Networking Forum

I was just wondering, I keep on seeing other posts telling them to either modify hosts/lmhosts/*.sam files. What are these files for, I know they're for networking for windows, but what exactly are they? I', just very curious..

Is it possible to have a DOS based system connected to my home network? It has a NIC and I have an available port. The system would be used for PC maintenance such as downloading files, patches and doing scans before copying to my other systems. Thanks...

i have a game and my computers are already networked.. ive already installed the right protocol thing and in the network settings it says socket number and destination network and i dont know what that is and what to put in those two blanks so i cant play my friends …

Hai, How can i get the Computername by Ping Command When i know the IP number. (I.e) IP number 10.3.34.86

I have another computer here that will not connect to the network. I was thinking that it might be the settings, so I changed them to the corrdct ones and it still does not work. There is a light on the back indicating that there is a connection, but no …

is it posible to link computers together like a hive so that one processor can use all the computers memorys at once. thus a extremly fast pc? this is just a question i dont inted doing it but the theory sounds cool! :cool:

Well... that laptop went up to get connected with it's server again (several hundred miles away from me). I had added the server to it's c:\i386\hosts file and set the ip on the server to the same. (since that worked to see my home network perfectly) and the call comes …

Hi :) I would like to know if it's possible to link 3 computers without any hub ou switch, in case one of the computer has 2 network cards. example: 192.168.0.1 => 192.168.0.2 // 192.168.0.3 => 192.168.0.4 1st computer ------ 2nd computer ------- 3rd computer Is this scheme possible ? …

does anyone know of a good site to buy domains with a lot of space? My group is looking to setup a website with a lot of space we are a non-profit organization called buckeye brook colliliton we are trying to protect the watersheds of warwick RI. any help would …

I have an airport base station (snow) administered wirelessly by my Powerbook G3 (Firewire) running Panther. This basestation distributes ip addresses, and client computers share a single ip address using DHCP and NAT. This allows 3 computers to share a single PPPoE phone line high speed internet connection. The other …

I can't seem to send or recieve files and don't know how to configure the router to serve files

Is novell downloadable like linux or unix is like if I went to novell.com can you download it or do you have to buy it in the store like windows? thank you for your help

This site is currently being run off of a (slow) dedicated server. A Pentium III 450 Mhz machine with 128 mb of ram. It has been for all of ONE DAY. I thought this would be enough for only these forums, but apparently not. All 128 megs of ram are …

I set up a wireless network using a D-Link DI-614+ access point, cable modem and cabled XP pro PC. Everything seems to work fine except web pages with drop down boxes or text boxes always time out. I first noticed when I tried to open a yahoo email account. Also …

Well, we have one intranet at home where several systems are connected to our main server which holds the backups for the connected systems, with backups I mean personal files and not the programs or operating systems. Anyway, due to security, there are several layers of connectivity before this server …

recently i bought a wireless network card so i can connect my notebook and desktop together P2P. I am able to get a connection but thats where it ends. Cant share files, cant ping, cant do anything with eachother.. Ive sure ive installed everything properly since my notebook and desktop …

i have an IBM Thinkpad T40 with an internal Intel NIC and a Linksys 802.11b router. I will have a connection for a few minutes and then it will be lost. Other people have had this same problem, but i didnt see a conclusive method for resolving the problem. Thanks.

I have this problem: my computer is over a network and it can access some sites for other sites it tells me "Page can not be found" but when I open the same page on a different computer, it opens. What could be the problem. Its like it selects which …

I just bought a 12" PB and want to move all my iTunes music across to it from my PC I have an ethernet cable and thats about it. I do have iDisk as well. Any help would be much appreciated. Running Panther and XP Pro Cable internet

HI , i''m trying to get to my computer over the internet and i can't do it . I'm working with access remote pc 3.9 and i have a problem with my ip address because my ip addess is 192.168.1.97 and i can't get to this address over the internet …

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I have a wired/wireless network. laptops are wireless but the 2 desktops are hardwired. I have a router. All of a sudden I lose the network connection for about a second. You don't notice it when you're online browsing and such, but you sure notice it when you're online gaming …

I've had a Linksys 4 port router working fine with 4 computers attached for about a year. Had a bad storm and no computer could connect to internet. Just figured it got fried and bought a new Linksys 4 port router, same model. Hooked everything back up. But only 3 …

Can someone shed some light on this.. XP Pro Problem I have. My Kids installed Kazoa and Limeware, they were causing a strange problem with my internet connection. for some reason I had a connection called "internet gateway" in my "network connections" folder and I could not get rid of …

Hello. I am very new to programming, and obviously very ignorant to the details that follow. So I will have many questions on a variety of subjects in my time using this forum. My first question, however, should be very simple. Is online hosting from a different site better than …

does cox allow you to host your own webserver on their network? And does any one know how to set up the members space they give you with your account? (ie. [url]http://members.cox.net/techtalkforums[/url])

I have a remote pc on a dsl line. it is dynamic ip and I want to access it from another location. I have a router in place. the IP always changes is there an easy way to get the ip. it is running win 98se.

