Recent content by vonschlieffen

You can setup an ad-hoc network between the two computers (a friend and I set one up between our notebooks during econ class everyday) and then I think you should be able to setup internet connection sharing on one of them, but as said above, a router or other gateway is probably the best way.

I want to password-protect the shared folders on my network. Running XP Home, I know that the "normal" way (using permissions) is not avaliable the way it is in XP Professional. Searching the internet for a solution, I have come across only one, which takes advantage of the fact that XP Home...

Have you run the Network Setup Wizard? You can reach it by opening up "My Network Places" and selecting "Setup Home Network" or something like that. Try that, and if that doesn't work, make sure that you have the right network protocols installed on each machine (my laptop was missing NetBios...

Oh, I see. I never thought of the firewire ports as networking devices, but I suppose they could be used that way.

After a successful session with Ming over MSN Messenger, everything is working perfectly. Ming walked me through the network wizard, selecting the options that worked for him. I didn't connect the ethernet cable while running the wizard, and selected that I wanted to select what...

It works fine when it's just the wireless or when its just the ethernet, it's when have both enabled that it just goes and goes... I always have just run it as "wireless only" (except when I only had a wired router, of course) After I run it that way (wireless only) should I reboot and run...

The ethernet was connected and the wireless was turned on when I ran the wizard. I thought that was what I was supposed to do? :confused: I did not delete the bridge (forgot about that suggestion) So should I just run the wizard, with both connections enabled, let it go until it seems...

I bought an HP ze4430us in september with integrated wireless (not centrino though) and have been very pleased. It ended up costing me like $1,000 USD after rebates, but I'm not sure how that compares to pounds. A friend of mine bought an old IBM Thinkpad (originally shipped with Windows 98)...

I'm not sure what you're asking, I'm not new to computers, but networking is a new frontier for me. I tried rebooting and running the wizard again, but the results were the same, with the creation of the bridge, and the maintaining of internet/file sharing. I again ended the task, but in...

So should I just end the task, because it's still running. There isn't any activity over either connection either, except when I access a shared resource or the internet

How long should the wizard take to complete? Looking at Network Connectioins, the bridge has been created, and it seems to be accessing the internet and shared folders through the ethernet connection rather than the wireless, but the wizard is still running, and has been for a long time. It's...

If you were to disable file and print sharing, wouldn't that also disable the file sharing we're attempting to speed up?

I don't have a software firewall enabled on any of my connections. Just to be clear before I run the wizard, what options should I select? I too have DSL. The modem is connected to the router, which has an ethernet connection to the desktop. The bizzare thing is that in order for my...

You could be right, and the first tweak has no effect. I applied both at once (not smart, I know) so I'm not sure which one had the greatest/only effect.

What would be the easiest way to go about file sharing through both a wireless and a wired connection? Wirelessly, file sharing works fine. When I turn off the wireless card and use ethernet, Internet works fine, but file sharing does not. I think it's because the Network Setup Wizard asks...