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January 17th, 2008 11:00

Problems to connect one Computer with Vista Home Premium and three computers with WXP PRO SP2

I have problem with my Wireless home netwok based on Linksys Wireless router. It connects four computers (one cable and the other wireless) ) namely a DELL LATITUDE 501, a DELL Dimension 4550 (all with Windows XP PRO) and an ACER Aspire (with Windows Media Center 2005), all without any password and on the same workgroup , DHCP enabled, no password in any computer, Firewall disabled on all computers (just to try). Until I added the Vista Inspiron, all worked fine and now still keeps on working fine but only on the XP computers. They can locate the Vista computer on the map, but not access it and the Vista computer does not even succeed in locating the other three. (So the network is still on the three old computers)  The Vista (VIsta Home Premium)  can connect to INTERNET and get/send mail via the router without any problem and identifies correctly the router. The Inspiron has the same workgroup of the other ones  and according to instruction I set to "private" the nework on Vista and shared folders, printers, etc. The only thing that might be different is the subnet mask (provided that it has relevance), in the other computers is 255.255.0.0, here I don't know : frankly I did not find how to locate and modify it in VISTA. Which steps are needed to connect the new computer to the nework ? (it is WAP2 protected and of course  I entered proper network name and key).
Thanks in advance
Xiang Yan

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January 18th, 2008 07:00

Please post the results of an ipconfig /all from an XP machine and the Vista machine.

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January 19th, 2008 14:00

I'd like to attach the IPCONFIG /all, but I don't know how to attach an image to the post (The insert image button asks for an URL on another server): please instruct.
Anyway I succeeded a little. I put the subnet mask to 255.255.255, I installed Windows XP-KB922120-v5-x86-ENU.exe. (the topology layer) on XP and I disabled the Norton Firewall and Intrusion detection on Vista.(Since I am accustomed to use McAfee I don't know how to set properly Norton firewall)  In this way I can access the shared folders of XP computers, get files but not write into the folders. It asks for some permission (Note that from the other XP computer there is no problem to write into the same folders).
From the two XP computers I can see only the Public folder of Vista computer but again only on reading. The other folders are not visualized even if I did my best to  make them shared (but maybe I did some mistakes or missed some steps).
Can you help me further?
Thanks

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January 20th, 2008 06:00

This should help a bit:
 
 
 
Also here:
 
 




Message Edited by jmwills on 01-20-2008 09:36 AM
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