Saturday, 28 June 2008
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| Repairing Windows 2000 Professional Guest 01:05:59 |
| | I have a legal copy of Windows 2000 Professional. I can find the install key or serial number or whatever they call it but not the CD.
Actually, it belongs to a friend who asked me to fix it for him. Something failed to exit on logout so his wife cut the power.
It refused to even go to safe mode when he passed it to me, but I got a DOS prompt and installed all the updates on a Feb 2004 CD from Microsoft (hoping that the corrupt file would be one of the files updated).
Now it can boot into safe mode, but not 'regular' and when it fails, it fails to identify the corrupt file.
All the web pages I looked at for the error message (KMODE_something) disagree on the cause, and offer fixes that require installing this file or that.
HOW can I obtain (without spending a fortune) a CD or CD image that will help me fix this? |
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Thursday, 1 March 2007
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| vanguard.exe error on Linksys WPC11 v3 with Windows 2000 SP4 Spoonyfork 17:23:34 |
| | After installing the most recent driver from Linksys for the Linksys
WPC11 v3 wireless NIC on my win2k laptop (sp4) on reboot I would get a
message saying that vanguard.exe caused an error and a log was being
created. vanguard.exe is located at "C:\Program Files\Linksys\Wireless
Network PC Card". I searched the net and newsgroups and could only find
one other similar question but no answers.
I was able to resolve this issue by stopping the NICSer_WPC11 service.
Subsequent reboots no longer produced the vanguard.exe error. I could
not find any information on what vanguard.exe or the NICSer_WPC11
service are supposed to do. The WPC11 works just fine without
NICSer_WPC11 running. I hope this helps someone else.
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Monday, 16 October 2006
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| Edit R-Click menu in Explorer? Thomas Ponta 06:54:17 |
| | Over time, various programs have added items to the R-Click menu in Windows
Explorer. I'm running Windows XP Home w/SP-2.
Is there some way to manually remove some of these items, short of
uninstalling the programs in question?
Thanx:
Tom
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Thursday, 21 September 2006
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| Netgear GA302T vs GA311 copper wire? Z Man 20:26:10 |
| | I just spoke with Netgear tech support in an effort to determine the
difference between these two gigabit adapters. The tech support person
informed me that the 302 can achieve speeds of 2000mbps over copper wire,
while the 311 go up to only 1000mbps. My network has CAT5 and/or CAT5e
cabling, and I am upgrading to gigabit switches ad adapters. Question: isn't
all network cable made of copper? What does it mean when I am told that
'copper wire' can enable higher speeds? Should I buy new wire so that I can
double my speed from 1000->2000mbps?
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006
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| HELP! Invisible checkmarks in checkboxes Axlq 00:24:50 |
| |
Yesterday I noticed that checkboxes inside a list (such as in the
Windows XP Disk Cleanup utility) are all invisible! I can toggle
them but the checkmarks never appear. Checkboxes by themselves in
a dialog work OK; just the ones contained in a list have invisible
checkmarks.
To illustrate, see http://unicorn.us.com/alex/nocheckmark.gif
(a small 19K screen capture showing the problem).
This picture shows the Windows XP Disk Cleanup utility. The
'Temporary Internet Files' box is checked, but the checkmark is
invisible. You can tell it's checked because the total amount of
disk space gained is shown as 866 KB, just like that checkbox. I
can click on any of the boxes and the total at the bottom will
change, but no checkmarks appear.
This happens on any program that has checkboxes in lists (such as
SpyBot S&D advanced settings, when I first noticed this problem).
Three different spyware utilities (AdAware, SpyBot S&D, SpySweeper)
indicate that I'm clean.
A registry cleaner (TweakNow RegCleaner) didn't help.
When I reboot into safe mode, everything works fine!
But then when I reboot back into normal mode, the problem reappears.
I'm running Windows XP, SP2.
