Networking with XP/Vista

Ace Modder · 4 Feb 2007 at 17:10

Hi

I have purchased Vista, will a home network between Xp and Vista be easy to setup?

I currently have 2 rigs XP setup to share net connection and certain folders.

Thanks

Supercow · 4 Feb 2007 at 17:39

My XP machines can acess the media files on my Vista machine, but not vise versa.
I cannot for the life of me get Vista to see any other shares on the network

csmager · 4 Feb 2007 at 18:34

sup3rc0w said:
My XP machines can acess the media files on my Vista machine, but not vise versa.
I cannot for the life of me get Vista to see any other shares on the network

Turn Network Discovery on in Network & Sharing Center?

Supercow · 4 Feb 2007 at 19:01

csmager said:
Turn Network Discovery on in Network & Sharing Center?

It's on

V F · 4 Feb 2007 at 20:13

sup3rc0w said:
My XP machines can acess the media files on my Vista machine, but not vise versa.
I cannot for the life of me get Vista to see any other shares on the network

What happens, is it rejecting the username and pass? or just can't see it period?

ArmoVanBuuren · 4 Feb 2007 at 21:47

Thinlk this is a bug with vista, I have the same problem.

Supercow · 4 Feb 2007 at 21:56

V F said:
What happens, is it rejecting the username and pass? or just can't see it period?

It sees the other pc's, but will not let me access it at all, as if those pc's have nothing to share

killer_uk · 4 Feb 2007 at 22:00

I can access and transfer files to my other XP machine from Vista by manually typing in its IP and going in by that way, is this what you guys mean? Or am I on about something else?

skanky · 4 Feb 2007 at 23:45

i have a problem with vista accessing the share on my NAS, i enter the same username/password as on my XP box, but it gets rejected. its not the access to the share as i have 2 shares on the linkstation and cant get to either of them.

i can access it from my XP box and from the vista box i can access the XP administrative shares (not tried XP-->vista yet) --any ideas where im going wrong?

Tute · 4 Feb 2007 at 23:52

I can't set up sharing at all. I tried enabling all sorts of settings in the Network Center thingy, but I can't get my girlfriend's XP machine (on the network) to find the files at all. It won't even connect. Nor will my machine connect to hers.

Ah well, at least one thing hasn't changed in XP-Vista, and that's the balls File Sharing. :rolleyes:

V F · 4 Feb 2007 at 23:57

Have you tried this? I had no problems connecting to the XP machines but did have the same problem you're having as I had with the Mac, until I changed this...

http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270746

Atari · 4 Feb 2007 at 23:57

I just had to do this when trying to connect to my MacBook:

Control Panel\System and Maintenance\Administrative Tools
Local Security Policy

Local Policies \ Security Options

LAN Manager Authentication Level

Send LM & NTLM

Basically, whenever I tried to log into the MacBook using the right credentials, Vista would add on my computer name as if it was a domain - e.g. in the username field, it would add [Computer Name]/[what I entered]. Doing the above seemed to work for me.

Biscuity · 5 Feb 2007 at 08:27

I may be having the same type of issue.

I am able to access files from an XP pc, but I cannot share out printers from the Vista pc, even to another Vista pc. If the other Vista pc tries to add my shared printers, it will hard crash my Vista pc. The crash is progressive over a few minutes with first the Host Process for Windows Services going down - which crashes everything else.

csmager · 5 Feb 2007 at 10:29

All sounds very bizarre.

I have XP/2003/Vista PCs here and haven't encountered a single problem in accessing files in any fashion.

skanky · 5 Feb 2007 at 21:26

V F said:
Have you tried this? I had no problems connecting to the XP machines but did have the same problem you're having as I had with the Mac, until I changed this...

http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270746

woohoo thats fixed my NAS problem, any way of making it into a double-clickable shortcut file/link to change that like how you merge a registry file.

im bound to forget this at some point

skanky · 10 Feb 2007 at 20:11

Tute said:
I can't set up sharing at all. I tried enabling all sorts of settings in the Network Center thingy, but I can't get my girlfriend's XP machine (on the network) to find the files at all. It won't even connect. Nor will my machine connect to hers.

Ah well, at least one thing hasn't changed in XP-Vista, and that's the balls File Sharing.

not sure if this is of any use but i wasnt able to connect from a XP machine to an administrative share on my vista machine until i added the regkey to the vista machine.

http://www.thewebjedi.com/cs/blogs/meditations/archive/2006/09/17/25.aspx

Lysander · 11 Feb 2007 at 10:03

sup3rc0w said:
My XP machines can acess the media files on my Vista machine, but not vise versa.
I cannot for the life of me get Vista to see any other shares on the network

Weird, it's the other way round for me. My Vista machine can access the XP one but the XP one can't access the Vista machine. This is fine since I've only networked them to copy files but it is a bit odd.

Gornall · 11 Feb 2007 at 10:07

weird, I just installed changed workgroup name and I was away.

I'm only vista machine in house.

ShortWarning · 11 Feb 2007 at 10:21

I can access my xp machines from my vista machine but not visa versa.
Asks for a username and password.

ca9phoenix · 11 Feb 2007 at 10:21

Lysander said:
Weird, it's the other way round for me. My Vista machine can access the XP one but the XP one can't access the Vista machine. This is fine since I've only networked them to copy files but it is a bit odd.

another one here with that problem,
i transfer files from my laptop (xp) downstairs to my desktop (vista) upstairs but can only pull them off via vista, i can't send them via xp!

Networking with XP/Vista

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