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Make XP computers show up in Vista's Network

Jason — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:05:10 GMT

The new Network Map in Windows Vista allows you to easily create a map of all computers on your network and see how they are connected. This works by using the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) protocol that is only part of Windows Vista.

To help users of mixed environments of both Windows Vista and Windows XP, Microsoft has released the Link Layer Topology Discovery Responder for Windows XP. This will make your Windows XP computers show up in the Network Map in Windows Vista.

This package contains the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) responder. The network map on a computer running Windows Vista shows a graphical view of the computers and devices on your network and how they are connected by using the LLTD protocol. The LLTD responder must be installed on a computer running Windows XP before it can be detected and appear on the network map. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

Click here to download the update for Windows XP SP2

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required password for XP

AMG — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:35:15 GMT

Hi all, I have read through some posts and have found close to my problem but not quite, mine seems to be a bit opposite.

I have one laptop XP home and one laptop vista home premium,

both computers are on same workgroup, both computers have file sharing turned on

the vista machine has password protection DISABLED.

( I have also tried disabling the windows firewalls on both machines)

The xp machine seems to have access to the public forlder of the vista machine, but

the vista machine asks for a password when i try and access the xp computer. I have tried every username and every password of all the accounts on both machines but nothing lets me in, any ideas ?

thanks, AMG

Wireless Connection problem - constant drop outs (Intel Pro 3945ABG wireless NIC)

huey85 — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:53:15 GMT

Hi guys I recently purchased a new HP Pavilion laptop which came with Vista Home Premium and I have been having constant drop outs and connection problems with my laptop and wireless billion modem/router (BIPAC-743GE). My connection strength is never above 60% - Always on Good connection, never goes up to Very Good or Excellent - my old Laptop which had Windows XP always had Very Good and Excellent connections. It also never had drop outs.

What I mean by 'drop outs', is that after a period of time being connected to the modem/router, my laptop will disconnect (not entirely) from the modem/router and I end up with a Limited Connection (Local Only). This happens after being connected for only 2 hours or so *the time varies every now and then* When I try to disconnect from the modem/router and try to reconnect, my laptop cannot find any wireless connections until I actually restart the laptop. Also, I am using the HP Wireless Assistant which came preinstalled.

Note: none of the other 2 computers (running XP) on the network that are using the same wireless/modem router - 1 is wired connection and the other one is wireless - drop out of have poor connections.

All of my drivers are up to date, I have disabled IPv6 and have manually configured my IP, Gateway and DNS settings in IPv4.

Would anyone have any clue what is up with this? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

[SOLVED] Shared HP Printer - XP to Vista Network Problem

Jcol — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:33:26 GMT

I have a Vista Preminum Home desktop computer connected to an HP 1018 LaserJet printer. This is setup as a shared network printer and is used by my two XP laptops which connect wirelessly. I set this up last summer andboth laptops were able to print to theHP printer. I have made no changes recently to the network setup however at some point during the last few weeks the laptops stop printing. Now what happens is the print jobs are sent to the Vista computer and can be seen in Print Manager, however they get stuck there. Print Manager says it is printing, but the documents never come out. In addition I cannot cancel or delete the print jobs that are sent from the laptop computers. I have tried stopping and starting the spooler service but that does nothing. If I do a restart of the Vista computer during the restart the documents do get printed out,, so the restart seems to flush them out of print manager. A couple of other points, print jobs from the Vista computer print fine, however if a print job from a laptop is stuck in Print Manager the Vista print job will not print till I go through the restart sequence. Also this all used to work fine, I suspect a Vista update has come down and changed something. I have seen this problem posted at various places around the net, but so far I have not found a solution. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

Network Discovery

macs — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:26:26 GMT

Hi All,

I am currently trying to use my vista home machine with media player 11 as a upnp server. I have done this in the past with the same machine running xp with no problems.

Vista is uptodate as from yesterday with all including optional updates.

The problem is when trying to turn on "Network Discovery" I need the services dnscache, fdrespub, ssdpsrv, and upnphost all started. dnscache, ssdpsrv, and upnphost are all running ok however I have a problem with fdrespub.

When I try to start fdrespub I get an error message "Windows could not start the Function Discovery Resource Publication service on Local Computer. Error 0x80070001: Incorrect function."

