-Have you checked that WIN firewall has taken exception to blocking "file and
printer sharing."
-Is your Vista machine is a pre-loaded one with McAfee, if so disable
McAfee's firewall.
-Above cured my ills for Vista/XP machiones, but I still cannot work the
2000-pro machines back into the network. If you find a solution, let me know.
-Installing LLTD protocol update on your XP machines will allow them to be
mapped on vista machine. (This does not solve any sharing/access isssues, its
just nice)

"Not Super User" wrote:

> I am running RC1 on a duel boot system. I can see all of the other computers
> on my network and have set up the printers off of those computers. But when
> it comes to them being able to see me it is not happening. I can ping both
> ways (with one care fire wall off) but the Win 2000 and Xp boxes cannot even
> see me on the network. I have turned on evey share I could find but I still
> cannot been seen.
>
> As a further problem I cannot get into my Network Drive from this computer
> while I am in Vista.
>
> Any ideas I am about out of pateince with this Windows Vista thing?
>
> Thanks
>

Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"hydro1956" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:C82C955A-B869-4F4C-B695-(E-Mail Removed)...
-Have you checked that WIN firewall has taken exception to blocking "file and
printer sharing."
-Is your Vista machine is a pre-loaded one with McAfee, if so disable
McAfee's firewall.
-Above cured my ills for Vista/XP machiones, but I still cannot work the
2000-pro machines back into the network. If you find a solution, let me know.
-Installing LLTD protocol update on your XP machines will allow them to be
mapped on vista machine. (This does not solve any sharing/access isssues, its
just nice)

"Not Super User" wrote:

> I am running RC1 on a duel boot system. I can see all of the other computers
> on my network and have set up the printers off of those computers. But when
> it comes to them being able to see me it is not happening. I can ping both
> ways (with one care fire wall off) but the Win 2000 and Xp boxes cannot even
> see me on the network. I have turned on evey share I could find but I still
> cannot been seen.
>
> As a further problem I cannot get into my Network Drive from this computer
> while I am in Vista.
>
> Any ideas I am about out of pateince with this Windows Vista thing?
>
> Thanks
>

I have gone through Win Firewall and gone so far as to tunr it right off. No
other firewalls installed. I managed to find a place to change the domian
name but I stillcould not log into my network drive. I can log into all the
other computers on my network. All this is pretty well useless unless I can
accees this drive.

Thanks for the tip on the LLTD protocol update I'll get that and try it. For
the most part I think this vista O/S is pretty much a wast of time and I am
really glad that I put it on a duel boot system.

Here is another thing I tried installing the software that comes with the
Network drive and came up with a bunch of errors and had to give up!

My next move is to try a clean install of Vista Business into that partition
and see what happens. I doubt that it will make any difference.

My last rant is that contacting Microsoft about this is about that same as
yelling a the moon - No use! Use thge ignore it theory if you ignore the
problem long enough then it will go away!


"hydro1956" wrote:

> -Have you checked that WIN firewall has taken exception to blocking "file and
> printer sharing."
> -Is your Vista machine is a pre-loaded one with McAfee, if so disable
> McAfee's firewall.
> -Above cured my ills for Vista/XP machiones, but I still cannot work the
> 2000-pro machines back into the network. If you find a solution, let me know.
> -Installing LLTD protocol update on your XP machines will allow them to be
> mapped on vista machine. (This does not solve any sharing/access isssues, its
> just nice)
>
> "Not Super User" wrote:
>
> > I am running RC1 on a duel boot system. I can see all of the other computers
> > on my network and have set up the printers off of those computers. But when
> > it comes to them being able to see me it is not happening. I can ping both
> > ways (with one care fire wall off) but the Win 2000 and Xp boxes cannot even
> > see me on the network. I have turned on evey share I could find but I still
> > cannot been seen.
> >
> > As a further problem I cannot get into my Network Drive from this computer
> > while I am in Vista.
> >
> > Any ideas I am about out of pateince with this Windows Vista thing?
> >
> > Thanks
> >