The only thing I remember doing yesterday was to install the K-Lite
codec pack, with the default settings. I can't imagine why that
would create a problem. Uninstalling it didn't help. System
restore is disabled on this machine.
Is there a corrupted DLL somewhere? Does anybody have any idea what
could be wrong?
Thanks. Please reply to the newsgroup.
-Alex
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Tuesday, 15 August 2006
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| Home network help Ace 19:49:42 |
| | Help!!!!!!!!!
My objective is to share a printer between two (2) desktop pc's , both
running XP sp2. The printer is an Epson Stylus Color 777. (Hopefully to be
replaced soon with Laser Printer???)
I purchased a Linksys printserver for USB with 4-port switch (Model PSUS4)
and EtherFast 10/100 LAN cards with corresponding Cat5e cables.
Thus far, I've been able to get the Printserver setup from one PC and print.
However, the 2nd PC won't find the printer during the Printserver setup.
Something about a cable not connected or ????
I'm thinking maybe the LAN card in 2nd PC may not be seated properly???
I've already swithced cables and plugged into different 'slots' of the print
server.
To digress a bit, I've found my McAfee Firewall has to be disabled in order
for the 1st PC to print. Ultimately, this is not acceptable. Is there a
solution where I can keep the firewall active? Both PC's have the McAfee
software.
Last, (maybe first???) is it necessary to set up a workgroup or something to
make the whole scheme feasable? Don't want to share internet connections,
but might want to transfer some files back and forth, or even play games
interactive.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Ace
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Monday, 14 August 2006
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| two routers in one network Charles MacLean 08:40:56 |
| | We need to install a second router (Linksys VP41) to establish a VPN router
to router with a customer. Presently we have an Adtran 624 that doesn't
support this type of connection so we have to add the second router (Linksys
VP41) just for the router to router VPN with our customer. Adtran does our
NAT and VoIP duties so it can't be replaced. Our network address is
192.168.2.0 and we are running 6 VPN client connections to other customers
that are mapped to some of our public IP addresses. All clients on the LAN
are connected to a single 3Com 48 port switch. All the workstations are XP
Pro or Win2K Workstation. We have four servers with static IPs one of which
is our DHCP server.
My question is does the network need to be subnetted so one router hands its
traffic to the next. In this scenario I envision the default gateway for
all the workstations and servers would be the Linksys 41s LAN IP address.
The Linksys in turn would use the Adtran as its gateway which would be on a
different subnet like 192.168.1.0. It in turn would route the traffic to
the Internet over our T1.
The problem is as soon as I insert the Linksys between the switch and the
Adtran all traffic to the Internet gets blocked. Is this correct logic?
What an I doing wrong?
Regards,
Charles MacLean
MTS, Inc.
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| Two Networked Computers Go Down Together W. Watson 08:09:10 |
| | I have two computers networked with MS network features. One runs W2000 and
the other XP Pro. Recently, both have died simultaneously, and then booted
up to the start up screen. Any ideas about what caused that? As far as I can
tell, there were no outages in the house and out building where the two
reside. They are separated by 100' of ethernet cable.
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39?° 15' 7" N, 121?° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
--
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method), White House--$318B (method??), Full Audit--$3.5T!!
(Corp. method) -- Source: U.S. Today (current forecasts)
Guess which one is most often given in the news? WH
Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>
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| dual router network Charles MacLean 03:39:50 |
| | We need to install a second router (Linksys VP41) to establish a VPN router
to router with a customer. Presently we have an Adtran 624 that doesn't
support this type of connection so we have to add the second router (Linksys
VP41) just for the router to router VPN with our customer. Adtran does our
NAT and VoIP duties so it can't be replaced. Our network address is
192.168.2.0 and we are running 6 VPN client connections to other customers
that are mapped to some of our public IP addresses. All clients on the LAN
are connected to a single 3Com 48 port switch. All the workstations are XP
Pro or Win2K Workstation. We have four servers with static IPs one of which
is our DHCP server.
