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Hi all,
I had Xp Pro and could file and printer share just fine after adding the ports to the firewall to allow it. Since going to Vista on this machine which has a HP printer connected to it via USB, I can see the other machines from this one and enter the shares and play around with the files. Those other machines have XP Home on them or Pro. However, no XP machine can see the Vista shares though the Vista machine itself is acknowledged on the network via its name. It just cannot be accessed at all and neither can printing. I have shared all the devices, printers, network and so on all to no avail. I have scoured Google and found the tips relate to RC1 of Vista and don't seem to apply to my Vista which is Business Upgrade edition. I have no domain and am not connected to one, have static IP addresses, can see the vista machine from the XP machines but cant access anything on the Vista machine from them. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks. |
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Maybe you find the answers in he
Vista http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx for other PC's http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net..._fp.mspx#EZOAC Ko "Diamontina Cocktail" schreef in bericht ... Hi all, I had Xp Pro and could file and printer share just fine after adding the ports to the firewall to allow it. Since going to Vista on this machine which has a HP printer connected to it via USB, I can see the other machines from this one and enter the shares and play around with the files. Those other machines have XP Home on them or Pro. However, no XP machine can see the Vista shares though the Vista machine itself is acknowledged on the network via its name. It just cannot be accessed at all and neither can printing. I have shared all the devices, printers, network and so on all to no avail. I have scoured Google and found the tips relate to RC1 of Vista and don't seem to apply to my Vista which is Business Upgrade edition. I have no domain and am not connected to one, have static IP addresses, can see the vista machine from the XP machines but cant access anything on the Vista machine from them. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks. |
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I have the exact same problem, and after spending an hour on the phone with
Gateway, I was informed that they don't deal with networking problems. Does anyone have a solution to this?? I can access XP's computers, they can't access my Vista....help!! Thanks, Mandy "Diamontina Cocktail" wrote: Hi all, I had Xp Pro and could file and printer share just fine after adding the ports to the firewall to allow it. Since going to Vista on this machine which has a HP printer connected to it via USB, I can see the other machines from this one and enter the shares and play around with the files. Those other machines have XP Home on them or Pro. However, no XP machine can see the Vista shares though the Vista machine itself is acknowledged on the network via its name. It just cannot be accessed at all and neither can printing. I have shared all the devices, printers, network and so on all to no avail. I have scoured Google and found the tips relate to RC1 of Vista and don't seem to apply to my Vista which is Business Upgrade edition. I have no domain and am not connected to one, have static IP addresses, can see the vista machine from the XP machines but cant access anything on the Vista machine from them. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks. |
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Thanks for all that but no that didn't help and none of the links I have
followed helped any. I did solve it, though. I had Zone Alarm Pro installed, had let it lapse while still on XP and decided to stop it starting with Windows and promptly forgot about it. Then, when Vista came out, I upgraded to that. Vista would see and work with any XP machine but the XP machines would only see and not work with the Vista machine. I eventually remembered I had ZA Pro installed and attempted to uninstall it - something that is really hard because it doesn't work right. You have to start the uninstall and keep an eye on the vsmon processes that start, kill slowly and in the correct order and when you do, the uninstall then works fine and gets rid of ZA Pro from your machine. Once that happens, the networking then works the way you want it to work. The upshot is that if you have ZA Pro installed even though it isn't started with Windows it *IS* stopping normal networking. "koze" wrote in message ... Maybe you find the answers in he Vista http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx for other PC's http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net..._fp.mspx#EZOAC Ko "Diamontina Cocktail" schreef in bericht ... Hi all, I had Xp Pro and could file and printer share just fine after adding the ports to the firewall to allow it. Since going to Vista on this machine which has a HP printer connected to it via USB, I can see the other machines from this one and enter the shares and play around with the files. Those other machines have XP Home on them or Pro. However, no XP machine can see the Vista shares though the Vista machine itself is acknowledged on the network via its name. It just cannot be accessed at all and neither can printing. I have shared all the devices, printers, network and so on all to no avail. I have scoured Google and found the tips relate to RC1 of Vista and don't seem to apply to my Vista which is Business Upgrade edition. I have no domain and am not connected to one, have static IP addresses, can see the vista machine from the XP machines but cant access anything on the Vista machine from them. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks. |