re: Networking
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 8:55 am
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.
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