Vista laptop wireless can ping other computers but not see them in Network window

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Hello all you MVPs,
Let me add another plea for help to the mountain of mail about Vista networking
problems.
In my case a Vista laptop (Dell Inspiron 1521, AMD Turion 64, Vista Home Basic)
can ping other computers in wireless mode (even one running Win98) but not see
them in Network window. I waited the requisite 15 minute (more like an hour
actually) because I had heard the appearance my be that slow, but still, nada.
This is a peer-to-peer system using a D-Link DI-624 purchased at least two years
ago, maybe three or four. It is 802.11g and the D-Link version is 2.28 if that
helps. But this should not matter since I ran the Internet connectivity
Evaluation Tool found on
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/using/tools/igd/default.mspx and it reports to
me "Congratulations! Your router supports new advanced..." etc.
I have also carefully followed all the directions found in in
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/bb727037.aspx including all the
Firewall UDP and TCP port allowances.
So what I am asking is this: How can I address this problem? I have read may
posts concerning it and followed the directions in each if they seemed relevant.
Most of them deal with client-server systems and so do not pertain to me and my
peer-to-peer setup. Is there a definitive step by step procedure, however long,
to go through and in so doing root out the problem, whatever it may be?
Thank You,
-plh
 
Hello Bob Lin,
I have no heard of that one before, is it a command I put in the cmd window like
this?
net view (two words)
or
netview (one word)
so then I would type in
netview\\192.168.0.102
or some such ip address?
Thank You,
-plh
 
Hello Bob Lin,
I don't get any system errors when I do that. When I run it on the Vista machine
it successfully reports back the computer description (from My Computer>System
Properties>Computer Name>Computer description) and a list of the shared folders
that exist thereon. This is true of any computer that is turned on, both XP and
Win98.
Thank You,
-plh
 
Hello Bob Lin,
I don't get any system errors when I do that. When I run it on the Vista machine
it successfully reports back the computer description (from My Computer>System
Properties>Computer Name>Computer description) and a list of the shared folders
that exist thereon. This is true of any computer that is turned on, both XP and
Win98.
Thank You,
-plh
 
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