Help me with Vista and XP

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Alex Whatley

I recently reloaded my Vista Laptop and now cannot connect to my XP shared
Drives, Worked fine with vista the first time around,
Any ideas
 
Hey, For some reason i turned on the xp machine and it all worked fine.
still boggles the mind.

but now i can either be connected to my home network(wireless) or Dial-up
internet but not both
 
I recently reloaded my Vista Laptop and now cannot connect to my XP shared
Drives, Worked fine with vista the first time around,
Any ideas
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Alex,

The two key settings which cause the most problems:
* Set the Network Location Type to "Private". This implies that your
computers are secure, behind a perimeter firewall or a NAT router, and opens the
personal firewall for file sharing.
* Put all computers in the same workgroup.

Also:
* Make sure that NetBT is Enabled consistently.
* Make sure that all personal firewalls are properly setup.
* Make sure that name resolution is consistently setup.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html

If that doesn't help, describe more completely "cannot connect".
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/background-information-useful-in.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/background-information-useful-in.html
 
Hey, For some reason i turned on the xp machine and it all worked fine.
still boggles the mind.

but now i can either be connected to my home network(wireless) or Dial-up
internet but not both
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Alex,

To start, you need to understand that we are techies, and decently good at
diagnosing networking problems. We are piss poor at mind reading.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/getting-help-on-usenet-and-believing.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/getting-help-on-usenet-and-believing.html
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/background-information-useful-in.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/background-information-useful-in.html

Start with those articles, and try again to tell us about your problem. We will
do our best, but you have to work with us.
 
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