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| Thread ID: 106617 | 2010-01-15 23:42:00 | Networking problem. Vista can't see XP. | Colpol (444) | Press F1 |
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| 849123 | 2010-01-17 18:00:00 | I have been through the settings so many times and I know they are right I have even run the network set up wizard on all machines and yet still it refuses to play ball. So I started googling and it seems this is not a rare phenomenon it is happening to plenty of people on win7 | gary67 (56) | ||
| 849124 | 2010-01-17 18:53:00 | I've never had a prob with sharing in XP, Vista or Win7. I even managed to print from Vista and XP to Win 7 x64. DON'T use the network wizard. Its been said before its hopeless (if you're talking about XP's) Thats probably why its never worked. Do it manually | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 849125 | 2010-01-17 20:58:00 | Re-read Wainui's posts just above . In particular, uninstall those Comodos - not disable, uninstall . NO firewalls!! At the moment you don't know whether you are fighting firewalls or sharing setups/permissions . Now follow WT's instructions on sharing - they WILL work! When you have a properly configured network you can re-install firewalls, one at a time . If sharing stops you know it is the firewall . If you can't get Comodo working, heave it and use the Windows FW . PS . There is nothing wrong with Windows sharing per se, in spite of what you might see from google . Just set it up correctly . |
linw (53) | ||
| 849126 | 2010-01-18 06:30:00 | I've never had a prob with sharing in XP, Vista or Win7. I even managed to print from Vista and XP to Win 7 x64. DON'T use the network wizard. Its been said before its hopeless (if you're talking about XP's) Thats probably why its never worked. Do it manually I used the wizard as a last resort since nothing else was working and still isn't one XP machine asks for the win 7 logon and password the other XP machine refuse to connect at all and a Vista machine also asks for the password to my Win7 machine. Printings not a problem as I have a switch with built in print server |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 849127 | 2010-01-18 06:42:00 | Get teamviewer and i'll check it out. If you want | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 849128 | 2010-01-18 06:57:00 | Just fixed it tonight not sure what I have done differently but all seems to be going fine. Thanks for the offer though Speedy much appreciated | gary67 (56) | ||
| 849129 | 2010-01-19 19:16:00 | OK I am back. Have decided that I will just sort in small steps so turned on 2 machines and found that Vista can see XP and access files. XP can see Vista and can access files so that is good.:clap Small problem is that in XP The machine itself appears under my network name "Colin"and the vista machine appears under "Workgroup". How to get the Vista machine into the correct network? Cant see any option to rename or remove if that is what is needed. |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 849130 | 2010-01-19 19:20:00 | Windows key + pause to bring up system / advanced settings I think it is. Computer tab. Click on change. Then change it then reboot | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 849131 | 2010-01-19 19:28:00 | Windows key + pause to bring up system / advanced settings I think it is. Computer tab. Click on change. Then change it then reboot Where is the pause key. Anyway went into System on XP machine, through control Panel and looked at advanced. It only cheanges the computer name. Nothing about the network name/s |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 849132 | 2010-01-19 19:34:00 | Pause is on some keyboards, if yours doesnt have it, go to control panel / system. In XP you click on system / computer name / change the bottom option You go to the same tab in Win7 / Vista (computer name) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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