The compter belongs to the WORKGROUP workgroup and has been disconnected from any network. I have disabled my antivirus software and windows firewall none of which help.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Kieran

Poor network performance - even on x-over cable with TP

stuza — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:15:38 GMT

HI Guys

im trying to get HD stuff to stream and its jerky as hell so, in order to rule out the network I dropped back to a x-over ethernet cable with the server direct to a device (I tried a laptop and a HD media player). However, this was still jerky. So, next step, I put a free FTP server on the server and then tried to connect via FTP and copy over the file. The best I could get was 11meg a second.

For the life of me, in my simple view of things, all seems good so, I thought i'd ask the experts for tips. Please take a quick look at the specs below and see if you can see why I'm only getting 11meg and im open to suggestions!

Desktop(Ftp server)->x-over->Laptop(Ftp client) = 11meg a second
Desktop(Ftp server)->homeplug(bedroom)->Laptop(Ftp client) = 4meg a second

Ouch. So none of these are particuly good considering the direct connection with nothing in the middle.

The PC's specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @3.00
Ram 4gb
Vista Home Premium 64
Boot disks SATA1: 2xWD Raptors (stripe)
Storage SATA2: 2x Hitachi 1TB disks (stripe)

Important bit?:

Generic Marvell Yukon 88E8056 Ethernet Controller

Settings below, any ideas?

[*]Flow control - TX/RX Enabled
[*]Interrupt Moderation - Enabled
[*]IPv4 Checksum Rx Enabled
[*]Jumbo Packet - 1514 (smallest option, cant disable)
[*]Large Send Offload (IPv4) - Disabled
[*]Max IRQ per sec - 10,000
[*]Priority & VLAN - Priority and VLAN Disabled
[*]Receive Buffers - 512
[*]Speed & Duplex - Auto-Negotiation (tried forcing 100/full)
[*]TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4) - Tx & Rx Enabled
[*]Transmit Buffers - 256
[*]UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4) - Tx & Rx Enabled

The devices connect at 100meg but I can't see where to see if this is Full duplex or not.

So, any ideas? I'm really struggling.... and very confused.

Thanks in advance!

Internet problems

JesifY — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:14:35 GMT

Well this shitty internet has another problem but this time it's even more worse then when
it use to cut out every 60 seconds. Ok heres the problem.

I play cs fine for 1-3 minutes then it starts to cut out then comes back on. Does it again a few times
then it cut's out completely and the only way to fix it is by [b]disabling the wireless network then enabling it again[/b]
then starts over cutting out blah blah.

When i click the repair option - I get this.

[img]http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6804/90095261oj5.jpg[/img]

Which says this when i click "Click for imformation on troubleshooting low wireless signal quality problems

[img]http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/1032/76708085lh7.jpg[/img]

This never happend with the USB wireless stick. With the usb stick it just froze every 60 seconds.
Now that i have a pci card i think it's even worse. Can someone try and fix this for me, it's annoying as fuck. Also when gaming i loose connection on me and freeze but everyone else is moving, it's mostly everybody freezing though.
and soon im not gonna put up with it and im just going to stop playing. I can't handle this. :/

Vista Desktop Can't See Vista Laptop

kinger9120 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:59:13 GMT

I have two laptops running windows vista and one desktop running windows vista. The laptops are connected to the router through a wireless connection and the desktop is connected to the router through an ethernet cord. When I open up my network from the start menu, I can only see my desktop computer. When I open up my network from the two laptops they can see each other but not the desktop.

In the network sharing center I have network discovery, file sharing, public folder sharing, printer sharing, and media sharing all on while password protected sharing is off. Can anyone help me with this problem. My ultimate goal is to be able to print from the laptops, thanks.

can not conect to internet

peterlds — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:37:33 GMT

Hi,my name is Peter from Dominican republic i need your help on this big problem i have with my window vista home premium internet connection ,last night i was installing the free avast 4 home edition and not on purpose i turn off the computer during the anti-virus scan and i lost the internet connectivity i been trying to solve the problem with the automatic repair system and it say to contact my internet provider but when i used my partner's window vista home premium it work properly.I have restored the window and the gateway restore system,also disable the firewall and defender it could not fix the problem at all .