My question is does the network need to be subnetted so one router hands its
traffic to the next. In this scenario I envision the default gateway for
all the workstations and servers would be the Linksys 41s LAN IP address.
The Linksys in turn would use the Adtran as its gateway which would be on a
different subnet like 192.168.1.0. It in turn would route the traffic to
the Internet over our T1.
The problem is as soon as I insert the Linksys between the switch and the
Adtran all traffic to the Internet gets blocked. Is this correct logic?
What an I doing wrong?
Regards,
Charles MacLean
MTS, Inc.
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| XP client of XP ICS master can only use the internet for Google! Guest 03:18:31 |
| | I have a weird problem here. I have two XP machines, one with a direct
connection to the internet and the other is setup as an ICS client. You
used to be able to browse just fine from the latter, but during the
last few weeks the internet has stopped working. In the course of the
investigation, I found something interesting - I can browse to any
google page, can search for anything I want to google, but cannot click
on any of the external links offered (though I can open an external
content page if it is cached by google).
Both machines run XP Professional SP2 and are patched with critical
updates. The ICS settings are correct on the client, and it is not a
general network problem as when I plug my laptop into the cable that
connects to the desktop client (that isnt working), the laptop can
browse the internet fine.
I heard it might be a Winsock issue, but I ran a utility to check this
and the results were fine. I also removed the computer from the
workgroup and readded it to no effect. Finally, I uninstalled the
network card and rebooted the pc to force it to reinstall, but this
made no change either.
This is really weird, so any light that can be shed upon this would be
much appreicated.
Thanks,
KC
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| Need to redirect command line output to USB printer Comcast News 00:37:05 |
| | I frequently run commands from the MSDOS command window on my Windows XP
PC. What I would like to be able to do is redirect the output of the
program directly to a USB printer
e.g. dir *.txt | usbprinting.exe
Does such a facility exist ?
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| Lauching Notepad From Command Script Nem 00:23:03 |
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Hi,
I wasn't sure which group(s) to post this question, so I've included two
that I believe are general enough and I have set a Followup-To
comp.os.ms-windows.misc. If there is a better group then the two I've
provided, it would be most helpful if you could mention it in your
reply.
I'm trying to launch Notepad from inside a BAT script and am running
into a problem. Here's the deets...
Justification For Test
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Notepad will be called from a BAT script followed by other commands, so
it is necessary to start Notepad as an independent process. START seems
to accomplish this with the /B switch, because if I used CALL it would
halt the script until Notepad was closed. Later in the script TaskKill
will be used to close Notepad.
Procedure For Test
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1) Open Command Prompt
2) type... START /B "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Notepad.exe"
3) Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up Windows Task Manager
4) Tab to the Processes list
Result From Test
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When I do the above procedure with WinXP, I see two "cmd.exe" in the
processes list. One for the original command prompt that I opened in
step #1 and the other for Notepad.exe as a result from step #2. Because
Notepad isn't shown, there is no way for TaskKill to later close
Notepad.
Question resulting from Test
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Is there a way to run Notepad from within a BAT script as a separate
process and display the executable's filename, "Notepad.exe", instead of
"cmd.exe" in the Task List?
Thanks,
--
NEM
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Sunday, 13 August 2006
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| Losing http://www connection but can still send/receive email??? Shooter 20:21:26 |
| | I'm trying to deal with a problem that is getting more and more annoying on
one of my XP computers. I keep losing access to the WWW via my browser
(Firefox and IE), yet Email still comes and goes via Outlook. My 2nd
computer (tied in to the same Linksys router) never loses its connection,
and all of my IMs on that computer stay online. On this computer, I
currently get "cannot connect to server" when I attempt to go to any web
address - but I'm able to send this message. I can ping my router, but
cannot browse to it. I can also ping websites from this computer, so that
confirms that I do have Internet connectivity - plus I'm able to get Email.
