Sharing Wireless Internet On Home And Professional Editions
Feb 20, 2006
I'm trying to help a mate set up a wireless network to share his new adsl connection between 2 desktop pc's in different parts of the house. He has a modem/router and a switch/wireless ap device, and a usb wireless dongle each machine. Have had all sorts of problems, solved one by one, but for this last one. One of the pc's works fine (Win XP Home), while the other one times out with any internet access attemp (Wn XP Pro sp2). He doesn't need the pc's to talk to each other, only to the internet. one is his and the other his wifes, and they both have work stuff on their machines and don't do lan parties etc. He just wants to get online at the same time. From the machine that doesn't work, I can ping the other pc, the AP, and the modem router fine, but it can't find anything beyond the modem.
If I ping a domain name rather than ip address, it can't even find a dns server to resolve the name. I have spent hours going over and over all the settings. Both machines are set up identically in every respect (relevant to the network that is) but for the fact that one is XP Home and the other XP Pro. Both use only Windows Firewall, and in fact for testing, I've disabled firewall completely on the recalcitrant machine. Both use the same AP, switch, router and modem, and get their IP from the same dhcp server in the modem. I can't figure out why one is working, and the other isn't. My last "long shot" is some difference between XP home and XP Pro. I've never used Pro before, but figured that there shouldn't be a difference for the simple stuff I need to achieve here. but hopefully, I might be wrong?
I have a home wireless Linksys network, with 3 computers. Its intended purpose was to allow all 3 computers to connect to the Internet via an 11.0 Mbps internet connection via cable TV, which has been successful. However, I have never learned how to have one computer send info to another within my little wireless home network, a feature I would like to have, but which I have never explored. I have recently been messing with shared folders, placing two of the three computers on the wireless network, but have found it elusive as to how to put info in a folder to allow it to be shared by the other computer. I am unsure as to whether I have properly put each computer on the network. (Yes, I know I could put files on a disk in the A or D drive, which I have done, but I was of the impression that I could do things more efficiently this way, instead. Indeed, I would like to be able to download entire programs from one machine to the other. But lets keep it simple.) What I have done so far simply doesn't work.
I want to know your thoughts concerning both OS. Is there a big difference between the two, or is it slight? XP pro is tailored more for businesses but how about in areas of security, wireless connections, applications, crashes etc?
I just upgrade my xp home service pack 1 to professional service pack 2 using the upgrade option.now that I've upgraded, there are several things wrong with my system that I can't seem to fix:
1. Sometimes during shutdown windows hangs at the "saving your settings" dialog, I have to push the power button to have it power off.
2. Right clicking any files (on the desktop, in explorer, and even shortcuts in the start menu) will cause the system to lock up. I have to end task explorer.exe and restart it to get windows back. Special right click menus display without any problems (ie: my computer, recycle bin, desktop, start button)
3. Going into control panel > network connections will lock up the windows.
4. going into internet options > connections locks up just the internet options window.
I've tried uninstalling as many programs I don't need. A reformat is my LAST resort.
I have XP professional from my last computer (it's now inoperable) and XP home on my new PC. I'm not sure what to do or how difficult it is to upgrade my new computer to XP Professional with that same software.Just load and go? I know I do need to set a restore point, since there's not one yet.
Have XP Home installed on my present system and bought a full version of XP Professional . Can this be full version be installed over or should I say will this upgrade my XP Home without deleting any of my present programs and documents?
I recently had my computer crash. Then I had the misfortune of going to the wrong repair shop. Among other things, the tech, instead of reinstalling my Windows XP Home Edition from my disc, installed XP Professional from a disc he had.The tech also lost a lot if data and did some other things that I didn't like; I don't want to go back to him. I wonder what the best way is to get rid of Professional and install Home?What would happen if I just tried to install Home over Professional? Is there any way to downgrade from Professional to Home? I presume that what I have to do now is to uninstall XP Professional and then reinstall XP Home. Could I partition and put Home on a new partition and then uninstall Professional on the old partition? I know there is an abundance of websites that tell how to do a clean install, but could someone suggest one they feel is good?
I am running a Windows XP SP2 with 768 Ram and a 2.66 GHz Pentium 4 CPU. I recently purchased a 20GB Maxtor OneTouch II USB hard drive and it came with Retrospect HD to back up my comptuer. The program will not do anyhting if i click setup so I can set it up to back up my computer. It also says ''updating status'' the whole time. Ihave left it at this screen for a long time and still nothing happened. I downloaded and installed the updrade for this from Maxtor's website, and it is still doign the same thing. Any suggestions on how to get this prgram working so I can back-up my computer?
