Home network XP can see Vista but Vista can''t see XP

Hi relyuhs,

Try this, I have the same problem exactly. Downloading now.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4F01A31D-EE46-481E-BA11-37F485FA34EA&displaylang=en

Hope it works.

It'sMeAgain at 2007-10-3 >

relyuhcs wrote:

What am I missing? I installed the Vista network discovery download to my XP laptop. Norton Firewall was my second snag, and I turned it off. Now my old XP laptop has access to all shared resources on my new Vista laptop, but the Vista machine can't see anything on the XP. The Vista network map shows the hard drive of the XP machine, but I can't access it.

Did you enable Printer and File Sharing on your network card by going to My Network Connecions > Right-click > Properties > Network card name > Right-click > Properties > File and Printer Sharing > check-mark > OK.

Type the PC name on your Vista laptop under Start > Run (WinKey+R) > \\Pcname > OK, and it should load the PC name in a window.

Congradulations! your Vista Laptop can view your Windows XP Shared Hard drives, folders, files, adn/or printers.

Worked for me.

I was trying to connect to both of the basement PCsone with WinXP Pro and other WinXP Home, but I have to install my new hard drive in my bedroom PC which is going down the drain (corrupting).

And that's how you do that.If you have any qestions or comments, please feel free to e-mail me or quote this message, but without the text that's under the dashed line.

MicrosoftRocks!!! at 2007-10-3 >

OMG! I bought a new Dell laptop in April and have struggled with this problem ever since! Dell spent many hours on the phone with me, and concluded that there was no reason that it shouldn't be working and offered me a $50 voucher! The one thing they did want me to try, which I didn't, was to reformat and reintall XP on the desktop. Are you saying that's what you did and it worked?

I have tried everything else and was going to use that as a last resort, and now it's really an issue that I can't access files and printer on the desktop from the laptop, so I guess I need to resort to the "last resort!"

Lee811g at 2007-10-3 >

This forum is for network development. For general network connectivity help use the MS network newsgroups for your OS

http://www.microsoft.com/communities

AndreasJohansson at 2007-10-3 >