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September 17th 07, 05:24 PM
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Sharing folders b/w vista and XP
I'm trying to share a folder on my new vista business laptop with my old
computers running XP Pro. I've followed all the steps found on Microsoft's Technet article "File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista"(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...bb727037.aspx). When I try to map the folder on my XP machines I get "The network path \\computer\share cannot be found". I have no third-party firewall on any of the machines and the Windows Firewall on Vista is turned off. My vista computer isn't seen in the Available computers in the workgroup on the XP machines. However, when I ping the Vista computer by name I get a reply. Mapping a share from one of the XP machines on the Vista machine is no problem. What am I missing to get a Vista share mapped to my XP machines? thanks, Micah 
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September 17th 07, 05:42 PM
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Sharing folders b/w vista and XP
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:24:27 -0700, jmellis
wrote: I'm trying to share a folder on my new vista business laptop with my old computers running XP Pro. I've followed all the steps found on Microsoft's Technet article "File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista"(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...bb727037.aspx). When I try to map the folder on my XP machines I get "The network path \\computer\share cannot be found". I have no third-party firewall on any of the machines and the Windows Firewall on Vista is turned off. My vista computer isn't seen in the Available computers in the workgroup on the XP machines. However, when I ping the Vista computer by name I get a reply. Mapping a share from one of the XP machines on the Vista machine is no problem. What am I missing to get a Vista share mapped to my XP machines? thanks, Micah Micah, I'd check the NetBT setting, and the personal firewalls, and make sure that they are all properly set. http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/0...ing-using.html What antivirus protection do you have? Make sure there's no antiworm component in there. http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...ther-help.html We could look at logs from "browstat status", "ipconfig /all", "net config server", and "net config workstation", from each computer, and maybe 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 2005-2007 [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.
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September 17th 07, 06:08 PM
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Sharing folders b/w vista and XP
Chuck,
Thanks for the help. I went into my adapter properties and File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft networks was unchecked. I enabled it and all is right with the world again. thanks, Micah "Chuck [MVP]" wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:24:27 -0700, jmellis wrote: I'm trying to share a folder on my new vista business laptop with my old computers running XP Pro. I've followed all the steps found on Microsoft's Technet article "File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista"(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...bb727037.aspx). When I try to map the folder on my XP machines I get "The network path \\computer\share cannot be found". I have no third-party firewall on any of the machines and the Windows Firewall on Vista is turned off. My vista computer isn't seen in the Available computers in the workgroup on the XP machines. However, when I ping the Vista computer by name I get a reply. Mapping a share from one of the XP machines on the Vista machine is no problem. What am I missing to get a Vista share mapped to my XP machines? thanks, Micah Micah, I'd check the NetBT setting, and the personal firewalls, and make sure that they are all properly set. http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/0...ing-using.html What antivirus protection do you have? Make sure there's no antiworm component in there. http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...ther-help.html We could look at logs from "browstat status", "ipconfig /all", "net config server", and "net config workstation", from each computer, and maybe 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 2005-2007 [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.
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September 17th 07, 08:01 PM
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Sharing folders b/w vista and XP
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:08:00 -0700, jmellis
wrote: "Chuck [MVP]" wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:24:27 -0700, jmellis wrote: I'm trying to share a folder on my new vista business laptop with my old computers running XP Pro. I've followed all the steps found on Microsoft's Technet article "File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista"(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...bb727037.aspx). When I try to map the folder on my XP machines I get "The network path \\computer\share cannot be found". I have no third-party firewall on any of the machines and the Windows Firewall on Vista is turned off. My vista computer isn't seen in the Available computers in the workgroup on the XP machines. However, when I ping the Vista computer by name I get a reply. Mapping a share from one of the XP machines on the Vista machine is no problem. What am I missing to get a Vista share mapped to my XP machines? thanks, Micah Micah, I'd check the NetBT setting, and the personal firewalls, and make sure that they are all properly set. http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/0...ing-using.html What antivirus protection do you have? Make sure there's no antiworm component in there. http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...ther-help.html We could look at logs from "browstat status", "ipconfig /all", "net config server", and "net config workstation", from each computer, and maybe 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 Chuck, Thanks for the help. I went into my adapter properties and File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft networks was unchecked. I enabled it and all is right with the world again. Well, Micah, if you truly want to share files, F&PSMN needs to be enabled. Glad you spotted that. ;-) Thanks for the update. http://bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com/2006/09/peer-support-it-works-only-if-you-help.html http://bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot...-you-help.html -- Cheers, Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [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.
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