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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 24th Feb 2008 01:26 Edited at: 24th Feb 2008 01:53
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*sigh*

I've been at this for a few hours now, and no luck. Here's the shakedown:

I have a residential gateway/wireless router
2 Desktop Computers With XP, 1 Wireless and 1 Wired
1 Wireless Laptop with Vista

So far I can get the Wireless Vista Laptop to see the 1 Wired XP Computer (purely by accident), but I can't get the Wireless Vista Laptop to see the Wireless XP Desktop computer.

I've done the network setup thing dozens of times on both computers and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong still.

Anyone experienced with Home Networking? All I want to do is share files and use a printer connected to the wireless xp desktop computer between the rest of the computers.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, all the computers have unique names and all belong to the same workgroup... but still, no beans.

EDIT EDIT: And I can ping every computer as well...

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SageTech
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Posted: 24th Feb 2008 16:43
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Its a known problem, and I had to deal with it a while back. Installing this update on your xp machines should solve the problem.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4F01A31D-EE46-481E-BA11-37F485FA34EA&displaylang=en

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 24th Feb 2008 19:37
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Unfortunately I've already tried that... and it still doesn't fix it. I can ping both machines, but I can't get the wireless XP and the wireless Vista to see each other on the network. Even in Ad Hoc mode they don't see each other YET it says they are connected... I can't map a drive or anything.

Plan B?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 25th Feb 2008 00:19
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I have never, ever got the Network Setup Wizard to do... well, anything to be honest. It's useless and is more likely to break your network by changing settings seemingly at random in my opinion.


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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 25th Feb 2008 00:56
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Yeah, it's done nothing for me. I'm kind irked that two MS OS's can't talk to each other. It's kind of dumb IMO.

I wonder if manually assigning IP's will help?

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Posted: 25th Feb 2008 01:38 Edited at: 25th Feb 2008 01:39
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The DNS info may be wrong.
I remember setting up the network at home required manually changing the DNS info of one computer so it could connect to the other.
I can't remember how I did it, but that was what fixed it

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Note that this was on an Ubuntu and XP network, but I'm sure the same thing applies - each OS is setting different default DNS info, resulting in the clash of not being able to pick eachother out from their IPs.
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Posted: 25th Feb 2008 01:39 Edited at: 25th Feb 2008 01:40
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Are they part of the same Workgroup?
(Edit) Just reread you're post.


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Posted: 25th Feb 2008 02:22
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First thing to check is that firewalls are all off. You can ping each other so your IP addresses seem okay and your subnet mask allows them to talk to each other, but firewalls can still block netbios communication.
Not sure what you have done to test it out but you should try opening up Windows Explorer and typing '\\computername\' in the address bar, where computername is the name of a computer you cannot talk to. This way you are directly accessing the machine and not trying to browse to it (just in case the 'browser master' settings are confusing things). Try this first and let us know how it goes.


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Posted: 25th Feb 2008 02:26
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What make of router are you using?
Ages ago we used to have a D-Link and I could not set up file transfer/printer sharing or even Xbox live. Spent hours faffing about with the damn thing.

I then got one of the new Netgear routers, everything worked fine with no hassle what so ever. Strange...

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