have to fumble around and try to guess what page to type in, then i can enter the code or accept the user agreement to gain access. Usually the browser just tries to go to my startup page...

First off, thanks for looking in here... I've searched everywhere, been at it forever it seems, and I'm just stumped. I bought a new PC to replace and older PC. Trying to get everything transferred to new PC(NPC) from old PC(OPC), going at it via FTP. Now for the problem. I've setup a...

guys... this just happened 3 days ago before i have no problem with internet connection... i'm using haier c100 using the evdo connection... well my evdo account is still active and strange thing is whenever i connect to the evdo connection it cannot connect to the internet and said no network...

Hello all, My name is Tommy and I am new to the forum. Hope everyone is having a great day and I look forward to reading posts and sharing advise and issues with you all. I have a interesting issue that I hope someone can help me with. I am logged into my Windows 7 machine and I have...

Hi, About a month back my motherboard died and I had to get a new one (ECS - GeForce 6100PM-M2). Prior to the death of the old MoBo, I was connected via a wired connection to my cable router. When I replaced the MoBo, I now get a message telling me the ethernet cable is connected to an...

Hi everyone, Maybe someone already explained it but i couldn't find it. I apologize. I have two laptops running Windows 7 Ultimate build 7600,fully updated. Both of them have wireless network adapter. I searched on internet and found that one way to connect them is by ad-hoc...

Hello I just bought windows 7 today, i was prevouisl using windows xp and I could connect to my wireless internet just fine. Then after I installed windows 7 I am unable to connet to the wireless, it picks up my network but says no network access/limited access. I've tryd turning my router on...

New Windows 7 computer; old network w/4 XPs. W7 can use files on XPs; XPs can access W7 printer and C:\Users\default & Public subfolders; can "see" C drive but can’t open files. Message: "\\Ralphhome\C is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource etc." W7...

Apologies for this, as I know this has probably been covered multiple times. I have read everywhere, but cannot get this to work. Here's the set up: I have a WD MyBook connected to my new Win7 notebook. I right clicked on the drive and selected advanced sharing. I called the shared name...