The only way I get http access again is to reboot. I have tried
disabling/reenabling my network connection, and also tried to "Repair" the
connection, neither of which have worked. I have run AdAware and Spybot as
well as Norton AV scans. (Spybot and NAV run/monitor continuously).
WindowsUpdate is up to date. I really don't understand what could cause this
type of problem. Can anyone offer any insight?
Replies CC'd to sender (or Reply To All) would be GREATLY appreciated, so
I'll see answers sooner. Also, if there is another NG which may be more
appropriate for my question, please advise.
Thanx,
Wm
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| Specific IP data to a specific connection when multiple connections running Ahmad Humyn 02:37:22 |
| | Hello everyone
I am going through some trouble, which I cant figure out how to solve.
I have a computer which I have to connect to a VPN through dial-up,
which I havedone pretty easily. But I have to remotely access that same
machine through LAN. The problem is that the machine when connected
simultaneously to the LAN and the dial-up VPN, doesn't send the data to
the VPN and recieve from it like it should, instead I think it directs
the packets to the LAN.
But the good part of the problem (which I think will make it easier to
solve!) is that when I use the dial-up to connect to the VPN, I just
want communicate with a specific IP. I think the problem just boils
down to how to send data directed to a specific IP to a specific
network interface / connection.
Any ideas.
Thanks to anyone who can help me out.
Regards
Ahmad
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| Hack to Put a Web Server On Mediacenter OS Rick 02:15:57 |
| | Is there any way to put a web server on the mediacenter edition of XP?
Thanks in advance,
Rick
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Friday, 11 August 2006
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| xp pro network and xp firewall Pete 18:05:54 |
| | Hi, I have a lan with 3 pc's, all xp pro.
When viewing network pc's there is a long wait 10-15 seconds before I can
see the shared folders.
With the xp firewall turned off there is no delay.
I have tried using the exceptions list and adding the other Pc's Tcp/ip
addresses, but there is still a delay.
Can you explain why and a work around, without having to turn the firewall
off?
Thanks
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| Strange errors in my D-Link DI-634M log today Don Naegele 16:05:59 |
| | Hi.
I have a D-Link DI-634M router.
While in my log today I noticed tons of errors, but everything is working
perfectly.
I'm getting this every 3 to 7 seconds from 3 different IP addresses:
Dropped packet from 169.254.1.82 to 169.254.1.255 that was received from the
wrong network interface (IP address spoofing)
The 3 IP addresses are 169.254.1.146, 169.254.1.82, and 169.254.1.188.
A call to D-Link suggested someone was accessing my router such as a
neighbor. I don't think that's correct. I have WEP encryption set on all my
devices, with a password none one could guess. I changed my SSID to
something no one would guess. I have SSID broadcast disabled, and I use MAC
filtering to only allow devices I've put in the router.
I did have FIOS TV installed the other day and they installed a Motorola
NIM100 (Network Interface Module) in my home near the router. I'm new to
this and can't find a manual for it.
I'm a bit lost when it comes to it's MAC address and IP stuff. The bottom of
the NIM100 has a HFC MAC ID that ends in 87 and also says cLINK MAC ID and
ends in 88. Does this mean it has two MAC addresses? Should I have both in
my MAC filter list?
When I added both of those to my MAC filters in my router setup (and
temporarly disabled MAC filters) I noticed my DHPC server assigned 3 IP's to
my STBs (Set Top Boxes), so I wrote down those and added them to my MAC
filters section to be safe and re-enabled MAC filtering.
After all that stuff everything seemed to work fine. I was NOT seeing any of
these strange errors in my router log.
The only reason I even looked in the log yesterday was because our Xbox Live
connection dropped at noon and I was trying to look for errors in the log. I
then noticed the new errors.
So my point is I'm thinking these errors probably don't have anything to do
with my new NIM100, but i'm not certain. I'm so new to networking that I
understand VERY little.
