Yesterday...Set up a workgroup of XP and Vista PCs
Shared relevant disk drives and printers via a router
All working fine

Today ... workgroup there, but no XP machine.

I read (I think) the XP machine needs to be turned on first, then the Vista
machine, and all will be well again....IS THAT RIGHT?

Rgds

...IS THAT RIGHT?...

Rod - Turning on XP first then Vista was my solution until I found that in
McAfee you can allow the ip range of addresses for the local network. Once I
did that, the sequence doesn't matter. Think Norton is the same deal.
Here's the McAfee path:

Right click on McAfee icon in system tray, open security center, internet &
network, configure, firewall protection, advanced, trusted & banned IPs, add
your home network range or click it on if it is there (it should be there,
mine was but it was not clicked on) or add each ip range/address you want to
allow.

T.

"Rod Davies" wrote:

Yesterday...Set up a workgroup of XP and Vista PCs
Shared relevant disk drives and printers via a router
All working fine

Today ... workgroup there, but no XP machine.

I read (I think) the XP machine needs to be turned on first, then the Vista
machine, and all will be well again....IS THAT RIGHT?

Rgds

Do a simple test, can you XP by IP if the firewall is off?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Rod Davies" wrote in message ...
Yesterday...Set up a workgroup of XP and Vista PCs
Shared relevant disk drives and printers via a router
All working fine

Today ... workgroup there, but no XP machine.

I read (I think) the XP machine needs to be turned on first, then the Vista
machine, and all will be well again....IS THAT RIGHT?

Rgds

In article , "Rod
Davies" wrote:
Yesterday...Set up a workgroup of XP and Vista PCs
Shared relevant disk drives and printers via a router
All working fine

Today ... workgroup there, but no XP machine.

I read (I think) the XP machine needs to be turned on first, then the Vista
machine, and all will be well again....IS THAT RIGHT?

Rgds

What do you mean by "no XP machine"? How are you looking for the XP
machine, and what exactly happens when you do it?

The order in which you turn on machines shouldn't make any difference.

Try this on the Vista machine: click the Start button, type the name
of the XP machine in the Start Search box in this format, and press
enter:

\\name

That should open a Window showing XP's shared folders.
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