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Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Vista Networking. For specific hardware-related issues, please use the Windows Vista Hardware forum 0 0. Sign in to vote. Hello all, I apologise for asking another question on networking between Vista and XP, I've read through a whole bunch of threads and tried to follow the tips etc but I'm getting nowhere so thought I'd ask for specific help. I have no clue about networking, so please bear with me!

Any help would be greatly appreciated, Cheers, Bob. Saturday, March 29, PM. Hi I presume you are running a third-party firewall on the XP machine? NM said:. Schmutz said:. Already looked when you posted before it is a useful checklist to refer to, but I do have shared files completely resolved now.

There are complaints on using the LLTP service due to excessive network traffic it generates. Everyone I know have the same issues with Vista and XP when it comes to sharing folders, drives and printers. Are you running SP3 on XP, it might clear up some issues but it might start to bug you with prompts when you move files around. Its job is to stop inbound data that was not requested can't be relevant and therefore is untrustworthy. This creates conditions where your LAN systems would be unable to share files and printer, so we need to tell the firewall to ALLOW traffic from known locations on know ports.

I do have shared files completely resolved now. Similar threads J. Sharing files from an external hard drive to multiple computers. JoeVM Jul 25, Networking. Replies 22 Views Jul 30, Kshipper. Note the limitations of Guest authentication carefully, some limitations aren't as obvious as they should be.

Whether you use the Guest account, or a non-Guest account, for authentication, make sure that the account used is properly prepared for network access. There are also 5 well known editions of Windows Vista , plus several obscure ones which we probably won't encounter.

The different editions of Windows Vista are completely different from Windows XP, in feature set differentation. Many NAS devices, with unknown authentication abilities, will be a similar challenge. Some NAS devices will also try to act as a master browser on your network, and will cause master browser conflicts, and unreliable displays in Network aka My Network Places. Get file sharing working, first, then concentrate on getting working printer drivers that support Windows Vista.

And drivers for the client will probably differ from drivers for the server. If you're having problems with printing from a computer running Vista, and the printer is shared by another computer, read Network Printing From A Windows Vista Computer.

And a recent change September in Internet Explorer appears to affect Windows Networking access between computers. Share This Post! You've got a lot of good information here, but some of it appears to be wrong. Specifically, your blog states that "Network Neighborhood" should show the XP machine, but Vista does not even have "Network Neighborhood".

It would be great if you could revise this blog with new lessons learned from the debacle known as Vista. Thanks for the prod, Glenn. So now, it's called "Network view", or just "Network", when it's named at all. Hi, I found the info in this entry very helpful and I just solved my home network name resolution problem I have a laptop running Windows XP with nodetype set to "peer-to-peer" Thank you very much!

I was not aware of all these issues as it concerned Vista integrating with XP. I am happy I came upon your article as it has helped me tremendously to iron out some of the issues I am facing. Keep up the good work and I am looking forward to more of your articles. Hello, I have found very useful information in this post, however I have a bit different problem.

I have connected my Vista laptop and Desktop running XP with a crosscable. The result Vista Network map created normal network map with both computers, but they don't see each other on My network Places.

Any ideas? Xenobius, What you're describing is called a browsing problem, and the immediate cause is generally a master browser conflict.

The base cause of a master browser conflict is usually something like a NetBT setting or a personal firewall problem. I'd start by checking Windows Firewall. Or do you, maybe, have OneCare? That's another known problem. Hello again, I've made some progress since my last post, however, the problem is not completely solved yet. When I open "view workgroup computers" I see the laptop, but when I try to open it I get the message "The network path was not found".

Thanks in advance, Xenobius. Xenobius, OK, it's time for you to post in the Vista Networking forum, either using the Google interface , or the Microsoft interface. Or have you posted already? You can place a value - what does this mean?

The only software change on the laptop was installation of Bitdefender Total Security. I can't say if the problem started then. I plan to continue unable I solve this problem. Nothing seems to work for a solution. When I changed the names of the desktop computer and the laptop - the names were recognized by net search.

There was one thing strange. Until I turned off the bitdefender firewall the laptop did not find the new name. Turning firewall and virus protection off did not solve the problem. Now net search works. Threats include any threat of suicide, violence, or harm to another. Any content of an adult theme or inappropriate to a community web site.

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