I'm having trouble being able to network my notebook computer to my wireless network for file/printer sharing. The main problem is I'm getting this message under My Computer -> Properties -> Computer name. http://www3.telus.net/public/a5a796... It states "You must install networking before you can change this computer's domain membership" yet I assumed that networking was installed on the computer when XP was installed. Anyone have a solution to this problem? Thank you =)

jer3, find a networking tutorial @: www.homenethelp.com or http://www.pcstats.com/artvnl.cfm?a... maybe your answer's there? HTH. Ed in Texas.

Presumably you are using an access-router to both connect to your isp, and provide the wifi access-point...? Questions: Is the wifi connection enabled and correctly configured on the laptop? Is wifi enabled/active on the router? Can you acces the isp - via wifi/router? Regardless: A few tutorial/help resources with more detailed "how to etc..." http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308007 http://www.onecomputerguy.com/netwo... http://compnetworking.about.com/od/... http://www.geekgirls.com/windowsxp_... http://www.duxcw.com/faq/network/br...

Oh sorry for the lack of details. My laptop is working fine with my wireless connection via wireless router. The problem itself lies in the message I'm getting. "You must install networking before you can change this computer's domain membership". Once the blank area as shown in the screenshot is enabled, I should be able to enable file/printer sharing. I already successfully networked three other computers today(2 being notebooks) into the file/printer sharing network. It's only this one thats giving me problems.

mmm not at all sure what's happening here... A trawl using the error message you posted brings up a few hits... http://support.microsoft.com/defaul... suggests one possible cause - absence of Client for M$ networks...? Is that installed? Another solution suggests a removal of all network items for the problem laptop, reboot and re-install them. Presumably - as far as you can ascertain - everything you have done/installed re' networking on the other laptop(s) has been duplicated for this third one?