If I use this to back-up my computer, and I use its restore feature, will I get problems on my computer that I currently have? (the main problem is with Windows Firewall, becuase i cannot enable it. My ocmptuer got infected a couple months ago and ever since is says it is controlled by Group Policy. For more detals on my problem click here I am using ZoneAlarm, but it will not work with my home network for sharing files and printers even though I have the IP address unblocked).
its actually proffesional and the other one is windows recovery console and it always comes up now and it didnt before but if i dont press anything it automaticly goes to proffesional and i havnt installed it recently,its been installed but i hav uninstalled alot of unwanted microsoft programs like microsoft office,and all the programs i didnt use the only one i didnt uninstall was the net framwork
I have 5 hard drives in my system, but, at most only C and D (2 drives) really need to be enabled, so what I do is disable the other 3 by right click on the drive, select the appropriate drive and in the properties tag, select DISABLE THIS HARDWARE.When required, just enable it.Question is, when disabled, is power actually removed off that hard drive, or is there a quiescent current (small current) still flowing in the electronics of the drive that is disabled?
I currently have XP Home, 5.1 build 2600 according to dxdiag. I also have an XP Profesional CD, however the compatibility test on that CD says "Setup cannot continue because the version of Windows on your computer is newer than the version on the CD". So it seems I can't upgrade with the disc I have.I want XP Pro because I have 8GB of RAM, and I don't like Vista. Also I want to upgrade rather than fresh install so I can keep all the programs etc. I currently have. What are my options on upgrading to a 64 bit version of XP Pro? What do I need to buy?
I am using Windows XP Home edition. I want to use IIS and Windows XP Home edition does not include IIS. Therefore, I'm trying to upgrade from XP home edition to XP Professional. I have tried running the setup.exe from the Windows Professional CD but it gives an "error: 70077, paramater authorization failure".what should I do now to upgrade from XP home edition to XP professional?
I am trying to re-install XP HE over an unauthorized copy of XP Pro, why is it that when i reboot from the disk & i come to press F8 to agree with the terms nothing happens & all i can do is press escape to abort.My system is a P4 2.8 with 520meg of memory & and 80 gig HD.
I have two desktops and one wireless notebook running on win xp home OS on a home network using router. I recently bought a new notebook running xp-pro and I am unable to get it in the network to function with the other three. My main issue is that I have one printer which I use for all the pc's running on home they all print and are recognized on the network. I want to be able to use the new notebook that has xp pro installed so I can use the printer on the network.
I have an eMachines PC right now and am currently going to buy a new dell PC and give my eMachine to my brother. What i wish to do is remove Windows XP professional from my eMachines and replace it with the windows xp Home edition which will come with the new Dell, So that i can save money on buying a new Professional when my brother does not need the one on the eMachine.
I have two computers at home which has both WinXP installed. One has a internet connection(host)(DSL) and i wanted my other computer(client) to onnect through host internet connection. My host has 2 lan card installed one supposed to be for internet sharing. I already run WinXP Network Setup Wizard on both computers and both has same range of IP buth still i cannot share my internet connection.If I will be using cross cable connection, still anything else i need to configure aside from running Network setup Wizard and checking the Allow others to connect to this internet connection?Is it possible to use a hub to share internet connection, since I dont have a broadband router?How about using a wireless network because i do have one, how can i share internet using access point. How can i configure it? Is it also possible that i use hub so that i have my access point connect to it and i still have ports to connect using utp cable network.
HOW DO I OPEN WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL EDITION FILES ON MY WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION COMPUTER? i HAVE ALL MY TAX CLIENTS INFORMATION ON THESE ZIP DISKS BUT I SAVED THEM ON XP PROFESSIONAL, I GOT A NEW COMPUTER AND IT IS HOME EDITION AND I NEED THESE FILES
I seem to have a problem sharing the Internet between 2 pcs. The Internet connection lasts for a while & then, later on, it doesn't work. Is there any reason why this might be? The 2 pcs have Windows XP & they are both configured using the Network Connection Wizard. They should both work fine but they don't.
i try to share internet connections to play my xbox. Let me tell you what i am trying to do first and the error and i am getting. I have my internet connected threw USB dirctly to my modem. Then i have my crossover cable plug into my Xbox and the other end in my ethernet port.. And when i trying to bridge the connections i get a error on my xbox something about the DNS sever i try to fix that but i think its because I am not sharing my internet connection.. This is the error i get when i try. An error occurred while internet connection sharing was being enabled.The specified service does not exist as an installed service And here a screenshot of the error you can make it bigger for you can read it..
1. When I go to access my firewall I get an error saying "Windows firewall settings cannot be displayed because of the associated service is not running. do you want to start the windows firewall/internet connection sharing (ics) service?" I then hit yes and "windows cannot start the windowsfirewall/internet connection sharing (ics) service"I went to microsoft and found info on it but as I read all it seemed to say was "blah blah tech talk tech talk blah blah blah" I got no where...I really did try! Did something take over my firewall should I be scared?
