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Hi. I bought a new Dell Vista laptop a few weeks ago and ever since have
been trying to get it to connect to my home network. I have an XP desktop
and iMac on the network and the Vista machine is seeing neither, but it can
hit the internet. The laptop *did* see the desktop exactly *once* 2 weeks
ago for a few hours until I shut it down. I never would have shut it down
had I realized it wasn't a permanent connection.
Here's what I've tried so far:
*made sure all computers belong to the same workgroup
*installed LLTD Responder on XP desktop
*rebooted wireless Netgear network router
*set Network Discovery to "On" on the Vista laptop
*turned on netBIOS over TCP/IP on the XP desktop
*rebooted both computers after doing all of the above
*disabled Norton firewall on Dell laptop
*studied
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx#EQBAE
extensively, especially the file sharing portion
I'm stuck and out of ideas. I can't print and I'm stuck pulling files off
my old desktop gigabyte by gigabyte via a portable hard drive instead of over
my handy dandy network. So much for pulling my fun new laptop out of the box
and getting right to work :/.
Thanks,
Heather
been trying to get it to connect to my home network. I have an XP desktop
and iMac on the network and the Vista machine is seeing neither, but it can
hit the internet. The laptop *did* see the desktop exactly *once* 2 weeks
ago for a few hours until I shut it down. I never would have shut it down
had I realized it wasn't a permanent connection.
Here's what I've tried so far:
*made sure all computers belong to the same workgroup
*installed LLTD Responder on XP desktop
*rebooted wireless Netgear network router
*set Network Discovery to "On" on the Vista laptop
*turned on netBIOS over TCP/IP on the XP desktop
*rebooted both computers after doing all of the above
*disabled Norton firewall on Dell laptop
*studied
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx#EQBAE
extensively, especially the file sharing portion
I'm stuck and out of ideas. I can't print and I'm stuck pulling files off
my old desktop gigabyte by gigabyte via a portable hard drive instead of over
my handy dandy network. So much for pulling my fun new laptop out of the box
and getting right to work :/.
Thanks,
Heather