I have a Vista Laptop that needs to access a printer on an XP computer
in my sister's law office. I'm having trouble trying to even have the
XP computer show up consistently on my sister's computer. I can ping
it every time from the command prompt. I have all firewalls unenabled
on both computers. Identical user accounts on both systems. File and
Print sharing set up on both. The Link Layer topology is present on
the Vista computer. When the laptop sits for a while the XP computer
will show up on the map; but, Vista comes up with an error message
when I try to access the XP computer. Beyond that, the map will lose
the XP computer on occassion. The Vista computer can access the
internet well enough through the router. At this point I can't
install the printer on the Vista computer for not being able to access
the XP computer from Vista. I've networked Vista computers before on
XP networks, and this is the first time I've encountered this problem.

Additional info; net view will not show xp computer. Workgroup name
is the same for both XP and Vista computer. The restrict anonymous
registry key on the XP computer is set at 1. Was originally set at 0.
(Norton's Systemwork altered setting)

Any ideas? TIA

Each computer has only one active 3rd party firewall with trusted
zones set for local network of the form 192.168.xxx.xxx. I have toyed
with the browser settings on each computer and I still have the same
issue. I can access the XP computer from the Vista laptop in the
browser using the XP's ip address \\192.168.123.xxx. I can view the
XP's shared resources in this manner, and I can print a test page to
the XP's printer via the properties dialogue box. I need some means
of adding this printer to the Vista printer panel, and I'm still
unable to do that. Vista networking refuses to accept the path to the
XP computer (which would allow me to add the printer).

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