Struggling to get vista to display files on a network

[Allattar]

Well heres the scenario.
I have my old PC hooked up to the wireless network. So I want to grab some of the files off of it and get them on to the new shiny vista running pc.

Ok they are both in the same workgroup fine.
Now Vista quite happily will let me get to the shared Media on the other PC always shows me that, perfectly simple if I wanted to stream media from one to the other.

Actually getting vista to display the other computers shared folders is a pain in the proverbial.

It seems to sometimes allow me to see the other computer and then go into the files from the network centre, but then other times it doesnt. I must be doing something wrong as I have pinned down exactly what I have pressed previously to find the other computer. Whatever it is it doesnt stay set.

If I use the XP machine thats great I can find the vista pc and can get to folders, and seems easy enough to drop files from that into the shared public folders on Vista and I can then move them wherever I want from there.

But to find any shared folders on the XP machine using the vista machine seems really painful. Any tips hints to help appreciated.

 

[ArmoVanBuuren]

I have a similar problem with my icybox nas900 network attached hard drive. Viewing folders and files on an xp machine it works a treat but from the vista machine it is really slow and can normally only view a few of the files on the NAS but never open them.

I have tried turning off windows defender real time protection, upgraded my lan drivers and turned on file sharing in vista. Its got so bad that i have to use an old windows xp laptop if i wanna watch listen to music which is on there.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[deadite66]

try this

if you have secpol.msc try

Run secpol.msc

Go to: Local Policies > Security Options

Find “Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level”

Change Setting from “Send NTLMv2 response only”
to
“Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated”

otherwise in regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

Create the following DWORD value (if it doesn't exist):

LmCompatibilityLevel

And set its value to:

1

 

[Allattar]

ok ill give it a go thanks.