Hi again, Anne - WinXP's autoconfiguration will assign an IP address in the 169.254 network - I see where you're going with this now :) It wasn't a fluke -...

Here's a pretty good resource, Jim - http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/ Good luck! -----Original Message----- Is anyone able to point to...

Hi, Mark - The "alternate configuration" under TCP-IP properties only comes into play if: * the machine is configured to get its primary address from a DCHP...

Hi - I'm afraid having WinXP and Win2k installed in the same partition is an unsupported configuration - there's no telling what could be wrong with the...

Hi, Lyall - There's no way in Windows XP to configure this, I'm afraid - and I've never heard of a third-party utility that could. That doesn't mean one...

Oh gosh Allan, I think I lost you somewhere! I actually have 7 machines, not 4! 3 x Win98SE desktops + 1 x Win98SE laptop..... connected through router and...

I have a portable computer running WinXp Pro and use it in three different networks: - peer to peer with win98 at home - win2000 domain at the office - win2000...

Ok, thanks again - sorry about the misunderstanding. I think one of my previous posts mentioned that people were talking about NetBeui - perhaps that's the...

I'm glad to help, Anne :) NetBEUI doesn't use IP addresses - and you can still leave the machine set to use NetBIOS over TCP-IP. The thinking behind this is...

I am filling out an online application to a company and want to paste or copy my word document resume onto it. How do I do this?????

have a strange problem with a couple of winXP pro machines on a win 2000 network. I was experiencing performance issues with these machines. This has...

I have a Gateway PC running XP. Connected is an HP printer via an USB cable. I have that printer shared out. I connect to the XP box with a Win2k Thinkpad via...

there are a couple of things you can try. The first I would try is running computer management from another machine on the network, use the run as command to...

I have just run the latest windows updates on 4 machines and have one that fails. After the update (which included a IPSEC update I beleive) I cannot connect...

Hello, I set up a Web Site on Windows XP Pro. I have created ASP programs at work that write records into a simple text file (on a Windows 2000 Pro machine),...

Check you LAN settings under network. Make sure you have the proper protocols installed and configured to match your network. -----Original...

I am experiencing some problems with connecting to the internet. There are times when it connects fine, but there are others when the connection appears to...

I have a dual boot installation (was win 98/xp home) is now win xp pro/xp home - two installs but the dual boot is now switched off. When I installed xp pro,...

I was trying to set up a GPO for a security setting for IE and noticed my XP workstation does not show all the options under User Configurations\Windows...

go into your connection properties an uncheck the 802.1x authentication. -----Original Message----- I list my SSID as the only preferred network. ...