Vista xp small network

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Thread starter kabal02 Start date May 29, Status This thread has been Locked and is not open to further replies. Date: 16 December Date: 13 October Date: 15 August Date: 30 June Date: 31 March Date: 13 March Date: 21 February Date: 07 February Date: 15 January Date: 10 January Date: 03 January Date: 24 December Date: 11 December Date: 19 November Date: 13 November INF file: netrtwlanu-coinstall.

Date: 16 October Date: 07 October Date: 26 July Date: 14 June Date: 07 May Date: 25 March Driver Fusion The best solution to update, backup, clean, and monitor the drivers and devices of your PC. Automatically update drivers and create backups. But you can teach them to get along. When you combine Windows XP and Windows Vista PCs on the same peer-to-peer network, such as you might have at home or a small office, you may run into all kinds of problems.

They won't show up properly on the network map, if they even show up at all. The first problem is that the default name for your workgroup on the network has been changed from Windows XP to Windows Vista. The fix for this problem is easy; you can change the name of the workgroup on Windows XP to match the name of your Windows Vista network.

The screen shown nearby appears. In the Workgroup box, type in the name of your Windows Vista network name. If you're leaving it as the default used in Windows Vista, type in Workgroup. If you're not using the Windows Vista default, change it to whatever name you've given your Windows Vista network and click OK.

After you click OK, you'll see the confirmation dialog shown in the figure below. Click OK again, then restart your PC. You can, instead, give your Windows XP and Windows Vista machines both new workgroup names, as long as they match. To change the name of your workgroup in Windows Vista, right-click Computer and select Properties.

I played with it last night and made some progress, but first my setup. Last night while tinkering I found that both computers were not members of the same workgroup, so I changed this. Now both computers can at least see each other and everything they have shared a few folders and a printer on the XP PC. My Vista PC can access all the shared files and it can see the printer, but when I setup the printer and test it, nothing prints.

Since I have never seen Vista, I can't be of much help. The combination of a new version of Windows and Norton always has a potential to cause problems. All I can suggest is that you look at the following Microsoft Document on File and Printer Sharing and see if there is something in there that helps. This looks like great stuff, I'll definitly try some of this when I get home from work. XP Classic File Sharing. To do this, password protected sharing needs to be off and both sharing permissions and NTFS security permissions need to be set.

Once the patch is installed the XP computers will appear in your Vista network map. Then, use Windows Explorer and navigate to each folder or drive you want to share. Open the Properties of the share and click the Sharing tab. Enable sharing and click the Advanced button and then the Permissions button in the Advanced Sharing dialog.