Now, I'm sure I'm offending about 100,000 people by making this post, but "suck it up." Novell (and Windows, for this case) will defeat Linux. Maybe not in a year, but it will come eventually. Why? When you go to a store (or e-store), you can go and pick up …

Im kinda of a newbie to wireless networking however i have a few questions I cant seem to find the answers on the net. given a good or worse Wireless PCI Adapter what is the maximum range they can communicate to wireless router inside a house. Guessing the house has …

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I have a computer that use to use xp but I had to reformat it so it has windows 98 on it now and I dont know how to renetwork it again. My other computer that is in the network runs off of win xp. I am not familiar with …

Wow it seems every post I read starts out with "Hey I am a newbie to this, I need some help" then it is continued by a long long long paragraph without any commas, periods, and so on. Well here I go, but i'll try to keep it short and …

I just noticed that whenever I go to a certain website (I've not noticed this with any other website...ever), it gives me the "this page can not be displayed" error message. That in itself isn't a big deal...except now I can not go to ANY pages after that. All I …

I have a direcway satellite internet service. I want to hook it up to a router. The conection out the of the modem is usb. Can i get a usb to Ethernet router to do this.

I'm tryng to connect my Linksys 4 port router to my Motorola SB4200 SURFboard. My problem is I can't get past step one. It says to connect the ethernet cable to the modem. Well, my modem only has one port for this size cable which is needed for the internet …

I have a new Linksys Wireless-G WAP. I'm trying to figure out how to set it up so that rather than all surfing traffic on the network showing up as the Static IP that is assigned to the WAP, I'd like it to just appear blocked. Any thoughts?

I have 1mbit cable connection which can reach 150k without problems when ever i download from the internet through explorere or DAP which is great, BUT when i use programs like Kazaa, Bit Torrent, Overnet it can only download at 20-30k no matter what, i noe its not my line …

I have 5 computers running with IP address 192.168.x.x. Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0. While doing the network checking for the TCP/IP communication, I ping to respective com, and are succeccfully with all the reply to respective com. But on the next day, The 5 computers are lossing communication and unable to …

Ok heres the situation. I am working in a small office network situation, and everything worked fine before last night when I installed a new copy of WinXP (because I needed SP1 [which requires legal copy]). Well now the main computer can nolonger access internet, or the network, but the …

In college all we did was we networked servers together... I am about to network 3-4 computers in my home and I was just wondering if there was any way that I can connect them straight through a hub, without a server. I'm sure that some people are laughing at …

Hi All looking for a few words of wisdom. just replanning my networkand thinking of what kit to get. i'm looking to get 1x mass store/fileserver (posabily for streamimng media) 1x webserver 1x terminal server just wondered if any of you have any advice on the spec's for these types …

i have verizon dsl and when i go to task manager and check network and stuff it always goes up and down when i play games online it does the same thing maybe i have a virus but i have mcfee what would it mean if it kept going up …

I am running a long run (approx. 250-275' to a switch and then another 250-275' to another switch) Each end switch will be connected to a computer. I would like to know which type of cables I should use. The wire will be sealed inside PVC pipe and buried. The …

Before I begin, i'll have to say i'm totally computer retarded so anywho. First of all my File sharing is disabled - how do I enable it again, I can't find the setup wizard in Connections. I'm using a Microsoft Broadband Wired Base Station MN-100, I seem to have a …

I am having a problem connecting to the internet from a computer that I am adding to my LAN. Here are the details of what is happening: I have a LAN and am accessing the internet through a wireless broadband connection. My network consists of three computers

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I have a cable internet connection via USB and cable modem. I installed an ethernet card to connect via ethernet. I plug the ethernet cable to my computer and to the cable modem and no internet. Do I need to change the settings on my computer in order to connect …

Hey, I currently operate a routed, wired home network. There is one XP, and two 98SE PCs on the network. I'm using a Linksys router. I'm trying to add a new Compaq notebook PC to the network (operating on XP). During installation, I set everything up to automatically get the …

i am trying to get 2 systems to talk. i want to use the printer on the computer down stairs(the win98 PC) from my main system upstairs and laptop(win2000 systesm) i have a D-link 614+ router, if that means anything. i have my network named 'home' what do i have …

I am trying to make my home machine a webserver for a project I am working on. Here is my configuration Windows XP Professional Linksys Router I set up my IIS server 5.1 to listen the default web browser on port 200. I have also tried 1000 8000 9000 2333 …