Network discovery

I'm new to Vista and cannot work around this problem:
We have a normal network containing 6 Windows XP pc's. The switch also
allows wireless connections and we have one Windows Vista Business laptop
attempting to connect to the other network.

The wireless connection functions and I can copy between the network and the
laptop. However I have to use the pcs' IP's instead of their names when I
search for them, explore them or map their drives. I cannot find them, affect
them, using their names.
Using a LAN cable to connect the laptop to the network does not seem to make
a difference.

I need to correct this problem in order to get Pastel to use the mapped
drives.
Please advise.

Sounds like name resolution issue. Have you enabled the NetBIOS over TCP/IP? Or this link may help,

Vista Name Resolution IssuesPost Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:52 am Post subject: Vista Can't join domain because single-label ... "The domain name local might be a NetBIOS domain name. ...
http://www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistanameissues.htm


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
"Johan Croukamp" <Johan Croukamp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:92C09B59-E39F-4C67-9B21-97D4C086B665@microsoft.com...
I'm new to Vista and cannot work around this problem:
We have a normal network containing 6 Windows XP pc's. The switch also
allows wireless connections and we have one Windows Vista Business laptop
attempting to connect to the other network.

The wireless connection functions and I can copy between the network and the
laptop. However I have to use the pcs' IP's instead of their names when I
search for them, explore them or map their drives. I cannot find them, affect
them, using their names.
Using a LAN cable to connect the laptop to the network does not seem to make
a difference.

I need to correct this problem in order to get Pastel to use the mapped
drives.
Please advise.

Johan - you mention (post subject) "Network Discovery" - Vista uses Link
Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) to "discover and map" network computers. XP
does not hhave LLTD.

Check: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120 which provides info on
downloading LLTD to have XP appear on network maps in Vista.


"Johan Croukamp" <Johan Croukamp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:92C09B59-E39F-4C67-9B21-97D4C086B665@microsoft.com...
> I'm new to Vista and cannot work around this problem:
> We have a normal network containing 6 Windows XP pc's. The switch also
> allows wireless connections and we have one Windows Vista Business laptop
> attempting to connect to the other network.
>
> The wireless connection functions and I can copy between the network and
> the
> laptop. However I have to use the pcs' IP's instead of their names when I
> search for them, explore them or map their drives. I cannot find them,
> affect
> them, using their names.
> Using a LAN cable to connect the laptop to the network does not seem to
> make
> a difference.
>
> I need to correct this problem in order to get Pastel to use the mapped
> drives.
> Please advise.

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


"Johan Croukamp" wrote:

> I'm new to Vista and cannot work around this problem:
> We have a normal network containing 6 Windows XP pc's. The switch also
> allows wireless connections and we have one Windows Vista Business laptop
> attempting to connect to the other network.
>
> The wireless connection functions and I can copy between the network and the
> laptop. However I have to use the pcs' IP's instead of their names when I
> search for them, explore them or map their drives. I cannot find them, affect
> them, using their names.
> Using a LAN cable to connect the laptop to the network does not seem to make
> a difference.
>
> I need to correct this problem in order to get Pastel to use the mapped
> drives.
> Please advise.