Dual boot & Networking

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I presently have a wireless home network with 1 desktop and 2 notebooks, and
everything works fine. XP Pro is on the desktop and XP home on the
notebooks. I installed Vista as a dual boot with XP Pro on the desktop and
I would like to set up a home network so if either XP Pro or Vista is
running the notebooks can access the printer and files. I guess I will have
to redo setting up the home network from scratch, but it's been so log since
I did my network setup it's a little foggy and with Vista in the picture I'm
not sure how or what I need to do. Can anyone give me some info on what I
need to do in some kind of order to get this to work. I'm a little confused
at what needs to be done.
 
After reading a little more I did get to work.

I changed the Vista workgroup name to MSHOME which is the same name the
other PC's have. After a reboot I could see the other PC"s. I then
installed the "Link Layer Topology Discovery" to notebooks so they could see
Vista. So everything works fine now.
 
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