Networking problems between vista & xp

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922120

 

 

It sounds like you have a third party firewall running on the Vista machine that has not been properly configured to allow local network access.  This could be Norton, McAfee, Zone Alarm etc.  (i'm not sure which of these is currently shipping with Dell computers).

 

Steve

how would i check to see if i have one. like i said i have avast on the vista machine and on the xp home machine. I've tried uninstalling Avast on the vista machine yesterday. No go.

 

 

I don't think Avast which is antivirus software has a firewall.  Did your Vista machine come with something like Norton Internet Security (which has a firewall), McAfee Secuity Suite (which has a firewall), or some other security suite that has a firewall component?  Most new Dell computers do.

 

Steve 

So installed that LLTD update file on the XP Pro machine, restarted and nothing. I thought that might of been it.

 

Any more ideas?

Man this is getting to be a pain. I turned off windows firewall on the vista machine and rebooted. I did the same on the xp pro machine and rebooted. Just like before i am able to view the xp pro from Vista machine but can't view vista machine from the xp machine

I appreciate the ideas keep them coming.

 

i'm going to keep looking myself

Vista has a much more sophisticated firewall than XP.  I know very little about it since I don't have Vista.  You might explore the options in the Vista firewall.

 

Steve

It did come with Norton. It also came with XP media center. I upgraded to vista ultimate back last spring. It wasn't through the dell vista upgrade program. I actually had a MSDN subscription at the time. When i upgraded i uninstalled norton because i knew i wasn't going to use it and Microsoft reccommended uninstalling it before i upgraded to vista.

 

So i don't see anthything in add/remove that says norton/symantec. I will say this, it worked before. My wife's notebook (XP home) has been able to view my files before. I just don't know when this stopped working. It's been awhile though, i'd say 2-3 months.

 

Anyway keep it coming with the suggestions

Thanks

 

 

Alright i'm in safe mode w/ net. right now. Still the same issue just looks bigger. haha

 

Should i do anything else in safe mode before i reboot?

 

No, you can get out of safe mode.   I'm afraid I can't be of much more help, having no experience, nor wanting any, with Vista.   See if the results of a Google search help you:

 

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=DIUS,DIUS:2006-22,DIUS:en&q=file+sharing+vista+and+xp

 

Steve

To further troubleshoot the problem, boot the Vista machine to Safe Mode with Network Support.  See if you can access then.  Report back what you find.

 

Steve