Network Discovery: Custom?

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David Salmon

I am trying to network my Vista Ult PC with an XP Pro PC and am working
through the usual problems and recommended settings and solutions.

However, I cannot turn "On" Network Discovery in the Network and Sharing
Center. Instead, it shifts to "Custom".

What does this mean and how do I get it "On"?

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

Have a read of the above link re Vista File and Printer Sharing.

Permissions/Share info is there as well.

If using Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro I.S., make sure file and printer
sharing is enabled in THEIR firewall.

1st thing to do is make sure that the Workgroup Name of ALL the computers is
the SAME.

In Vista Network and Sharing:

Network Discovery: ON (So it can see the other computers)

Network set to Private (Public is for hotspots, airports, etc)

File Sharing: ON

Public Folder Sharing: ON (Vista’s Public Folder is the same as XP’s Shared
Docs)

Password Protected: OFF (unless you want to set up identical usernames and
passwords on ALL computers in your Network) If you have it ON, you will be
asked for a username and password when you try to access a Vista computer
from an XP computer.

Also, run the XP’s Home Network File and Printer Sharing Wizard to include
Vista in your “New†Network, even if you had an XP Network set up prior to
adding a Vista computer to it.
 
David Salmon said:
I am trying to network my Vista Ult PC with an XP Pro PC and am working
through the usual problems and recommended settings and solutions.

However, I cannot turn "On" Network Discovery in the Network and
Sharing
Center. Instead, it shifts to "Custom".

What does this mean and how do I get it "On"?

David
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My Network Discovery is also 'Custom' and everything works fine.

All shares and file copies are OK in all directions to/from an XP
machine and a NAS, 'Network' shows those devices and a router
immediately and they all have a solid Internet connection through the
router. A full network map is shown when required (though that is
largely cosmetic) apart from the NAS which can't be placed on the
diagram. I have One Care which has its own firewall.

Having said all that I don't really know which setting makes it
'custom', it may be the NAS, but for me it seems not to matter. My
point is that if everything works it is *of itself* not a problem.

Tom
 
However, I cannot turn "On" Network Discovery in the Network and
Sharing Center. Instead, it shifts to "Custom".
Click to expand...

That is not a barrier to discovery working, all it means is that the
Windows defaults are not all in place, for instance a couple of
services aren't running on my machine so the setting is 'Custom'
rather than 'On'. Discovery doesn't seem affected.
 
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