I am trying to network my Vista Ult PC with an XP Pro PC and am working
through the usual problems and recommended settings and solutions.

However, I cannot turn "On" Network Discovery in the Network and Sharing
Center. Instead, it shifts to "Custom".

What does this mean and how do I get it "On"?

David

David Salmon;648312 Wrote:
I am trying to network my Vista Ult PC with an XP Pro PC and am working
through the usual problems and recommended settings and solutions.

However, I cannot turn "On" Network Discovery in the Network and
Sharing
Center. Instead, it shifts to "Custom".

What does this mean and how do I get it "On"?

David
David,
I would recommend you check out the templates in the group edit portion
of both Vista and XP Pro. To open that control, Start/Run/type
"Gpedit.msc" (minus the quote markers) in the box and click "OK".
Gene


--
ncgenek

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx

Have a read of the above link re Vista File and Printer Sharing.

Permissions/Share info is there as well.

If using Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro I.S., make sure file and printer
sharing is enabled in THEIR firewall.

1st thing to do is make sure that the Workgroup Name of ALL the computers is
the SAME.

In Vista Network and Sharing:

Network Discovery: ON (So it can see the other computers)

Network set to Private (Public is for hotspots, airports, etc)

File Sharing: ON

Public Folder Sharing: ON (Vista’s Public Folder is the same as XP’s Shared
Docs)

Password Protected: OFF (unless you want to set up identical usernames and
passwords on ALL computers in your Network) If you have it ON, you will be
asked for a username and password when you try to access a Vista computer
from an XP computer.

Also, run the XP’s Home Network File and Printer Sharing Wizard to include
Vista in your “New� Network, even if you had an XP Network set up prior to
adding a Vista computer to it.

--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"David Salmon" wrote:

I am trying to network my Vista Ult PC with an XP Pro PC and am working
through the usual problems and recommended settings and solutions.

However, I cannot turn "On" Network Discovery in the Network and Sharing
Center. Instead, it shifts to "Custom".

What does this mean and how do I get it "On"?

David

"David Salmon" wrote in message
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I am trying to network my Vista Ult PC with an XP Pro PC and am working
through the usual problems and recommended settings and solutions.

However, I cannot turn "On" Network Discovery in the Network and
Sharing
Center. Instead, it shifts to "Custom".

What does this mean and how do I get it "On"?

David

My Network Discovery is also 'Custom' and everything works fine.

All shares and file copies are OK in all directions to/from an XP
machine and a NAS, 'Network' shows those devices and a router
immediately and they all have a solid Internet connection through the
router. A full network map is shown when required (though that is
largely cosmetic) apart from the NAS which can't be placed on the
diagram. I have One Care which has its own firewall.

Having said all that I don't really know which setting makes it
'custom', it may be the NAS, but for me it seems not to matter. My
point is that if everything works it is *of itself* not a problem.

Tom

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:30:00 -0700, David Salmon wrote:

However, I cannot turn "On" Network Discovery in the Network and
Sharing Center. Instead, it shifts to "Custom".

That is not a barrier to discovery working, all it means is that the
Windows defaults are not all in place, for instance a couple of
services aren't running on my machine so the setting is 'Custom'
rather than 'On'. Discovery doesn't seem affected.

--
Chris Game

"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
-- Mark Twain

Looks like some system services are disabled or not started.
Click Start and type Services.msc in the dialog box to open the
services snap-in.
Then check if the following services are started:
--SSDP Discovery
--TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
--Computer Browser
--Server
If not, set the startup type to automatic and click start to start the
services.
I also has a vista ultimate pc and was not able to turn network
discovery on. I checked in the services snap-in and found that the SSDP
Discovery was not started. With the SSDP Discovery services started, I
was able to turn the network discovery on.
You should try this.

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