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re: Networking
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 8:55 am
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Posted by dlaw (1 messages posted)


Finally got mine to work. BTW, I found that opening a command window (on the vista laptop) and pinging an XP workstation on my network a useful troubleshooting tool. (Ping wouldn't find the XP until I fixed problem). This was a new laptop that came with Norton internet preloaded (30 day trial). I removed norton. Networking began working -- ping successful, XP drives show up on vista There is probably some setting in norton that was getting in the way. I'll use msoft security junk until vista matures a bit. I did some other things prior to removing norton which may have been req'd: * made workgroup name identical with XP * downloaded and installed "Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder" on XP (downloadable from microsoft)


On Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 10:09 pm, zs wrote:
>I cant get my laptop with vista to access my other pc with xp for file sharing, internet
>is working ok with router but not able to see my other computer. Ive read everything
>on vista to make it work but no luck. Xp was easy to do i have 4 I wired doing great.
>I also tried straight plug but nothing made sure workgroup name was same made sure
>to turn on net discovery turned off firewall no luck really dont know what else to
>do.


Written in response to:
Networking (zs: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 10:09 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Networking (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 9:44 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Networking (zs: Tue, Feb 13, 2007, 10:09 pm)
-re: Networking (dlaw: Wed, Feb 14, 2007, 8:55 am)
*re: Networking (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wed, Feb 14, 2007, 9:44 am)
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