Vista can't discover other machines xp and vice-versa

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I have a lan with 3 xp computers shared and working correctly from always.
Now I installed another new computer with Vista Bussiness atached to that
lan. Problem is that Vista do not discover other computers on the lan and
that others do not see also the vista. But Vista can connect to Internet
without problems. I executed a ping from the command to another computer and
no problem.

I do not use user accounts for any.
Folder Sharing is activated
c: disk shared is activated
Name group is the same of other computers
IP family and masks are identical
(I tried temporaly to disconnect the firewell to test but no results)

What I am missing?

Thank you in advance.
 
I have a lan with 3 xp computers shared and working correctly from always.
Now I installed another new computer with Vista Bussiness atached to that
lan. Problem is that Vista do not discover other computers on the lan and
that others do not see also the vista. But Vista can connect to Internet
without problems. I executed a ping from the command to another computer and
no problem.

I do not use user accounts for any.
Folder Sharing is activated
c: disk shared is activated
Name group is the same of other computers
IP family and masks are identical
(I tried temporaly to disconnect the firewell to test but no results)

What I am missing?

Thank you in advance.
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You are not alone. I am experiencing the exact same problem. I can
ping the server with the ip address but not the server name though. I
have also disconnected the firewall to see if that worked and it did
not. I tried a wired connection to the router as well as wireless.
 
Thank you. I downloaded the file and executed into the XP. Also I checked
the workgroup name, all the same, amd read all other notes (and tested) from
the second link, but ... it continues do not discovering the computer one
to others. Regards.
 
Try turning off your firewall(s) (if you reactivated it/them, all networked
computers) and reboot vista machine. Open your network link again. Should
now be able to see other machines. Your router should protect you from
intrusions.

Woody
 
Also, make sure "Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver" and
"Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder" are enabled in your network
adapter properties, Network Discovery is on and File Sharing is on in the
Network and Sharing Center.

Woody
 
woody said:
Also, make sure "Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver" and
"Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder" are enabled in your network
adapter properties, Network Discovery is on and File Sharing is on in the
Network and Sharing Center.
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The only thing installed on XP when I ran that kb was the discovery driver.
No responder was installed by it on the xp nodes. Vista does however have
both. no firewalls active on any node. Obviously so many people with the
same issue can't be mere coincidence. lol
 
I discovered something, from vista I can access to other computers if a type
the address: 192.168.1.11, but not for names \\name computer. Also from XP
can do the same exactly but no with names.

Any idea?

Thank you

Manuel
 
go into properties for local area connection>tcpip4
properties>advanced>wins>check enable netbios........do the same for
tcpip6
 
Actually I have expierenced this same issue with networking XP to XP multiple
times in the past. Have even seen it networking XP to 98. One solution I
have found to work 100% of the time is manually specifying a WINS address. I
do not know how to do this in vista (I have not even ran the OS yet) but in
XP, if you go into the properties of your local area network, then the
properties for your tcp/ip communication, then the advanced properties
(bottom left button) you will see the WINS tab at the top. If you are
running a standard 192.168.1.xxx ip with a 255.255.255.0 subnet, use
192.168.1.255 for the WINS and reboot the machine. Do it for every computer
on your network and they should communicate all of the time. You "can" fix
this by editing your hosts file instead, but if you are obtaining IP
automatically and reboot the machine or router, your computer can obtain a
different IP address and you will have to re-edit the hosts file on every
machine to get it to recognize. I found that the problem actually is that XP
has a problem resolving computer names by IP addresses. I have yet to figure
out the cause, but the solution works so I never investigated further.
 
I haved tested your experience in Vista (procedure is the same) but with no
results. I continue without resolving names from vista to xp and from xp to
vista, but work correctly xp to xp. Regards.
 
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