Hi

I am having a little bit of trouble browsing my Vista PC from my XP Pro laptop on my home network.

It works the other way ( i can see the xp one from vista ) , and i have set up a map from the vista to xp ok.

The are both physicaly wired into the same router.

Both have net access ok.

The have the same subnet

I can ping both from each other by IP and name.

The XP has had the LLDT discovery microsoft patch applied.

I have opened up my public folder to sharing for everbody as co - author.

I have disabled all the firewalls etc.

but still I cant see the vista machine from xp.

I am missing summit?

Anybody had anything similar ?

This happened to me, and although well not might be the same problem for you, but my vista machine was set to public network, which makes it undiscoverable to browse. I changed it to Home, and it worked.

Thanks Shifty , forgot to say I tried that also:)

You need to turn on network discovery in vista, by default its turned off. Access the network and sharing centre, then ensure that "network discovery" and "file sharing" both have a green blob next to them, and both the vista machine and the XP machine need to be in the same workgroup. It may also be an idea to create a user account on the vista machine with the same username and password thats used on the XP one, otherwise you will always be prompted to enter them each time you connect.

You need to turn on network discovery in vista, by default its turned off. Access the network and sharing centre, then ensure that "network discovery" and "file sharing" both have a green blob next to them, and both the vista machine and the XP machine need to be in the same workgroup. It may also be an idea to create a user account on the vista machine with the same username and password thats used on the XP one, otherwise you will always be prompted to enter them each time you connect.

Yes , have done all that already. Still only works one way - vista to xp.

Have you got third party firewall software installed that is blocking the browsing of the network? I have that problem at work everynow and again.

Also have you tried accessing the machine via it's IP rather than UNC alias?

Just got back from work and that's all i can think of at the mo that's extra to stuff that's already been mentioned.

MPM

Have you got third party firewall software installed that is blocking the browsing of the network? I have that problem at work everynow and again.

Also have you tried accessing the machine via it's IP rather than UNC alias?

Just got back from work and that's all i can think of at the mo that's extra to stuff that's already been mentioned.

MPM

For the purpose I turned all firewalls off ( no 3rd party ones anyway )

cant access vista machine via ip/name either ( but can ping with both )

If you drill down the Network Neighborhood in XP, can you see your vista box listed? If so, then when you click on it, I guess it doesn't show the shared directories?

Or is it just not listed at all?

not listed at all.

Have a read through this;

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