Please give an idea on this big mess.

Peter

XP machine can't see Vista machine

bobc4d — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:42:30 GMT

I beaten my head against the wall for two days trying to get this sorted out.

I have a machine with Vista running Live OneCare and Windows Defender, the other machine has XP with Windows XP firewall and AVG antivirus.

I can ping the XP machine form the Vista machine and I can see all the public folders on the XP machine.

I can not ping the Vista machine from the XP machine and I can not see any public folders or the printer on the Vista machine.

I changed all the settings I can on Live OneCare to make it as less secure as possible but without any help, I still couldn't see the Vista machine from the XP machine.

both machines connect through a Linksys firewall/router and each is able to connect to the internet. The machine with Vista did have XP on it before the upgrade and I had no problems with networking the two, so I can pretty much eliminate the router as the problem.

I have ensured that they are both in the same workgroup.

thanks,

bob

Cannot obtain ownership information x: socket intialization failed

Vinayaka — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:30:00 GMT

Hi All,

I have java application which works fine in XP by opening the expected socket.

But the same application is failed to open in socket on windows vista. When I run netstat -anb

I seen the error "Cannot obtain ownership information x: socket intialization failed".

Any help on this will help me to a gr8 extent.

Thanks

Vinayak

Dual Boot Networking Setup

Korvet — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:05:42 GMT

Problem: I am unable to connect to the internet.
I have a new build dual boot system with Vista x64 SP 1 Home Premium on C: drive Seagate 120G 7200, XP Home Edition SP 2 on E: drive Seagate 160G 7200. A third Seagate 500G is for games, etc. Vista was installed first and the internet connection works. XP works well except I cannot make an internet connection. I have a Linksys WRB54G router which takes its internet connection from my cable company's modem. I have 4 ethernet connection points: 1 goes to a desktop, another goes to a notebook, the third goes to the computer in question and the fourth is unused. This router also has wireless capability. My build chassis is a Thermaltake "Kandalf" LCS, 1000W CoolerMaster, XFX 790i Ultra MB, Core2 Duo E8500 at 3.16 GHz, 4gig Corsair DDR3 in two 2gig sticks, two XFX 9800GX2 in quad SLI, a cd/dvd drive, and a floppy, kb, and mouse. Motherboard has two ethernet ports, one in use (Vista).
I am not familiar enough with networking to know how to proceed. The Connection Wizard is no help, 'specially since I don't know what I am doing :). Looking for help.

Can't Connect to the internet! Hardware, Software problem?

aav240sx — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:16:59 GMT

Today I just reformatted my computer, which had xp and performed a clean install of vista ultimate onto my desktop. I was able to install vista relatively easily, but now I can't get my computer to connect to the internet or to even see the wireless network.

I have tried trouble shooting with vista, but it keeps telling me the problem is either my hardware not being connected properly or I need to install new drivers. I am positive my hardware is plugged in right and I've installed the software that came with the wireless card.

I've searched around for similar problems but haven't been able to find anything. So if there's any links on here that explains a solution to my problem please share! Thanks.

internet ex8

speed — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:46:33 GMT

i recently installed ie8 and it sucks how do I uninstall it?

Offline Files "Access Denied"

agotay — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:35:29 GMT

We have Corporate laptops machines with Vista Enterprice edition and we use Offline Files. All laptops are in the domain and have a GPO to enable and encypt the offline files. After the SP1, now we receive the "Access Denied Error" at all Vista laptops, no issues to other Windows versions.

