I recently bought a new laptop with Vista loaded. I cleaned the hard drive
and did a clean install of Vista Ultimate and all worked well.

I could see my 10 other computers and 2 servers in my home office network
which has multiple OS with a wireless and wired network:
XP Pro
2000 Pro
Server 2003
Ubuntu - Linux
MAC 9

I could get to all of the shared drives on each machine. I could not get to
My Vista laptop shared docs but I could resolve that later. I could also RDP
to my computers also from the laptop.

I took my laptop to a computer lab I have at our chuch for them and the
public. I have a WPA wireless network. When I connected to the wireless
network it asked me if I wanted to do public or private. I was being asked
questions by 2 people during and did not fully read the options.

I selected "Private" and connected to the internet without a problem (so I
thought).

When I returned to my home office network I could not see any of the above
computers or connect to them. I can ping them by name and connect to the
internet.

I have the settings at:
"Private network"
All are in the same workgroup name "LCHOME"
Network Discovery = On
File sharing = On
Public folder sharing = On (Turn on sharing so anyone with network access
can open, change, and create files)
Printer sharing = Off
Password protected sharing = On
Media sharing = Off

I can connect to the internet and RDP currently.

Thanks in advance.

Find the XP IP address and then on Vista computer do net view \\xp ip. What
you receive any system error?

--
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


"LLively" wrote in message
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I recently bought a new laptop with Vista loaded. I cleaned the hard drive
and did a clean install of Vista Ultimate and all worked well.

I could see my 10 other computers and 2 servers in my home office network
which has multiple OS with a wireless and wired network:
XP Pro
2000 Pro
Server 2003
Ubuntu - Linux
MAC 9

I could get to all of the shared drives on each machine. I could not get
to
My Vista laptop shared docs but I could resolve that later. I could also
RDP
to my computers also from the laptop.

I took my laptop to a computer lab I have at our chuch for them and the
public. I have a WPA wireless network. When I connected to the wireless
network it asked me if I wanted to do public or private. I was being asked
questions by 2 people during and did not fully read the options.

I selected "Private" and connected to the internet without a problem (so I
thought).

When I returned to my home office network I could not see any of the above
computers or connect to them. I can ping them by name and connect to the
internet.

I have the settings at:
"Private network"
All are in the same workgroup name "LCHOME"
Network Discovery = On
File sharing = On
Public folder sharing = On (Turn on sharing so anyone with network access
can open, change, and create files)
Printer sharing = Off
Password protected sharing = On
Media sharing = Off

I can connect to the internet and RDP currently.

Thanks in advance.

I can ping the XP machine without errors of any kind. Average 5ms.

I can ping all of them in the network without errors.

"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote:

Find the XP IP address and then on Vista computer do net view \\xp ip. What
you receive any system error?

--
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


"LLively" wrote in message
...
I recently bought a new laptop with Vista loaded. I cleaned the hard drive
and did a clean install of Vista Ultimate and all worked well.

I could see my 10 other computers and 2 servers in my home office network
which has multiple OS with a wireless and wired network:
XP Pro
2000 Pro
Server 2003
Ubuntu - Linux
MAC 9

I could get to all of the shared drives on each machine. I could not get
to
My Vista laptop shared docs but I could resolve that later. I could also
RDP
to my computers also from the laptop.

I took my laptop to a computer lab I have at our chuch for them and the
public. I have a WPA wireless network. When I connected to the wireless
network it asked me if I wanted to do public or private. I was being asked
questions by 2 people during and did not fully read the options.

I selected "Private" and connected to the internet without a problem (so I
thought).

When I returned to my home office network I could not see any of the above
computers or connect to them. I can ping them by name and connect to the
internet.

I have the settings at:
"Private network"
All are in the same workgroup name "LCHOME"
Network Discovery = On
File sharing = On
Public folder sharing = On (Turn on sharing so anyone with network access
can open, change, and create files)
Printer sharing = Off
Password protected sharing = On
Media sharing = Off

I can connect to the internet and RDP currently.

Thanks in advance.

Well....how about this. I was looking on the Vista Laptop after I had pinged
it from the XP machine and low and behold that all my other machines appeared
on the network.

I am guessing that Vista needed a jump start, pinging from another networked
device, to establish a refresh in reverse of the network.

I will keep you posted if anything reverts or otherwise.

"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote:

Find the XP IP address and then on Vista computer do net view \\xp ip. What
you receive any system error?

--
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


"LLively" wrote in message
...
I recently bought a new laptop with Vista loaded. I cleaned the hard drive
and did a clean install of Vista Ultimate and all worked well.

I could see my 10 other computers and 2 servers in my home office network
which has multiple OS with a wireless and wired network:
XP Pro
2000 Pro
Server 2003
Ubuntu - Linux
MAC 9

I could get to all of the shared drives on each machine. I could not get
to
My Vista laptop shared docs but I could resolve that later. I could also
RDP
to my computers also from the laptop.

I took my laptop to a computer lab I have at our chuch for them and the
public. I have a WPA wireless network. When I connected to the wireless
network it asked me if I wanted to do public or private. I was being asked
questions by 2 people during and did not fully read the options.

I selected "Private" and connected to the internet without a problem (so I
thought).

When I returned to my home office network I could not see any of the above
computers or connect to them. I can ping them by name and connect to the
internet.

I have the settings at:
"Private network"
All are in the same workgroup name "LCHOME"
Network Discovery = On
File sharing = On
Public folder sharing = On (Turn on sharing so anyone with network access
can open, change, and create files)
Printer sharing = Off
Password protected sharing = On
Media sharing = Off

I can connect to the internet and RDP currently.

Thanks in advance.