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I'm having a strange issue.
I have two PCs, one in the office and one in a bedroom, both running windows xp.
The office pc is plugged into the router, and the bedroom pc has a wireless connection.
When I start the office pc, outlook 2000 works perfectly. As soon as I start the bedroom pc, outlook no longer downloads emails. It says it cannot find server pop.gmail or whatever. Internet works 100% though.
The only way to fix it is to restart outlook.
It's only been doing this since I create a home network.
Here are the rest of the details:
The office pc doesn't have a wireless adapter.
The bedroom pc dual boots windows and Deepin (linux), but defaults to Deepin.
So the first thing I did was run the wireless network wizard. It gave me an option to connect to the ubuntu network. So I thought why not.
That didn't work, so I ran the create a home network wizard on both pcs and was then able to connect.
(I don't know what creating a wireless network did, because there doesn't seem to be any way to manage it from control panel. Tutorials tell me to go into control panel > Network Connections and it should appear there, but but the only listings under LAN and high speed internet is Local intenet connection. There is no wireless connection as though it was never created.)
Now when ever I boot up the bedroom pc, outlook stops working, But the strange thing is, I'm booting into linux deepin, which connects to the router, but isn't networked to the office box anyway.
Anyone seen anything like this?
Edit* I see that Deepin can access the network after all.
I have two PCs, one in the office and one in a bedroom, both running windows xp.
The office pc is plugged into the router, and the bedroom pc has a wireless connection.
When I start the office pc, outlook 2000 works perfectly. As soon as I start the bedroom pc, outlook no longer downloads emails. It says it cannot find server pop.gmail or whatever. Internet works 100% though.
The only way to fix it is to restart outlook.
It's only been doing this since I create a home network.
Here are the rest of the details:
The office pc doesn't have a wireless adapter.
The bedroom pc dual boots windows and Deepin (linux), but defaults to Deepin.
So the first thing I did was run the wireless network wizard. It gave me an option to connect to the ubuntu network. So I thought why not.
That didn't work, so I ran the create a home network wizard on both pcs and was then able to connect.
(I don't know what creating a wireless network did, because there doesn't seem to be any way to manage it from control panel. Tutorials tell me to go into control panel > Network Connections and it should appear there, but but the only listings under LAN and high speed internet is Local intenet connection. There is no wireless connection as though it was never created.)
Now when ever I boot up the bedroom pc, outlook stops working, But the strange thing is, I'm booting into linux deepin, which connects to the router, but isn't networked to the office box anyway.
Anyone seen anything like this?
Edit* I see that Deepin can access the network after all.
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