I'm a bit nervous about calling FIOS since they do NOT want people using
their own routers even though many online say they do just fine.
I'm so lost and feel that D-Link support was 'blowing me off'. It was
suggested initially that my network was unsecure and he lead me through
securing it, to which HE found out it WAS already secure.
Help.
I'm lost.
Don
p.s. Pardon the multiple posts. I'm not sure what newsgroup to ask for
help in.
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| GPO W2K,WXP & WiFi Marcin 13:13:16 |
| | Hi,
pls, resolve problem below:
WXP/ W2K with two interfaces: ETH i WiFi.
The point is with deactivate WiFi connection during ETH is connected (&
activate in case disconnecting ETH)
Thanks a lot for response.
regards,
Marcin
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| Receive an incoming, it's "established", yet scan says "closed". MSN v8 !! Q Q Anonymous 08:03:56 |
| | Receive an incoming, it's "established", yet scan says "closed". This
occurs with MSN v8 !!
(it may be true since v6).
I've had ethereal running the whole time.
I've verified this in the following way..
a friend sent a large file . his ip is like 71.4.5.2
I look for all incoming connections, (my ip is 192.168.0.2)
tcp.flags.syn == 1 && tcp.flags.ack==0 && ip.src != 192.168.0.2
And up comes that one, from my friend,
71.4.5.2:1118 TO 192.168.0.2:2344
so it's definitely an incoming connection and still running, you can
tell from that display filter. I used in ethereal. (or perhaps i'm
wrong?)
Now, I check on Netstat, (and "Active Ports"), That connection is
still established
From 192.168.0.2, I run a port scan via grc.com. scanning (my) port
my FW is off, so it's my NAT router blocking pings. Gibson's scanner
isnt' getting through my router but my friend is. all he did was send a
file through msn. Why isn't it open?!
I then try nmap from another computer on my LAN , it says Closed.
(makes sense not to say stealth- it didn't go through my NAT router,
and I had turned off the host based firewall on that machine. But, why
isn't it open!
I check netstat and "active ports" again. The connection is
established!! I'm not seeing things.
still the same connection
71.4.5.2:1118 TO 192.168.0.2:2344
I suppose something is not what it seems. I'll bet the router hasn't
opened port 2344. I didn't tell it to, and i've seen the settings it
has for msn, it didn't mention or include port 2344.
Yet an incoming was still possible.
or so it seems.
Am I missing something?
And I did ping it! If I use this display filter
tcp.flags.syn == 1 && tcp.flags.ack==0 && tcp.dstport == 2344
it shows 2 packets. The incoming connection. And the packet from nmap
that I sent from another computer on my LAN - which funnily enough said
closed. (at a time when the connection was still established).
this really has me stumped,
thanks in advance
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| no more lan connection through router pc Ubartsch@Googlemail.Com 07:44:15 |
| | Hia,
I have a starnge problem:
We have a Linux PC in the office which has two network cards and me and
a colleague connect our laptops through a switch to that Linux PC,
effectively using it as a router.
From one day to another with for no apparent reason my network connection doesnt work anymore.
- My friends laptop still connects to the internet, mine using the
exact same settings (other/same IP) wouldn't!
- I have tried different IP's etc...
- I can ping my frinds Laptop (from cmd) but not the router or any
other outside IP! (The IP forwarding doesnt seem to work?)
- If I run my laptop under linux everything works fine, so the network
card should be fine.
- I have downloaded the most recent driver from Acer, no effect.
Sorry guys I am running out of ideas! Any hint is more than welcome!
THANKS!
