Hi all,

I'm a newbie in networking, but had been able to hook up my 2 XP PCs at home
about 5 years ago and been happy ever since. I just purchased a new Vista PC.
I removed one of the old XP PCs from the network and hooked up the new Vista
PC in its place. The network stopped working. I can ping the other XP PC from
the Vista one, but not vice versa.

I have renamed the Workgroup to "home" on the Vista PC to match the old
network name, and Internet and email are working fine. I have activated file
sharing too.

Any suggestions?

On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:56:01 -0700, supersub15
wrote:

Hi all,

I'm a newbie in networking, but had been able to hook up my 2 XP PCs at home
about 5 years ago and been happy ever since. I just purchased a new Vista PC.
I removed one of the old XP PCs from the network and hooked up the new Vista
PC in its place. The network stopped working. I can ping the other XP PC from
the Vista one, but not vice versa.

I have renamed the Workgroup to "home" on the Vista PC to match the old
network name, and Internet and email are working fine. I have activated file
sharing too.

Any suggestions?

Please explain "cannot ping". Do you get "unknown host", or packets dropped?
Both are probably a firewall problem, but a NetBT setting problem is a
possibility. NetBT has to be consistent.
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/0...ing-using.html

If no help yet, post logs from "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all", from each
computer, so we can diagnose the problem. Read this article, and linked
articles, and follow instructions precisely (download browstat!):
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...#AskingForHelp

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.

What firewall is on the Vista computer?

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"supersub15" wrote in message
...
Hi all,

I'm a newbie in networking, but had been able to hook up my 2 XP PCs at
home
about 5 years ago and been happy ever since. I just purchased a new Vista
PC.
I removed one of the old XP PCs from the network and hooked up the new
Vista
PC in its place. The network stopped working. I can ping the other XP PC
from
the Vista one, but not vice versa.

I have renamed the Workgroup to "home" on the Vista PC to match the old
network name, and Internet and email are working fine. I have activated
file
sharing too.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for the answers. I have followed somebody else's advice in another
thread and installed Network Magic. It is really magic. I suggested to all
who are having networking issues. Mine are resolved.


"Kerry Brown" wrote:

What firewall is on the Vista computer?

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"supersub15" wrote in message
...
Hi all,

I'm a newbie in networking, but had been able to hook up my 2 XP PCs at
home
about 5 years ago and been happy ever since. I just purchased a new Vista
PC.
I removed one of the old XP PCs from the network and hooked up the new
Vista
PC in its place. The network stopped working. I can ping the other XP PC
from
the Vista one, but not vice versa.

I have renamed the Workgroup to "home" on the Vista PC to match the old
network name, and Internet and email are working fine. I have activated
file
sharing too.

Any suggestions?