I'm about to SCREAM!!

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Okay, I bought new pc with vista 2 weeks ago. I have Vista as main pc, hooked
up to a router, my old pc (winXP) is also hooked and both are running
internet fine. I shared the drives in the old computer but can NOT
find/setup/see them. I have shut down the Norton firewall and still don't
know how to see them. So, I've taken harddrive out of old pc and put it in
the new pc... Windows Vista will not boot up.. grrrr. My last big concern is
getting my Lexmark X1240 running.. and it won't work. There are so many small
things that I can't get to yet because these 3 things are the most important
to me right now.. I HAVE to get to my old hard drive.. has all my work info
on it.. and i HAVE to get printer to work, because printing my documents is
how I make a living... I've been backed up for 2 weeks and I'm really hoping
that someone can help me. Thanks for reading.
 
Both PCs must be in the same Workgroup.

The old hard drive is probably set to Master instead of Slave, so with two
Masters on the same channel, Vista will not boot. If you want the old hard
drive to stay in the new PC and work, you will have to reset the jumper to
be a slave.... the website of the hard drive manufacturer will have
information on this.

The Vista driver for the X1240 is at the Lexmark website...
http://www.lexmark.com/lexmark/sequentialem/home/0,6959,204816596_924205346_920387567_en,00.html

Don't forget to uninstall the printer before reinstalling it.
 
Make sure you have a user account that uses the SAME NAME and SAME PASSWORD
on both machines. Make sure you are at least sharing one folder on BOTH
machines.

Make sure both machines are in the SAME WORKGROUP and are on the SAME
NETWORK.

If all this is done then YOU WILL SEE ALL OF YOUR SHARES AND PRINTERS.

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I just went through all of this - 2 days worth of pure frustration.

Also check :

Vista Machine :
Network Discovery must be on
File sharing must be on (all PC's)
Make your network PRIVATE

I also :
Installed LLDP on XP machines so Vista machine could map them
Loaded TCP IPv6 on th XP machines (may not have helped)
Did heaps of other stuff that I can't remember

My problem in the end.... Subnet Mask was wrong (do ipconfig on all machines)

Check you can ping the other machines - do a Net View & see if you can see
them - I also did a ipconfig / flushdns (also may not have helped)

Good luck !
 
Make sure you have a user account that uses the SAME NAME and SAME PASSWORD
on both machines. Make sure you are at least sharing one folder on BOTH
machines.

Make sure both machines are in the SAME WORKGROUP and are on the SAME
NETWORK.

If all this is done then YOU WILL SEE ALL OF YOUR SHARES AND PRINTERS.
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True, if:
- you have File & Print Sharing enabled
- you allow File & Print Sharing through the firewall(s)
- there are no IP factors that break addressibility
- there are no cable/WEP/WPA issues that break access


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Saws are too hard to use.
Be easier to use!
 
Thank you all for the help. ALL three of my issues were resolved because of
the info you all provided. MUCH appreciation!!
 
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