Here are some of the workarounds we all ready did without luck;
1.Change from the OU one of the laptops, disable the Offline Files, reboot, and enable offline files againg.
2.Change the security for the \\fileservername\share\userfolder folder to Everyone Full Control.
3.Enable the opportunistic locking at the server.
4.Reset and Delete the "C:\Windows\CSC" folder
5.On laptop we add the registry key; [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MRXSmb\Parameters] "OplocksDisabled"=dword:00000000
6.On the File Server we add the registry key; [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters] "EnableOplocks"=dword:00000001
7.Check for changes on the current GPO and not changes have been made after March 2008.
8.Remove and move againg the laptop to the OU an verified that they receive the GPO policies from the domain and they apply just fine. GPO Details are;
List of applicable Group Policy objects:
-OS Settings - Screen Saver Timeout
-Software Settings - Corporate Office 2007 Default Doc Extension
-Software Settings - Corporate Blocked Content
-Software Settings - Global IE Settings
-OS Settings - CA Certificate Enrollment
Default Domain Policy
-Desktop Settings-SDC Laptop Users Screensaver settings
-Desktop Settings - Folder Redirection and Std. Mappings
-IT Homepage.
9.At http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935663 mentions to install a hotfix but the files versions that mentions (Kernel32.dll and Cscsvc.dll) are more new on the laptop now than the ones the KB says.
10.After the sync we receive the access denied error no matter on were OU is in the laptop.

Without Offline Files enable the users can successfully use their data via UNC or Mappings. They can change, rename, deleting, etc... Then, after enabling the offline files again and when doing the sync we receive the access denied error again on must of the files.

File and printer sharing problem

Michael_C — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:54:58 GMT

New to Vista - currently have Vista Home Premium on new HP machine - Other machines on the network are running XP Pro. The Vista machine can access other PC's drives, but the XP machines have trouble accessing the C drive, and printing via printer attached to the Vista machine. The XP machines can access a folder added to the desktop, the public folder, and a file I created sitting in folder C:\Temp.

I have "Network discovery", "File Sharing", Public Folder Sharing", and "Printer sharing" set. I have "Password protected sharing" off

When I set up the C drive for sharing, I see reference that the drive is being shared, but never had option to change the sharing permissions - e.g, dialog - "Choose people to share with". The "Share" button on sharing tab is not available.

Any ideas on why the printer and teh C drive is not accessible?

Vista TCP/IP Stack

mlong30 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:23:29 GMT

Hi All,

I have the following entries in my TCP/IP stack for Vista Home Premium, and just want to make sure if there is anything I can remove. This is the first time I've seen two TCP/IP versions in a stack since I'm coming from XP, NT, and 2000. I'm also not sure what the Link-Layer is all about, and can it be removed.

Client for Microsoft Networks
Qos Packet Scheduler
File and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks
Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)
Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/Ipv4)
Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver
Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder

Thanks in advanced.

Matt

Constant Wireless disconnects

brosio — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:58:19 GMT

Hello,

I just bought a Compaq Presario SR5448F Desktop PCs and a belkin usb wireless -n adapter. this machine came with windows vista home premium

I can connect to the internet ok but after an intermittent time i will be disconnected. If I click on the wireless icon from the tray and refresh my networks none are found.

If I physically pull out the usb wireless adapter and then plug it back in, then the computer detects the adapter and reconnects me to my network and i can again see the internet.

But I will lose my connect again after abit.

I have a laptop (toshiba satelite pro) with an internal wifi_n card and when in the same room it does not suffer the disconnects at all.

Any idea why i get these disconnects and what can i change/tweak to make them stop.

thanks

Brosio

Vista won't connect to the Internet using IE

shaketyshake — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:09:55 GMT

My computer is connected to the internet, I can get AIM to work, so it isnt a connection problem, but Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari won't connect to any websites. I've reinstalled all of them to see if it was a problem with the program but since none of them work and my computer still has internet connectivity I'm at a loss to what to do. I think all my drivers are updated but I'm not too computer savvy so I wouldn't know what to do to troubleshoot them. I just have to say that Vista sucks!

Vista wireless LAN & WAN very slow

GregDude — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:03:41 GMT

On of my Vista PCs on my home network has a wireless NIC. It connects to the wireless router without problem and shows 'excellent' signal strength. It's speed however is terrible. It transfers data at about 16kbps and this tends to slow down over time. It is so slow, many network actions timeout. I just copied a 35mb file and it took over 45mins to copy between 2 Vista PCs over wireless LAN.

Internet is the same. Web pages appear, then very slowly populate. The last items can take many minutes to appear. A FTP download may start at 10-20kbps then wind down to bytes per second.

Connecting with wired cable via the onboard NIC to the same router works with full speed.(I have to physically move the PC to perform this test, or I'd just stick with wire.) I have another WinXP PC connected wirelessly also, which works fine.

