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| | I have 2 desktops and 1 laptop in my house, all connected to a router. My laptop running vista ultimate 32 bit is connected to the router wirelessly, 1 desktop running XP home is connected to the router wirelessly, and the other desktop running vista home has an ethernet running into the router. All 3 computers can connect to the internet and see/ping the router. My vista laptop can see and ping the XP boxes just fine. The XP boxes can only see and ping the router, not each other and not the Vista laptop. I dont really care that they cant see each other, im trying to get my wireless XP box to see my vista laptop so I can backup files. Ive done everything i can find on here, same workgroup, installed the LLTD on xp, changed the network type on vista to private, tried turning off my firewall completely, and even tried running an ethernet directly from my laptop to the XP box im trying to connect with. The desktop with XP STILL can not see or ping my vista laptop let alone map a network drive. Any help at all? I was mapping network drives and connecting/pinging other machines all running vista all day but when I come home, I can not get these XP machines to see my vista one. Thanks! |
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| Unless your ethernet cable is a cross-over cable, you won't be able to simply link your XP machine to your Vista machine and expect to "see" each other. DO you have a cross-over cable?
I have a very simple network set up in my home, 1x Vista Home Premium directly cabled to my wireless router, 1x XP Laptop with wireless adaptor. Within my Network and Sharing Centre I have:
1. network set to Private
2. Both desktop and laptop in the same workgroup
3. DHCP turned on via my router (your issue might simply be an IP issue)
4. Network Discovery on
5. File sharing on
6. Public folder sharing on
7. Printer sharing on
Probably the first thing I would check in your setup is the IP address that the machines are using, and see whether they are in the same subnet or not. When switching from one network to another (as you mentioned you do) if you don't have DHCP set the the machine you are bringing home might just be remembering what IP Settings it had at your workplace, and continue to use those.
If you go to a command prompt and type in
ipconfig /all (enter)
you will see settings for all of your possible network connections (physical NIC, wireless, VPN, etc) and whatever is in use currently. Compare this to the machines that are at home.
The fact that the XP machines at home can't see each other sounds like a firewall issue, assuming all IP addresses are in the same range. Are you sure that Windows firewall is turned off on all of these?
Have you checked the pinned Connectivity thread at the top of this forum thread page?
Windows 7 Professional 32bit
AMD x2 Dual Core 3600+ 1.9 GHz
2GB DDR PC2 5300 RAM
NVidia GeForce GTS 250 512Mb
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