I do not have an "Internet Connection Sharing" section when I go into the wireless network selection properties, and then click on advanced. All that is showing up is the windows firewall. I am using a Linksys Wireless G PCI network adaptor. I am on Windows XP, professional, 2002, SP2. Someone I know has the same system, but it is the media center edition and it has the ICS section under the advanced tab... I'm not sure if the media center edition has anything to do with it or not. Am I missing a driver? Is there anything that I can do about this?
i want to share a broadband internet connection between 2 computers. One is aready connected. what is the cheapest way to share the internet connection?
I'm trying to set my desktop up as computer that would allow others to connect through it. The desktop is upstairs and connects wirelessly to my router downstairs. I've loooked at some guides that explain how to set it up for sharing and they say to right click the connection, then go to properties, then advanced tab, and there will be the options for internet connection sharing. However, there are no options there that relate to "Internet Connection Sharing" only Windows Firewall with a "Settings" button.
I am doing volunteer work at an organization that is all volunteers. Since I have some IT skills they have asked me to manage their workgroups network of 8 computers. (This is really out of my field of expertise which is Oracle DB administration, but I enjoy the challenge of getting through the learning curve.)
To build up some hands-on knowledge and experience, I have acquired an extra computer and have installed Windows XP from scratch, i.e. on a completely re-formatted disk. I now want to connect it to our LAN in order to use printer and file sharing and our internet connection which is via a router (?residential gateway?).
How to config Internet Connection Sharing in Windows XP but the instructions do not seem applicabale to our configuration (please see the last paragraph above). I have also tried wokring with the chapter "Setting Up a Workgroup Network" in David Pogue's book, "Windows XP Pro, The Missing Manual". After all is said and done on the client as an administrator or non-administrator, any time I try to go to a webpage via Internet Explorer, I get the message "The page cannot be displayed".
How do i stop a particular computer(client) from accessing internet from host computer running internet connection sharing? i have shared Internet by Internet Connection Sharing on Windows XP SP2. i have other computers running windows 98SE, at first the computer didnt get configured automatically, i had to create a network disc and run it on each PC to get internet access on those machines. Now i want one of those PC to be not able to acsess internet.
Laptop one running winXP home edit. Connecting to broadband via usb client device. Connecting via rj45 crossover cable to. Laptop two running winME. I got to the point where I could actually run the "set up a home or small office network" on both computers, which enabled me to tenuously connect to the internet via the crossover cable. However, immediately after running the "set up....." on the XP machine it disabled the driver GUI for the usb client card. I was still connected, but couldn't see what I was doing.
There are many tutorials available out there, but there are so many permutations of OSs, hubs, client devices, and routers, that it's hard to find something that makes sense for me. I downloaded the "Microsoft Networking Guide" from msn and throughout it states in no uncertain terms that you must NOT use a crossover type cable. Yet in the help notes on the very same site there are plentiful hints on how to use a crossover cable. I'd like to use the crossover since it is "supposed" to be the simplest methond. But if I must go out and buy a hub device, I guess I must.
I had accidentally created a LAN connection, disabled, removed it, and had discovered the Internet Connection Sharing had disappeared, under the advanced tab of "Wireless Internet Connection". I have looked, and looked for a solution to this problem but can not find one. I had found a workaround, tried it, but it just caused my computer to freeze up.
I'm trying to share my internet connection with another connection. It's a wifi dongle for a wireless handheld. In order to get connectivity on this dongle, I need to share my connection. But when I attempt to do this, I recieve an error: "An error occurred while Internet Connection Sharing was being enabled This specified service does not exist as an installed service."
I'm using WinXP SP2 and I've searched on the Windows.com site for a while and downloaded some help files. But, it gives no indication on how to get ICS if you are getting this error. Does anyone have any tips or ideas on what I can try or how to get ICS? I've also reinstalled SP2, but I'm still not able to share my connection and recieve the same error. In Services I have Windows Management Instrumentation and Remote Access Manager but I don't have Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing listed.
My main computer's (XP, SP3) Internet connection is shared among 3 other machines via ICS. However, one machine (XP, SP3) - which runs a couple of P2P programs - usually loses its connectivity (even file sharing) after a few days. I'm running Kaspersky Internet Security on the main computer. I've tried disabling it (for testing purposes) to no avail. I've also disabled Windows Firewall on both machines with no improvement. Using a router is pointless because it freezes after a few days (due to the P2P programs). I've tried 4 or 5 different routers (even the "good" brands).
Is it simply an overload in terms of the number of connections possible? Does ICS, in principle, face the same problems as a typical router? Because I've even tried reducing the number of P2P programs to just one and also limiting the number of connections it makes. (Not to mention "fixing" the 'tcpip.sys' limit on both machines.) Any ideas what the problem could be and how to fix it?