System:
OS: Vista 32 SP1
RAM: 2GB
NIC: Asus WL-138G-V2 802.11b/g+54Mbps, PCI, 2.4GHz, WMM, ExAntenna
Video: nVidia Geforce 7800GTX
Monitor: Benq 22" LCD something
Mouse: MS Explorer mouse (wired)
Router: NetGear WGR 614 rev 7

So far I have tried all kinds of reported solutions:

* Disable AutoTuningLevel
* Patch 931770
* Vista SP1 beta
* Disable Indexing
* Disable remote diff
* Disable firewall (temporarily, and check for other software conflict)
* Disable other NIC
* Replaced Router + WAP with new Wireless Router
* Removed G7 mouse (uses similar RF as network)
* Disconnected other PCs on LAN

Nothing has made an improvement so far.

Please help if you can. Everything 'works', just real slow.

Problem with internet connectivity (broken connections I think)

ashraf_sabry_m — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:26:27 GMT

Greetings,

I've been running Windows Vista home premium on my PC for a long time, and I'm connected to the internet through an ADSL line.

The PC is connected to the ADSL router through a direct ethernet connection, and every thing was going great.

Recently, my internet connection started to suffer a terrible performance degradation, It's not something related to connection speed, but it was that when I open a web page, the HTML page is displayed but most of the images and other content are not downloaded, sometimes the entire page is not loaded, and the problem occurs on all the web browsers I used.

Using an HTTP monitoring tool, I found out that the requests for the images end with error or time out status.

I suspected the physical connection, so I changed the ADSL splitter, and fixed the phone wires, but the problem still occurs.

I have Virtual PC installed on my Vista OS, when I run a Windows XP image on Virtual PC, I find that the internet connection performs very well in the virtually running OS, and the web pages are fully displayed within the usual time periods, meaning that the problem is not of the ADSL router, the network card driver nor the ADSL line.

I also tried to connect to the router through USB, but the problem still there.

I have Windows Updates turned on, and I blindly install the downloaded updates, which makes me suspect that one of these updates has corrupted my tcp/ip protocol stack driver.

I feel that the problem is caused of some kind of restrictions made on the number of concurrent tcp connections a browser can made, or else why direct file download works with the full 256 Kbps line speed while web page loading (which involves many connections) suffers bad performance?

I think that the problem is complicated, and I don't remember which update may be causing the problem, I just hope that one of the forum members will provide me with a point to start from because I have no idea what's causing this behaviour.

Thank you for your help.

"Local Only" Network Access

gundam743 — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:42:20 GMT

I own a Dell Inspiron 1720 with Vista, bought less than six months ago. Everything has worked well for me so far except one thing: I cannot get internet access on my home network.

I have tried and succeeded in connecting to networks with internet access at different places other than my home. Also, this is not an intermittent problem: from the point I connect, I am only able to get "local only" access. This is so for both wireless and wired connections. I have tried random solutions gathered from the net, including disabling ipv6 and such, but as of yet nothing has worked.

One thing everyone seems to say is that vista has compatability issues with older routers; my router is a westell versalink 327W, and the dsl works fine with my windows xp dell desktop when plugged into that router.

One other thing: I don't have norton on my computer, I have Mcafee, and I have tried connecting with it disabled, but no go; I haven't tried uninstalling it, would that make a difference?

Obviously, my question is: What should I do?

vista networking problem

wabbit — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:38:19 GMT

hi, nice site, and i just cant figure this out.

i had vista see my workgroup for about 2 weeks, i don't remember changing anything, yet today the xp machines (which run sp3) cant see vista and vice versa.

local discovery is on, same router, file sharing is enabled, workgroups are all the same. the notebook which runs vista is connected through wireless into a wrvs4400n router, internet traffic passes, with or with out firewall i cant see the local network (pc's devices).
edit: on the vista machine network is flagged as private.
also i am able to ping the local ip from xp to vista and get replies.
any help.

Program on Vista OS accessed from Network's XP-OS computers but not from Vista computers

raykon — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:21:45 GMT

I am running into trouble running a program on all my computers on my network. I am using a book inventory software called Booktrakker. The program uses an Access database file system and theoretically runs perfect on networks.

