Vista Networking

Venky-

Thank you for being here and ASKING for people to post problems. I'm about half crazy dealing with my computers at home.

I have a year-old Gateway MX8734 (Vista Home Premium) laptop to which I've added another GB of RAM (2GB total). Network and Sharing says I'm connected, but I can't get Internet Explorer OR Firefox to do anything. I get the "cannot open the page" error message. I managed to get Windows LiveMail to collect my email for me a few days ago, but that was an isolated success. I can't tell you what any of the settings are, as I've been into a lot of places I never thought I'd see and I have made changes I can't even tell you about.

I am now using an HP a1020n desktop using XP Home, to which I've added another GB of RAM, for a total of 1.5GB. It's connected to the router with a cable. Works fine.

I had several weeks of frustration trying to connect, to no avail. I could connect with the desktop but not the laptop, then I could't connect with either one even if I hooked straight into the modem.

My wife got tired of my gritching about it, so she went to BestBuy and came home with a Netgear WPN824 and two Netgear wireless adapters. I didn't want to open the boxes, as I didn't think we needed them and that we could return them for credit. She bought herself an HP laptop. It works and connects to the internet, mail, etc.

Saturday night I went in to BestBuy to ask their tech people what might be the matter and was told my network card is shot and that I needed to replace it. Kindly soul that she is, the lead tech reset everything to default and wiped out all my settings, passwords, etc.

I came home and opened the boxes, hooked up the Netgear router and the Netgear adapter. The desktop works & connects well with the new router. My laptop with the new adapter, STILL won't connect, darnit. Actually, it DOES connect. It did connect all along; I can't do anything with it.

My son and daughter upstairs have identical all in ones (running XP Home) with Linksys wireless adapters. He can connect, she can't.

I'm sorry this has been so very wordy. Your post has a timestamp of real early this a.m. I can't be up that late tonight, as I have to be at work at 0600.

Please help me. Thank you for your kindness and your willingness to help others in distress.

Have a great day today and a better day tomorrow. Stay safe, and may God bless. I wish you His peace.

Dan

I have a business network with a domain and we have mostly Windows XP computers connected and only about 6 with VISTA. The XP computers connect to the internet with no problems but the VISTA ones only connect intermittently. I can find nothing wrong with the network connection but it only connects locally and refuses to connect to the Internet. Any ideas as to why that should be happening?
I am running out of hair to pull out!!

I have a laptop with vista connected to my lan. I can connect to all computers in my store by wire and wireless with the vista machine. I can't get the vista machine to get to the internet. I can connect to the internet using the same wire that I would use for the vista machine and I can connect to the internet wirelessly with an XP laptop so I know that there is no configuration issues with my VPN. I have the firewall completly disabled and still no connection. Any Ideas

I have a new HP Pavilion dv9700t laptop with Vista Home Premium - SP1, connected to my home network through a Linksys WRT300N router. The laptop has an Intel 2.6ghz processor and 3gig RAM with a B/G/N-compatible wireless network adapter. All of the latest Vista updates are installed, as are the latest drivers I can find for the network devices. Access to all my network devices and printers is working fine.

The problem is that when I try to use Explorer to copy files from my XP SP3 desktop to the laptop (it doesn't matter if its via wire or wireless), large files or large numbers of files cause the copy to choke. Sometimes the copy starts, but then dies partway through. There are no errors... the copy just hangs. Canceling the copy doesn't work either... I have to resort to rebooting the laptop.

I have been trying to network an HP Paviliion Desktop running XP (wired)with a Toshiba laptop running Vista (wireless) through a Netgear router. Occasionally I get perfect connectivity both ways for 10 minutes or so. Then it's back to days on end of re-inventing wheels to get another 10 minutes. Should I stop banging my head, or is there actually a way to do this with some degree of permanency?

Hello Venky! I have SBS2000 for domain controller and after regular updates past week all of my Vista computers loose connections whith DC and cant connect anymore!
If I try to browse only DC: \\(name of computer) the rezult is:
\\(comp. name) 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 permisions. The account is not autorized to log in from this station.
/From XP log works, and I am the admin and have any permissions/
If I try connect to DC: \\(name of comp.)\d$ the rezult is:
Network error. Windows cannot access \\comp. name\d$
Check the spelling of the name......
Error code:0x80004005
Unspecified error

Do you have any ideas what's going on?