Vista Laptop can not see XP desktop

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I want to print to my XP desktop which shares an HP printer but my Laptop
Vista doesn't see the desktop. I already ran the network wizard in both of
them and they are in the same workgroup, also I turned firewall off on both
just in case.
Any idea what else shoul I do
Thanks ...
 
Any idea what else shoul I do
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I found that XP defaults to the workgroup name 'MSHOME' whilst Vista
defaults to 'WORKGROUP'. The names have to be the same.

Cheers,

Guy

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Thank you DR teeth for that but I have them both in the same work group
(MSHOME) I changed Vista Laptop to mshome and it didn't work
 
Thank you Cari File and Printer Sharing is enabled on BOTH PCs
that was my first step and XP desktop sees Vista Laptop but not on the other
way around Vista Laptop doesn't see XP desktop.
Thanks
 
You need to install the LLTD Responder on all your XP machines in order for
them to be seen by your Vista machine. Just Google on LLTD Responder and it
will take you to the Microsoft site to download it. Also, make sure your
firewall on your Vista machine is open to the following local ports for
network device status: UDP 3702, TCP 5357, TCP 5358, UDP 137, UDP 138, TCP
139, TCP 445, UDP 1900, and TCP 2869.
 
Make sure you run the network setup wizard on the XP machines.

Here's some information regarding the XP machines not in network map.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120

Network Map in Windows Vista does not display computers that are running
Windows XP



Vista network configuration

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx

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So disregard because you figured something out; the information you received
helped; or the original information was not correct?

Other people will read this, if this was the solution say thanks, if there
was some other configuration change please help others and post how you got
things working.



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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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