My database has now almost 32'000 records and runs on a Vista Computer (replacing an XP-operated predecessor). All other satellite computers should optimally connect to this main PC but I noticed that only computers that have Vista on them have difficulty running Booktrakker. For some reason, not all Vista computers can connect simultaneously, and sometimes I do have to shut down Booktrakker on the main PC to have a satellite computer even start Booktrakker.

I played around with permissions on the main computer to basically give permission to "everyone" to access, read and modify the working Booktrakker folder without having any success.
Did I miss something in the networking/Vista? or it is just the program? Or it is just me?

Thanks

Cannot ping my home computer (and only my home computer)?

githlar — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:27:35 GMT

I have a Linux computer set up at home to allow me to remotely access it. However, for some reason Vista seems to not like my IP address or something. I've tried to connecting to my home computer with my program on 5 machines. Three of them are running Vista, one is running XP and one is running either NT or 2000 - I forget. The point is, it's only the Vista machines that cannot connect. But that's not the kicker, the kicker is that ping and tracert don't work either! They work when pinging or tracerting other computers, but not my computer back home. I also had my father try pinging the computer that I use here and he couldn't do it either. But from the gathered information (which is a lot) it leads me to believe that some addition in Vista is the problem.

Home computer:
IP: 68.102.244.212 (Try to ping my router with a Vista machine - I'm curious if you'll get the same result)
Computer Type: Router (In other words, not an actual computer)

This computer:
OS: Vista Home Premium
Ping/Tracert to Home Computer Fails
Cannot remotely administrate home computer
ISP: Sprint DSL
Firewall: Norton Internet Security (Turned this as well as Windows Firewall off and still got nothing)
Additional Notes: Tried turning off one service at a time to see if disabling one of them would fix it - no.

Computer #2 (Kiosk):
OS: Windows 2000 or Windows NT
Ping/Tracert to home computer succeeds
Can remotely administrate home computer
ISP: Unknown
Firewall: None

Computer #3:
OS: Windows XP Home
Ping/Tracert to home computer succeeds
Can remotely administrate home computer
ISP: Charter high speed internet (Cable)
Firewall status unknown

Computer #4/#5:
OS: Windows Vista (of some type)
Pint/Tracert to home computer fails
Cannot remotely administrate home computer
ISP: Charter high speed internet (Cable)
Firewall status unknown

Destination Folder Access Denied

bj33790 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:32:11 GMT

Hi, I have searched the internet for hours trying to find a solution to this....anyone here know...please!!

I am running Vista Ultimate on one PC and XP Pro SP2 on another. I am the only user and have full admin rights on both (I checked) They are connected by a wired home network. I can see and browse the XP PC from the Vista PC, install programs from the XP PC onto the Vista PC - no problem BUT.... when I am using the Vista PC and try to copy a file across from the XP PC I can see the file appear in the Vista folder (using drag & drop) but then I get the dreaded "Destination Folder Acess Denied....You need permission toperform this action" you can only click 'RETRY.'or 'CANCEL'....of course RETRY just repeats the errorwindow and CANCel removes the file that you have dropped into the destination folder. As I am the owner with full rights over the folder, does anyone know what this message means and how to set whatever 'permission' is required?

thanks in hopeful anticipation.....

wireless internet access

rickyh33 — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:30:11 GMT

hi there i have a small problem getting on to the net via wireless connection. currently i have 2 laptops connected to the net through my netgear router. 1 is on xp and have no problems the new 1 is vista basic and shows local access only can anyone help and tell me how to change this to local and internet thanks all help would be appreciated.

Ricky

Nothing can access to internet except IE

excite — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:39:26 GMT

Hi, I got a really serious problem with my system, except IE, skype and MSN, no other softwares can access to internet, including firefox, bitcomet, and some other p2p softwares.
I am using vista home premium on HP laptop, I tried turning off firewall and antivirus software, also using port forward for p2p software, but nothing different, really frustrating, advice please

bonjour/Vista32home/MacG4/EpsonRX620

lister — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:25:44 GMT

Hi everyone,

I have been trying for ever to get vista to print
to my mac g4/USB/Epson RX620.

I have located the printer in bonjour for vista and have
assigned the generic driver. I have also tried and assigned the
epson RX620 Driver.

