network configuration

I have two Win 7 x64 machines. They are on the same homegroup and are physically plugged into the same switch. Each machine can see the other on the network, no problem. Machine 2 can See and access shared folders on Machine 1, no problem' Machine 1 can see the Machine 2, but whenever it...

You can soon start sharing files on a home network with simple steps, if you have an environment where each computer is connected to the Internet. It is not difficult to build a home network even if different versions of Windows such as Windows 7,... Link Removed - Invalid URL

Hi, My computer had been working fine and while I was watching a movie on my computer the internet randomly gave out (wasn't streaming the movie or using the internet to watch it). Now I can't connect to the internet and it says that the network is Unidentified. I've tried a bunch of fixes such...

I have two Windows 7 Ultimate computers and around 10 Windows XP (Home and Professional, SP2 and SP3) computers trying to connect to it. It's just a LAN (no internet access). I have set all of the password-protected sharing off on the Win 7 systems. I have tried opening up ALL of the...

I am trying to allow only certain computers on my HomeNetwork to access a network drive. My router is a BT HomeHub 3 and thecomputers are all connected by ethernet cables, the computer I don't want tohave access is wireless. The network drive is connected to the network using aUSB on the...

I've got a Biostar TA790GXBE motherboard with onboard Realtek RTL8168D NIC. This has three boxes under Power Management: Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power Allow this device to wake the computer Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer I've added a Realtek 8139B NIC...

I am back home for the holidays and brought my desktop back with me that runs Windows 7. After I got it all set up I realized I could not access the internet, and that I was connected to an "Unidentified Network". After looking into it more I found that I was getting a 169.XXX.XX.XX IP, and I...

Alright, firstly, please forgive my poor English. I'll try my best to explain all the issues clearly. Link Removed from very above downto the third line are: IPv4 connection : not connected (Not OK, it wasn't like that) IPv6 connection : not connected (No public IPv6 connection in China, this...

With the computers networks that I install I need all computers to be able to see each other. With XP this is simple. All I need to do is have the same user name and password and workgroup name at each computer. I also create a share on the C drive to all. Then when I go into network places...

In one of my tools (and in many other utilities out there) there is the option to specify a certain computer (in the local LAN) by computername. So I tell the tool: Connect to remote computer "maggie" on port 1521 in LAN and do something.... Unfortunately the tool is not able to find...

Hi, I am from the IT process re-enginneering/development side and the company I work for has just decided to build a server for around 15 users. Mainly file sharing. As previous experiences I have left that to our networking guys so really no experience whatsoever. What I'm looking for is if...

So yesterday in the early AM's I was browsing my internet and all the sudden, bam. I lost my internet. No reason at all, it just happened. This is only my computer, everything else works fine (If internet is out, our TV's don't work) When I go to my little internet icon in the taskbar, it says...

I'm using Windows 7 64 bit. My computer came out of sleep mode on friday without internet access. I immediately placed a support request with my network provider (I live at a university) but they have yet to respond. In the meantime, I'm treating the issue as though it's originating with my...

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...

SYSTEM DESCRIPTION: Linksys/T-Mobile Hot Spot (wireless) ROUTER with Ethernet connections to 1) Home Phone, 2) iMAC PowerPC/OS X Leopard, 3) PC/Windows 7 32bit and 4) IOMEGA HOME MEDIA NETWORK HARD DRIVE (herein "NHD"). PERTINENT SYSTEM STATUS: The NHD contains 1) a "BACKUPS" folder with...

Hi, I have a Toshiba M750 TabletPC running Win7 Pro 64-bit. Never had a problem until a few days ago, possibly until I installed SpiderOak's latest version, 9810. (SpiderOak is a backup/sharing software similar to Dropbox) I'm using IPv4 with the following settings: Fixed IP of...

Hey folks. I would like to know how you can redirect an external IP to localhost. Im trying to emulate the server for a simple program one of my friends coded in C++ (or something). It is basicly a login and register system, upon registering the program sends a HTTP request to the server (it...

I have set up a wi-fi network. My laptop has Win 7 home basic version. My desk top runs on XP and is hard wired to the wi-fi router.. I have used a belkins G level wi-fi router... all the laptops and the desktop are able to access the internet... 1. My WIN7 laptop is able to access my...

sorry for my bad English. I'm a Vietnamese so if there were any problem with my language, please ignore it. I've known a password of a wifi and have connected it for 4 months with no problem. But on a beautiful day, it turned out to be "unidentified network" and "limited access". I tried...

I have many Windows 2008 R2 servers running as my DCs. I created a drive mapping group policy on one of the 2008 servers to map my network drives in my AD environment. My Windows XP machines work great 100% of the time. In Windows 7, this is not the case. I cannot see the drive letters...