Posting the results of ipconfig /all on both computers may help.
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"hedgert" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> After a BSOD on my Vista PC I took the opportunity to upgrade the PC to
> Vista Ultimate.
> I now have a Vista Home Premium laptop and a Vista Ultimate PC.
> Still installing updates, but having problems with network connectivity
> between the two machines.
> Both are in the same workgroup, and both have the network classified as
> private. Network discovery and file sharing are turned on on both
> machines.
> The Ultimate machine shows the laptop all the time in the Network Map,
> but sometimes does not show it connected, and when it does that ping
> fails from one to the other (even by IP address).
> It seems that sometimes running a ping somehow encourages connectivity
> to return (shown as linked on the network map and more importantly
> allowing a mapped drive between the two to function).
> Any suggestions here?
> It bothers me that without me making any settings changes sometimes I
> have network connectivity between two Vista machines and sometimes I
> don't. (Prior to the BSOD on the PC when I was using Home Premium on
> both I had no problems and the network infrastructure hasn't been
> changed - so I assume this is some setting on the Ultimate machine that
> I haven't found yet)
>
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