If I print from vista the file gets sent and then gets stopped in the
printer list on the mac g4. I have started the jobs again and have tried
using the epson driver.

Im not sure where to go now? Has anyone used the same set-up??

ps: printer sharing is on Mac G4 and using no firewall for the mo

thanks

lister

No One can figure this out?!? (repost 164 views - no answers)

PL1016 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:09:59 GMT

In my original post in april:

"I have a couple of computers that i had to replace on our nt domain, which i swapped out for new units with vista ult 32-bit and joined our local domain. The problem i am having is that vista is reseting the desktop and mapped drives every time a regular user logs off. My administrative account is fine and doesn't have this problem, but i can't have everyone logging on as administrators. Im just stumped on this one.... any thoughts? "

i am really stuck here people, there has to be someone else that has ran into this problem before.

Verizon USB 720 gave me an error on my laptop

ckubojiri — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:06:48 GMT

Hi...I'm trying to connect to the internet on my laptop using the Verizon USB 720 that connects through the USB port. I got the following message: "Connection Error 711." Can anyone help me figure out what this means and how to fix it. Thanks!

Wireless connection Local Only, but not really? please help

KitsuneJM — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:52:05 GMT

Hello, a couple of days ago i downloaded and installed the automatic update for Skype to Skype 3.8. For the first time Skype could not connect. Skype tech support had me temporarily enable telnet to test port 80 and another typical skype port. Prior, they had me remove skype and all skype registry keys. Then I installed a internet explorer add on that allows for searching for words while typing similar to firefox. I was watching streaming video and the computer froze up. so i shut it down and restarted, only to have the internet connection go full, then drop to "local only" I examined the hardware and none of the devices are having problems. So i tried resetting the router, updating router firmware, resetting TCP/IP settings, probably every solution i could find for this sudden problem. I did notice when the this first was starting i had usb adaptor driver problems, but that is reinstalled now too, i even reinstalled network drivers and checked for updates just in case. But I'm out of solutions now and I need help.

I will add that I can connect to Windows Live Messenger, Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client, QQ messenger, Google Talk, and now after putting the newer skype beta i can connect to skype. but for some reason i cannot browse the web, and cannot connect to yahoo or windows update server. The Vista computer seems to think it is a local only connection, but it seems it really isn't, but maybe having difficulty accessing ports. I am wondering if this can be a missing file problem or registry issue.

I want to also add that I can ping yahoo.com. Also, i can connect to http://www.k9webprotection.com in my browser. I've made sure it wasn't the filter causing the issue. i have tried disabling the antivirus, and i've made sure there was no firewall up.
I don't want to do a repair install of windows if not necessary.

The vista system is a Sony Vaio VGN-FE890 with Windows Vista Business.

Please help me!

resetting network

Luvthekeys — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:23:16 GMT

I have a wireless network set up between two vista computers, a desktop and laptop. For a while I could access both computers from each other after it asked for a password when I accessed them. Somehow Windows One Care added a object labeled OC12345478 which seemed to prevent me from access my desktop from my laptop.

I recieve the following message when I try to open the desktop pc from my laptop. "\\luvthekeys-PC is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this netowrk resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Logon failure: The user had not been granted the requested logon type at this computer." I have checked the settings on both computers and as far as I can see they are identical. I know I am missing something but dont know what is is since at one point it was working. I also cant see the media server on the desktop from the laptop.

Now after trying to fix the problem I have one 1 One Care Object on the network,however when I try to access it it shows the drives etc. however when I click on one of the objects it gives me an error message "Windows cannot access \\OC5563456177\M Drive. Check th espelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. Try to identify and resolve network problems, click to diagnose." I then get the message, "M drive is available but the user accound that your are logged on with was denied access."

I cant seem to figure out where I went wrong and would like to start from scratch if that is possible. Any suggestions would be most welcome. I am using a netgear 3300 and both computers are running Vista SP1

Thanks, LTK

Third 802.11 wireless card. Need to always repair connection. Other computers fine

mikem1977 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:19:56 GMT

I have 4 wireless devices in my household-- 2 laptops, a Roku Netflix player, and my desktop PC. The laptops and Roku player never drop the wireless network connection provided by my DLink wireless router. They always work.

