workgroup

Hi, I have windows 7 SP1 installed pcs in my office network belongs to workgroup. these system traffic shows through router(command: show ip accounting) that many public ip address is accessing ,which utilze my network bandwidth in large size.How can i block these traffic? Why happening these...

Hi All, Our network is in workgroup but not in domain because of most of the computers in the office are home edition operating systems. Though we have windows server 2012 as a file server. Our issue is the network slow, by analyzing I found the issue may be with the computers cannot identify...

Hello: I am having no end of trouble with my network. Here's the setup: 1. BT Home Hub 5 Wi-Fi router, connected to Internet. 2. Desktop, Win 7 HP, x64, connected to router with Ethernet. 3. HP LaserJet printer, connected to router with Ethernet. 4. Netgear EX6200 AC1200 802.11ac Dual Band...

Hi, I am beginning to feel lost and I need some help because I need to fix this problem I've been having at work. Basically, I have been having issues with my network drives, seems like after a certain amount of time computers are not able to see my other computers in the same workgroup, and...

Hi, I've just upgraded to 8.1. I was always able to login as a different user and use my work network user credentials i.e. workgroup\username. On this version I can do this. I can only add users once logged in and switch between them on the login screen. This version doesn't show the 'login...

Hello all, I am facing a problem, I can't seem to figure out in some of my workstations mainly running windows 7. So, I have two physical networks connected via vpn, and because I needed to have them resolve by name I had to set up a wins server and add it to all of my workstations for the...

I'm running Windows 7 on HP Pavillion. I'm having trouble with family account showing devices and printers window with items in it, just a blank screen. See attachment. My administration side of accounts shows the items in window. See attachment. I created a new account call Test and it shows...

Hi Guys Will apologise in advance for the vagueness of what I am about to ask. First of all, I will tell you what I have, and what I have done/planned to do. I have a server that is running Windows Server Standard. It has Active Directory installed and the client PC's are connected to the...

Windows 8.1 Networking I have the following home network configuration: Dell XPS27 with Win 8.1,Netgear WNDR4500v2 wireless router,Networked AVR, networked DirectTV, several android phones on WIFI, and a post XP laptop running Crunchbang Linux. Everything works fine. Networked music, internet...

Hello all, I have a small workgroup that I am able to ping machines by ipaddress, but can't seem to be able to ping by machine name. I have even installed a WINS server and added it to my dhcp configuration. What is really weird is that if I do a nbtstat -A 192.168.1.xx I get the name of the...

I am running W8.1 Update 1 Professional - I would like to switch between my home workgroup and my work workgroup. home - workgroup (homenetwork) - using TCP/IP - auto work - workgroup (worknetwork) - using TCP/IP assigned settings Is there a way to do this without changing the workgroup name...

Hello! Anybody know how to set a computer back to Workgroup, and remove all of the domain user when the computer is not used in a domain enviroment anymore?? Regards Kåre!

Running Windows 7 -- I recently changed my work PC's user account name to my name, and likewise changed the name of the PC, through Control Panel>User Accounts and Control Panel>System. However, when the PC reboots and the login screen comes up, it always reads "Userid: Joe-HP (my new username)...

Hi, I'm not sure where to post this, but here it goes: I have followed this tutorial in creating a NAS for my home, but it seems like it needs my computer to be in a workgroup. I am currently running windows 7 professional but the computer is not mine. My company owns it and it belongs to a...

Please help me try to map a network drive from a different PC on the same network! When I try to do it this pops up: I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 on the PC I'm trying to add the drive to and Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1 on the PC where I want to map to. They are both on the...

Hi As per subject, Windows keeps on asking for credentials when I try to access a document on our SharePoint site. I also get this every single time when I try to access a mapped drive. It doesn't matter if I click on the checkbox to "remember username/password", I will always be prompted...

I have a server running Win server 2008. There are 7 workstations running windows 7. The business software I use has its own database server function, I literally have to "turn on" the software's database by clicking an icon in my server's task bar. My network is a DOMAIN, but the software can...

Target machine is XP home, and I am trying to access it from a Windows 8 machine. Both are wireless, and are in the same workgroup. I get the "Remote Desktop can't connect" message using either the computer name or the current IP address I can ping the address RDC is enabled on target I...

I have this problem. I can get on my Ubunutu machine and see the windows machine. I can bring up the work group icon for the windows 7 machine on my Ubunutu machine. Then Windows 7 wants a pass word. I do not have a clue to what it would be. It is not the administers password. How do I...

First of all, apologies if this has been raised before. I couldn't search through all the previous posts to find it or similar! OK, I'm supporting a small office network - only 4 computers - 3 laptops and a desktop, acting as a server. All 4 machines are running Win 7 Pro, and all are...