Recent content by jlinker

Yeah, I know the feeling. My old P4-ready motherboard had a Realtek NIC on it, and I installed the "latest" drivers available. I suddenly experienced massive spikes in latency, frequent packet loss, and under 10kb/sec downloads with the 5mbps (advertised) cable that we had at our house. I...

The only thing I could find that would come around would be when I did something my network card didn't like, and caused a BSOD with nvnrm.sys. If I were to change any of the settings on it, other than using Windows to manually install drivers, it'd BSOD. I finally had to go into safe...

It's fixed. Like I said, it was the driver version and a known issue with the version / SP2. The firewall was disabled, and has been so; I've already said that.

You might want to explain "booting machines willy nilly", as that statement makes no sense. I got it working, with node type as mixed, actually. It turns out to be an odd issue with the 5.11 Forceware Ethernet drivers. THere's a *.sys file that's commonly causing BSODs under certain...

Both do, sorry. I've also tried with the same account name/password on both. Spider, \\ip\ doesn't work. It's been said a already. Have you considered reasons for not loading NetBEUI? It's an outdated protocol that wasn't loaded with default installations because of that. Hell...

If I go into my command prompt and ping the IP of both the computers, I get an active response <1ms. If I do a ping from my computer to my computer using the NetBIOS name, it's reads properly. If I ping OMEGA (netBIOS name) from my computer (my roomate's machine), I get an error that it...

When connected to the switch I can ping. When connected to our ResNet, I can ping. I have files set to share, and the permissions are both set to allow read access to anyone, but write access is disabled.

As stated before Firewall Off. I unbound Windows Firewall from our LAN connections, but the "File Sharing" is still checked in the allowed list, even though the firewall is disabled. No Firewall installed. Our college network doesn't require any extra client; it's all windows-based...

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Well I'd rather keep with TCP/IP, but if I really have to, I can always try NetBEUI or something else. I haven't heard of any issues with current XP updates either, but I do find it peculiar that I've had functional networking until I install a system with new updates. Any ideas as to...

I also use my roomate's printer, so Windows Networking seems to be the easiest solution. RebateMonger, Ok I just put both of our computers on a switch I had laying around in my room. I noticed that, in my event viewer, under normal "problematic" conditions I see Error 8003 Omega...

I posted this at HardOCP earlier, and after a few days, none of us were able to come up with any solutions. Here's the post from there with extras added. I'm getting frustrated about this issue. I should start by saying we're on a college network, so my knowledge of the physical connection...

Tattoos hurt and don't tell the time. A watch doesn't hurt (unless it grabs some hair, or shocks me somehow), and it should tell the time fairly well. :)

Good deal on the watch; I needed one, too! Thanks, although I paid more for shipping than the watch. (Damn my leaving this area in a few days...)

Edit: Errr, nevermind. Ignore post.