My desktop PC runs a fresh install of Windows Vista Home Premium.

I'm on my 3rd brand new PCI wireless card on the desktop in hopes for a stable connection-- a Linksys PCI Rangebooster, a Linksys WMP54G, and now a D-Link card that is in the same family as the D-Link router.

They *all* exhibit the same problem. Every few hours, I need to "Repair" the wireless connection. This does the trick but is quite annoying.

Any ideas?

slow internet after returning from holiday- out of ideas?

hit it with a hammer — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:04:50 GMT

Hi people,
I am stuck. Since returning from a 3 week holiday my internet is really slow, downloading at 15 KB/s instead of 150 KB/s. My housemate uses the same wireless router and his connection is fine. I initially thought it was due to 1 of the 8 vista updates that auto-installed when i first rebooted, but after uninstalling them, and also trying a system restore, internet was still slow.
I have run virus scan. I have phishing filter turned off. I have defragmented. I have cleaned my temp folders and history etc. I changed my power settings. Nothing has helped...
Does anyone have any suggestions on what to try next???

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Lost E icon on desktop

mustang2000 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:08:52 GMT

I lost the E {internet explorer} icon on my desktop. All i can do is get a shortcut back, but i want the original one back. I want it so i can acess Interent properties easily. i looked this up on yahoo, and found this. Does this really work? Any other, way to do this?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-internet-explorer-7-icon-to-the-desktop-in-windows-vista/

[SOLVED] Touching mousepad and minimizing screen.....

SixInARow — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:41:25 GMT

I have a Toshiba laptop, and use the touchpad for everything. The problem I am having I have only encountered when surfing the internet, as it's about the only thing I use the computer for. Oftentimes when touching the pad the screen will either minimize or go to about 2/3 the size of the screen. Sometimes when I have tapped the pad when the pointer is on the x it will minimize repeatedly before close. It's really freaking annoying as navigating websites while the screen is constantly shrinking/minimizing several times in a row. Is there a fix for this?

Vista XP Network

Luvthekeys — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:44:29 GMT

I bought a laptop and decided to setup a wireless network with my Desktop Machine. The Laptop is running Vista SP1 and the Desktop is running XP SP3. The network is setup and I can access the Printer, connect to the Internet and see some files on the XP Machine. However when viewing the network on the Vista machine it shows the XP machine as a Media Server. Also when I go to My Network Places on the XP machine it shows the XP Machine as on the Local Network, however it shows the Vista Machine as on the Internet. Is that normal? Any suggestions as to what I should do. Thanks in advance.

P.S. As you can see from my question this is my first experience in setting up a network.

LTK

Advent lap/Vista hates my sky router

jay999 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:48:22 GMT

Guys have just been given a band new Advent laptop .

Im on sky and am having great probs with trying to conect to my sky ( netgear DG934G) router on the wire less side of things .

Eithernet is fine but vista / pc will not communicate wth the router even though it can see the wireless network and id the router .

We have got as far as inputting the network key in and then the problems begi

Any ideas ..

Cheers in advance

Jay

Very, very slow Networking with Vista

indie1982 — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:53:59 GMT

Hi everyone, I'm running build 5384 on a Dell Precision 370 and a Precision 380. I've tried 64 and 32bit versions but I keep having the following problem:

Basically I can access the internet but very, very slowly. Most pages just time out.

The machines both have Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit NIC's connected to Dell Powerconnect Gigabit switches. I've tried Manual IP config and DHCP but I can't get a reasonable speed through via ethernet!

There's nothing wrong with the network, I've got hundreds of XP 32bit and x64 clients connected to the same network and they can all access the Internet fine.

I can ping other clients on the netowork from the Vista machines and I get <1ms Ping times, there's nothing wrong with DNS or gateways etc. I just have a feeling this is a NIC or software issue. I've got no other NIC's a can try with the machines either.

It's not a problem with our ISP as the slow ethernet connection is also happening whilst trying to transfer files internally across the network. I've tried changing port on the switch, i've even tried another manufacturer's switch which didn't help! I've replaced network cables also.

I can't even get either of the machines to connect to Windows Update, it just times out!

Any ideas anyone?