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April 24th, 2007 14:00

Windows Vista/XP Network issue

My small office recently bought two PCs and one laptop, all with Vista (Business edition). All the other machines here run Windows XP Pro. I was able to get the laptop to see all the networked computers -- Vista and XP --without too much trouble. Establishing a connection to a printer attached to an XP machine was a little tougher, but I managed to create a port for it and it's working just fine. The PCs, however, cannot find the XP ones no matter what I do. As far as I can tell the settings on the new PCs are identical to the laptop's (Private network, discovery on, etc.) and yet they still can't find the older machines. I've gone through a variety of sources, but no luck so far. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Cameron
  • gdwrnch3

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    Posted April 24th, 2007 14:00

    Ok, try this.
    First, you need to download  this Microsoft patch and install it on your Windows XP PCs.
     
        Next, open network and sharing on your vista pc and make sure password protected sharing is turned off . 
        On the Vista PC, you need to configure both Sharing and NTFS permissions.  For sharing permissions, use the Sharing tab to add the "Everyone" group and then give the Everyone group the permission you want .  For NTFS permissions, use the Security tab to add the "Everyone" group and then give the Everyone group the permission you want. 
    The above configurations will make Windows Vista File and Printer Sharing perform similar to Windows XP Simple File Sharing.
     
    Hope this helps you out.
  • boppo

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    Posted April 24th, 2007 14:00

    workgroup names the same?
  • dcsouthpaw

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    Posted April 24th, 2007 17:00

    Thanks for both responses. The Vistas and some of the XPs are in the same workgroup. The laptop that can see the XPs can see all of them, regardless of workgroup. I had applied that patch to one XP machine previously--but only one. The laptop was fine with all the XPs with or without the patch. (I can go around and install it everywhere, but haven't so far). Tried adding an everyone group, but only wound up causing the current incarnation of Windows Explorer to crash everytime I clicked on the Sharing Tab; I used a system restore to get back to a previous setting. Please note that I did not do any of that to get the laptop to play nice with the other machines--does it need to be this much of a pain? ;)