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XP vs. Vista



 
 
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Old April 20th 10, 03:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing
Bill H.
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Default XP vs. Vista

Have a small network consisting of one Win XP Media Center Ed. and one Vista
home premium (and an Internet router). The Vista crashed and was restored
to factory and apps reinstalled, etc. Each computer has dedicated IP
address, and each runs a version of Norton Internet Security. They are in
the same workgroup.

Prior to the Vista problem, all was generall well. Now, the XP seems to
lose network connectivity to the Vista computer when the computers are
turned on in the morning. This is important for many reasons, including
that the XP uses a printer attached to the Vista for most of the XP's
printing needs.

I have set up a user on Vista that matches the user on XP, and have set the
NIS on Vista to allow all connections to the IP of the XP box. And all is
well until that reboot. There may be more to that, but in the few days the
rebuilt Vista has been up, that has been the story.

I have been able to restore the connection by launching Network Places, and
searching for the name of the Vista computer. It so far does not show up in
the network view until I do a manual search using the computer name. Then
when it comes up and I double-click on the Vista C: drive, I'm prompted for
login info, which I give and then I get connected (why is this not
automatically done for me?). I've also mapped a drive to the Vista and set
that for "reconnect at login."

Ideas/fixes?

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Bill



 




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