I have 4 pc''s on my network. UNfortunately 1 is vista.

I can ping the other 3 pcs in vista but i cannot see/connect to them
them.

How the hell do you search by ip address in vista?. In xp youi simply
right click on network and search. I cannot find anyway to do this in
vista.

thanks

On 19 Mar 2010, Mike wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

I have 4 pc''s on my network. UNfortunately 1 is vista.

Why "unfortunately"? Vista is just about as good or bad at networking
as XP and Windows 7.

I can ping the other 3 pcs in vista but i cannot see/connect to
them them.

Sounds like something is misconfigured.

How the hell do you search by ip address in vista?. In xp youi
simply right click on network and search. I cannot find anyway to
do this in vista.

Not sure what you mean by "search". In a command window, you can type
"net view \\(whatever the IP address is)" and if everything is set up
properly, you will see the shares. You can connect to a share with the
NET USE command using either the IP address or machine name.

Might be a firewall problem.

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:58:05 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 19 Mar 2010, Mike wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

I have 4 pc''s on my network. UNfortunately 1 is vista.

Why "unfortunately"? Vista is just about as good or bad at networking
as XP and Windows 7.

I can ping the other 3 pcs in vista but i cannot see/connect to
them them.

Sounds like something is misconfigured.

How the hell do you search by ip address in vista?. In xp youi
simply right click on network and search. I cannot find anyway to
do this in vista.

Not sure what you mean by "search". In a command window, you can type
"net view \\(whatever the IP address is)" and if everything is set up
properly, you will see the shares. You can connect to a share with the
NET USE command using either the IP address or machine name.

Might be a firewall problem.


Its not a firewall problem.

By search i mean - in xp you can search for computers. example
right click on my network places and chose search computers.

I cannot see a option for search for computers in vista, only search
files etc Any ideas how to search/connect as above i.e. not using a
command window?

Mike;1243617 Wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:58:05 -0400, Nil
rednoise@newsgroup wrote:

On 19 Mar 2010, Mike me@newsgroup wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

I have 4 pc''s on my network. UNfortunately 1 is vista.
Why "unfortunately"? Vista is just about as good or bad at
networking
as XP and Windows 7.


Sounds like something is misconfigured.

How the hell do you search by ip address in vista?. In xp youi
simply right click on network and search. I cannot find anyway to
do this in vista.
Not sure what you mean by "search". In a command window, you can
type
"net view \\(whatever the IP address is)" and if everything is set
up
properly, you will see the shares. You can connect to a share with
the
NET USE command using either the IP address or machine name.

Might be a firewall problem.
Its not a firewall problem.

By search i mean - in xp you can search for computers. example
right click on my network places and chose search computers.

I cannot see a option for search for computers in vista, only search
files etc Any ideas how to search/connect as above i.e. not using a
command window?

I believe you get the same effect if you right click in the network
folder and hit Refresh, or just hit F5. Otherwise you can go into the
network configuration where it shows all the networks running on your
system and what machines are connected in a schematic.

I have Vista and XP on a Lan. The best way I found to get it to work
was to use a workgroup. I used the same workgroup name as I had set up
in XP. Activated file and printer sharing, no firewall, no passwords.
Then I just used the built-in shared folders.

Here's the weird part. Once I got it to work with the system shared
folders, I could share another folder, and that could be seen remotely.
Don't ask me why. So try doing it in 2 stages. Just shared folders
like Shared Documents first. After you have it working, try manually
sharing another folder on either machine.


--
MilesAhead

"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
- Woody Allen

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On 19 Mar 2010, Mike wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

By search i mean - in xp you can search for computers. example
right click on my network places and chose search computers.

I cannot see a option for search for computers in vista, only
search files etc Any ideas how to search/connect as above i.e.
not using a command window?

I just double-click the Network icon, and all the computers on my
network are visible. There are two running XP, one running Windows 7,
and one running Ubuntu Linux.

You can also connect to a known computername\share by typing it's UNC
name in the address bar in a Windows Explorer window.

Thanks to all the replied. I will give it try and see how I like it.

"Nil" wrote in message
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On 19 Mar 2010, Mike wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

By search i mean - in xp you can search for computers. example
right click on my network places and chose search computers.

I cannot see a option for search for computers in vista, only
search files etc Any ideas how to search/connect as above i.e.
not using a command window?

I just double-click the Network icon, and all the computers on my
network are visible. There are two running XP, one running Windows 7,
and one running Ubuntu Linux.

You can also connect to a known computername\share by typing it's UNC
name in the address bar in a Windows Explorer window.

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:05:17 +0000, Mike wrote:

I have 4 pc''s on my network. UNfortunately 1 is vista.

I can ping the other 3 pcs in vista but i cannot see/connect to them
them.

How the hell do you search by ip address in vista?. In xp youi simply
right click on network and search. I cannot find anyway to do this in
vista.

thanksion i will ne knowver


Since no one has the answer i am going to assume its not possible.

Why MS have removed this function i will never know.

"Mike" wrote in message
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:05:17 +0000, Mike wrote:

I have 4 pc''s on my network. UNfortunately 1 is vista.

I can ping the other 3 pcs in vista but i cannot see/connect to them
them.

How the hell do you search by ip address in vista?. In xp youi simply
right click on network and search. I cannot find anyway to do this in
vista.

thanksion i will ne knowver


Since no one has the answer i am going to assume its not possible.

Why MS have removed this function i will never know.

Do you have 'Network Discovery' enabled?

On 21 Mar 2010, Mike wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

Since no one has the answer i am going to assume its not possible.

Why MS have removed this function i will never know.

Someone did have the answer and it is possible and it was discussed.