Network between XP & Vista

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Hi all. Your postings have really helped me get to a certain point, but I'm
still having trouble. I am a bit of a novice at this. I have a home network
with 2 XP machines, a linksys print server and a wireless DSL modem/router.
I have been using the XP machines in network mode for some time now, sharing
files. I have just bought a HP laptop running Vista which is connected
wirelessly to the router, the other two machines are wired. I have done
eveything according to what you have written, including the LLTD doownload,
but I'm still having difficulties. I have been able to see the shared files
on one of the XP computers using start>start search>\\computername, but not
the other. I can successfully ping all the devices on the network from the
Vista machine but I can't ping the vista machine from any of the XP machines.
I can access the internet from all the machines. Also, in the network and
sharing centre on the vista machine the location keeps changing from
<networkname> private network to <identifying...> public network and back
again!!!??? I'm really quite confused by this. any help appreciated.
 
Hello
I am using windows vista home and also getting some useful informs and
functions to be executed in windows Xp which i cannot run .So i need help as
how to run the XP programme in windows vista home ,i am using.Plsuggest the
solution at the eraliest.
regards
praveeng
 
I am checking to see if you have had any luck with your connection issues. I
am having nearly the exact issue, and would love to know your fix.

Gary
 
Hi All,

I am using Vista and i am not able to see my network computers running on
XP. I ran a hotfix on XP and i could locate Vista based computers on XP..

But Vista based computers could not locate the XP computers...

Hoe to troubleshoot this problem...

Please help me with the solution..

Preferably email on (e-mail address removed)

Thanks a lot..
 
Kapil said:
Hi All,

I am using Vista and i am not able to see my network computers running on
XP. I ran a hotfix on XP and i could locate Vista based computers on XP..

But Vista based computers could not locate the XP computers...

Hoe to troubleshoot this problem...

Please help me with the solution..

Preferably email on (e-mail address removed)
Click to expand...

Sorry, no free email support. And now that you've posted your unmunged email
on Usenet, expect a lot more spam.

For next time: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email
address

For the networking:

Excellent, thorough, yet easy to understand article about File/Printer
Sharing in Vista. Includes details about sharing printers as well as files
and folders:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx

For XP, start by running the Network Setup Wizard on all machines (see
caveat in Item A below).

Problems sharing files between computers on a network are generally caused
by 1) a misconfigured firewall or overlooked firewall (including a stateful
firewall in a VPN); or 2) inadvertently running two firewalls such as the
built-in Windows Firewall and a third-party firewall; and/or 3) not having
identical user accounts and passwords on all Workgroup machines; 4) trying
to create shares where the operating system does not permit it.

A. Configure firewalls on all machines to allow the Local Area Network (LAN)
traffic as trusted. With Windows Firewall, this means allowing File/Printer
Sharing on the Exceptions tab. Normally running the Network Setup Wizard on
XP will take care of this for those machines.The only "gotcha" is that this
will turn on the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a
third-party firewall or have an antivirus/security program with its own
firewall component, then you're fine. With third-party firewalls, I
usually configure the LAN allowance with an IP range. Ex. would be
192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would substitute your correct
subnet. Refer to any third party security program's Help or user forums for
how to properly configure its firewall. Do not run more than one firewall.
DO NOT TURN OFF FIREWALLS; CONFIGURE THEM CORRECTLY.

B. For ease of organization, put all computers in the same Workgroup. This
is done from the System applet in Control Panel, Computer Name tab.

C. Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not
need to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords
assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just
need to exist and match on all machines. DO NOT NEGLECT TO CREATE
PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY SIMPLE ONES. If you wish a machine to boot directly
to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you
can do this:

XP - Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

Vista - Start Orb>Search box>type: netplwiz [enter]
Click on Continue (or supply an administrator's password) when prompted by
UAC

Uncheck the option "Users must enter a user name and password to use this
computer". Select a user account to automatically log on by clicking on the
desired account to highlight it and then hit OK. Enter the correct password
for that user account (if there is one) when prompted. Leave it blank if
there is no password (null).

D. If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center, turn off
Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab).

E. Create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users' home
directories or Program Files, but you can share folders inside those
directories. A better choice is to simply use the Shared Documents folder.
See the first link above for details about Vista sharing.

Malke
 
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