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March 21st 07, 07:05 PM
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XP Pro and Vista Business 32 bit
I am having an unusual problem.
I have a desktop running XP pro which is hard wired to the wireless router. I bought a HP laptop running XP pro and it worked fine with the desktop connecting through the wireless router. As I had bought this laptop recently and opted for a vista upgrade HP sent me vista business 32 bit. I followed the instruction given by HP regarding installing vista. Now the problem. After installing vista I installed the HP drivers for vista. I then went on to connect to the wireless router which was a breeze. After i got connected to the router I noticed that I could see and access my desktop shared files on the laptop (I did not and have not yet configured the network). The workgroup name on the desktop is different compared to the default vista "WORKGROUP". My question is how in the world did Vista manage to access the desktop which had a completely different workgroup? Is this something to do with vista or is it something to do with XP pro? Any information on this would be helpful. Thanks 
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March 21st 07, 08:46 PM
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XP Pro and Vista Business 32 bit
MS Vista did manage to do that, however the network setup directions also
say: "If all computers belong to the same workgroup, access will be faster." "TheSeeker" wrote: I am having an unusual problem. I have a desktop running XP pro which is hard wired to the wireless router. I bought a HP laptop running XP pro and it worked fine with the desktop connecting through the wireless router. As I had bought this laptop recently and opted for a vista upgrade HP sent me vista business 32 bit. I followed the instruction given by HP regarding installing vista. Now the problem. After installing vista I installed the HP drivers for vista. I then went on to connect to the wireless router which was a breeze. After i got connected to the router I noticed that I could see and access my desktop shared files on the laptop (I did not and have not yet configured the network). The workgroup name on the desktop is different compared to the default vista "WORKGROUP". My question is how in the world did Vista manage to access the desktop which had a completely different workgroup? Is this something to do with vista or is it something to do with XP pro? Any information on this would be helpful. Thanks
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