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Does anyone know why, when I type \\hompc23\c$, i get a dialog box to enter the username for the Guest account. I have no option to enter any other username. In the username field, hompc23\Guest is suppressed and shaded out so I can't enter my username, or any other for that matter. Do I...

does anyone know how to add a "computer description" for windows 2000 pro clients? I know for xp, you can right click on my computer, go to properties and select the "computer name" tab and there's a field for "computer description". We have a simple workgroup...

Hello, I have a Laserjet 5si with built-in 4MB of RAM. Whenever I print large files, it warms up, prints one page then stops, warms up, and prints the second, warms up, prints 3rd, etc, etc. This seems to only happen when I print off the internet. I tried printing a word doc that was 5MB and...

hello, I have two questions. 1) At home I connect to my work cpu via vpn. (both cpus involved in tunnel are xp pro) I then map H: to \\hompc01\c$ and it works. How come I can't browse into my profile in the "Documents and Settings" folder? I can browse anywhere else but there. I...

Does anyone know why it would take up to 30 seconds, sometimes almost a minute, just to display my workgroup? Would it go quicker if I added everyone's computer to my hosts file. It seems like there should be an easier way to do this. I'm running XP pro, and the rest of the cpus on the...

can someone give me a quick explanation of the differences between the sharing tab, and the security tab? I took off simple file sharing on xp pro and am having trouble accessing some shares. Does the user you want to give access to a share have to be in the sharing tab (under permissions) and...

Hello, I'm upgrading all our 98 machines with 2000 and some XP. Some of the 2000 cpus can get as far as the workgroup, but when I go in it, there are no computers in the workgroup. I have internet connectivity, but can't browse the workgroup. Even if I try the UNC, it still doesn't work...

Hello, I have two machines that used to have win98 and Outlook 2000 on them. They are now xp pro machines with Outlook 2003 on them. They can send and receive mail within the organization, but cannot receive mail from hotmail, yahoo, or any other email. He is even able to send mail to...

As the subject of this threads states, I've connected to a vpn but I lose internet right after. I'm running xp, and the computer I'm connecting to is 2003 server. Can anyone help?

Hello, I'm trying to set up vpn access to my 2k3 server at work. When I add the VPN/RRAS services, I lose internet connectivity. I think I need to configure something in the DHCP relay agent because I got some message about it right before the installation of VPN/RRAS ended. My problem is I...

Does anyone know why I wouldn't have access to my own documents? This is the error I get: C:\Documents and Settings\Dan\My Documents is not accessible. Access is Denied. running xp

"The network path was not found" Does anyone know why I would get this error when I try to remotely shutdown a computer in a workgroup? Everyone's running win98, I'm running XP pro. Thanks in advance.

Does anyone know if there's a way to hide the netmeeting icon in the system tray. I have remote desktop sharing enabled on all the cpus here at work for admin purposes, and the end users somtimes mess around with it and turn off remote desktop sharing. It's getting really frustrating. Thanks...

Hello, I'm trying to create an image with Drive Image 7 and I get this error: Error E7C3000F: Device \\.\PQV2iSnapShot0 cannont read 1,704 sectors starting at LBA 3,541,436. Error 00000017: Data Error (cyclic redundancy check). (0xE7C3000F). I know there are bad sectors and am wondering...

Hello, I have to xp computers. One has two NICs that's running ICS for the other cpu. The other cpu on the private side has IIS ftp service set up on it. On the gateway cpu, I have the basic firewall on so I can modifiy ports, etc. I added a service called ftp and assigned it to 192.168.0.2...

Can anyone explain, in detail if needed, what the capture printer port feature/option is in win98? I have an idea, but not fully clear on it. I have a cpu sharing a laser printer, and the two cpus accessing the shared printer keep getting an error message when they try and print. Something...

Hello. Does anyone know why a win98 cpu would just restart itself, then on startup the screen remains black? If I turn the computer off for a while (30min - 1hr) it usually works again. Is there a setting that's working the video card too much and it's overheating? I'm not sure what kind of...

I have w2k3 server setup at home for testing with AD, RRAS & NAT, DNS. I also have netmeeting set up and remote desktop sharing enabled so I can work on while at work. For some reason, when I ping the home server, I get absolutely no response. I've done this with no problem on w2k servers...

I recently installed server 2003 and my problem is this: I don't know how long it takes, but after a while, I no longer have internet connectivity. I can't ping anything outside the network. If I restart, everything works again, for a while. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan Borchert Network Admin/Web...

I just installed win2k3 server with AD. I have a laptop that I want to connect to the domain. I have added the user and computer to the AD users & cpus as Domain admin, and domain users (defaul). When I try logging on with the laptop, I get this: "The system cannot log you on now because...