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Old 22-08-2007, 01:44 AM   #1
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I have a wireless XP-Vista network. I can see the Vista from XP but can not
see the XP and the Printer connected to it from Vista.
What am I not doing corectly?

Thanks,
Hadi
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Old 22-08-2007, 04:07 PM   #2
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If turn off the firewall, can you ping the XP by IP? Or this may help,

Vista: Can't find other computerPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:25 pm Post subject: Vista: Can't find other ... my Windows XP Base computer and vise versa I cannot see my Windows XP files ...
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"Hadi" <Hadi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B7DE545A-2F25-470F-8228-565E75F85E8F@microsoft.com...
I have a wireless XP-Vista network. I can see the Vista from XP but can not
see the XP and the Printer connected to it from Vista.
What am I not doing corectly?

Thanks,
Hadi
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Old 23-08-2007, 06:50 AM   #3
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/ne...e/vista_fp.mspx

The link is file and printer sharing in Vista.

Have you tried the following:
In Vista Networking and Sharing:
1 Network Discovery ON
2 File Sharing ON
3 Public Folder Sharing ON
4 Password Protected OFF
5 and the Network should be set to “Private”

And have you made sure that the workgroup names are the same on XP and Vista.
By default XP is MSHOME and Vista is WORKGROUP; they should be the same.
Also "Shared Docs" in XP is called "Public Folder" in Vista


"Hadi" wrote:

> I have a wireless XP-Vista network. I can see the Vista from XP but can not
> see the XP and the Printer connected to it from Vista.
> What am I not doing corectly?
>
> Thanks,
> Hadi

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