Cheers
Ulli
ipconfig /all gives:
(sorry german!, hope this helps anyway!) (Ja= Yes ; Nein = No)
Windows-IP-Konfiguration
Hostname. . . . . . . . . . . . . : dr_strangelove
Prim?¤res DNS-Suffix . . . . . . . :
Knotentyp . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unbekannt
IP-Routing aktiviert. . . . . . . : Nein
WINS-Proxy aktiviert. . . . . . . : Ja
DNS-Suffixsuchliste . . . . . . . : site
Ethernetadapter LAN-Verbindung:
Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix: site
Beschreibung. . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100
Integrated Controller
Physikalische Adresse . . . . . . : 00-C0-9F-26-67-A3
DHCP aktiviert. . . . . . . . . . : Nein
IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.4
Subnetzmaske. . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS-Server. . . . . . . . . . . . : xxx.163.66.70
xxx.163.246.9
xxx.163.246.3
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| help needed for Win 95 JJTwinCities 05:36:47 |
| | My old laptop gave a strange message to me, as I booted it up.
"NoteBIOS doesn't exist. Save to disk feature is disabled. Press any
key to exit."
I cannot get past the initial boot up sequence, before this message
appears.
I am unable to access my programs.
Any suggestions, solutions, resources?!
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| Networking problem Don W. McCollough 02:08:49 |
| | Hello. I am trying to get two computers networked.
One is WinXP sp2 (DESKTOP PC) and the other is WinXP Pro (HTPC).
I run the network setup wizard for both machines and
put the machines in the same workgroup.
My desktop computer sees my HTPC in
the Network Places, but when I try to access shared
folders, it halts saying " You might not have permission to
access...."
My HTPC sees my desktop fine and I can access
all the folders that I make shared.
For the life of me I can't get my Desktop to access
(any) the folders on my HTPC.
Anybody have any pointers, advice?
TIA
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| problem accessing network shares on Windows XP Pro Bn 02:05:00 |
| | Hi,
I've two PCs, ABC and XYZ, both are running Windows XP Pro, and both have
simple file sharing disabled. And I want to share a folder on ABC, to be
access from XYZ.
If I share the folder with permission for "everyone" (this is the default),
then everything is fine. I can access it from XYZ without any problem.
However, if I remove the permission for "everyone" and add permission for a
user on ABC, then I cannot access the share from XYZ. I can see the share on
XYZ, but if I try to open it, I get the following message:
\\ABC\share is not accessible. You might not have permission
to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this
server to find out if you have access permissions.
Access is denied.
there was no prompt for username and password.
If I right-click on the share, then click on "Map network drive", then click
on "different user name", and enter the username and password for whom I
added permission on ABC earlier, then I get the following message:
The network folder specified is currently mapped using a different
user name and password. To connect using a differnt user name and
password, first disconnect any existing mappings to this network share.
I got this even though I didn't have it mapped or connected. What am I
missing here ?
Thanks.
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| Network Places Rtm 01:21:14 |
| | I have three computers on a home network. One is hardwired to the wireless
router. The other two have wireless connections. All three can access the
internet. Wireless 1 can see shared folders and printers on the hardwire and
visa versa. Wireless two cannot see any other computers on the network. All
3 computers can ping each other with IP addresses. Wireless one and Hardwire
can ping each other by computer name. Wireless two cannot ping names of the
other two. Workgroup name is the same for all. Firewalls have been disabled
for all with no change in result. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
I did search but could not find a solution although I presume this is not an
unusual problem. Maybe I'm a bad searcher as well as a bad networker!
Thanks in advance for any help.
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| USB-Stick writeproteced Gerd 00:32:55 |
| | Hi,
I have some trouble with my usb-stick. At the customers office I let
the secretary print a few documents from the stick. I don't know what
exactly she did, but now Windows (2k, XP) tells me that the stick is
write protected (there is _no_ switch to physically protect it), and
there is a file named "EA DATA. SF" that is locked by Windows.
I never heared that windows uses a file with this name, and I don't
know how to remove it.
I even don't know how to write protect/unprotect an usb-stick on
windows (at least if there is no hardware switch).
And I don't understand why I can't remove the write protection while
I'm logged in as administrator.
Can someone help me?
Thanks.
Gerd
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