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August 22nd 07, 10:28 AM
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Network discovery
I'm new to Vista and cannot work around this problem:
We have a normal network containing 6 Windows XP pc's. The switch also allows wireless connections and we have one Windows Vista Business laptop attempting to connect to the other network. The wireless connection functions and I can copy between the network and the laptop. However I have to use the pcs' IP's instead of their names when I search for them, explore them or map their drives. I cannot find them, affect them, using their names. Using a LAN cable to connect the laptop to the network does not seem to make a difference. I need to correct this problem in order to get Pastel to use the mapped drives. Please advise. 
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August 22nd 07, 09:13 PM
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Network discovery
Johan - you mention (post subject) "Network Discovery" - Vista uses Link
Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) to "discover and map" network computers. XP does not hhave LLTD. Check: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120 which provides info on downloading LLTD to have XP appear on network maps in Vista. "Johan Croukamp" Johan wrote in message ... I'm new to Vista and cannot work around this problem: We have a normal network containing 6 Windows XP pc's. The switch also allows wireless connections and we have one Windows Vista Business laptop attempting to connect to the other network. The wireless connection functions and I can copy between the network and the laptop. However I have to use the pcs' IP's instead of their names when I search for them, explore them or map their drives. I cannot find them, affect them, using their names. Using a LAN cable to connect the laptop to the network does not seem to make a difference. I need to correct this problem in order to get Pastel to use the mapped drives. Please advise.
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August 23rd 07, 05:46 AM
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Network discovery
Have you tried the following:
In Vista Networking and Sharing: 1 Network Discovery ON 2 File Sharing ON 3 Public Folder Sharing ON 4 Password Protected OFF 5 and the Network should be set to “Private” And have you made sure that the workgroup names are the same on XP and Vista. By default XP is MSHOME and Vista is WORKGROUP; they should be the same. Also "Shared Docs" in XP is called "Public Folder" in Vista "Johan Croukamp" wrote: I'm new to Vista and cannot work around this problem: We have a normal network containing 6 Windows XP pc's. The switch also allows wireless connections and we have one Windows Vista Business laptop attempting to connect to the other network. The wireless connection functions and I can copy between the network and the laptop. However I have to use the pcs' IP's instead of their names when I search for them, explore them or map their drives. I cannot find them, affect them, using their names. Using a LAN cable to connect the laptop to the network does not seem to make a difference. I need to correct this problem in order to get Pastel to use the mapped drives. Please advise.
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