XP PCs can't Talk to Vista Home Premium PC

[Guest]

I have 3 PCs on my home network, 2 wired and 1 Wireless (1) Dell Desktop with
newly upgraded Vista Home Premium and (2) an IBM Lenovo Laptop with XP Pro
and an (3) IBM XP desktop. Before

my Vista Home Premium upgrade, (using my XP home network) all files, folders
and drives were totally accessible from any of the 3 PCs. Since the upgrade
to Vista Home

Premium on the Dell Desktop, I can access all drives, files and folders from
the DellDesktop (with Vista Home Premium OS) , but I can not access the
DellDesktop (with Vista

Home Premium) from my other 2 PCs running Win XP (#2 PC with XP Pro and #3
PC with XP Home Edition). I am able to successfully ping the DellDesktop from
PCs #2 and #3

but cannot access any Drives, Folders from the Vista Home Premium
DellDesktop. Any suggestions for a resolve would be appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

 

[Keith D]

Hi

Couple of points

1] any third party firewalls??? they are causing plenty hassle with this
problem

1] try this as its free its sorted many a network problem on this group

http://www.networkmagic.com/download/

you will need to install it and run in all computers you have there

as its free for 30 days must be worth giving it a whirl

cheers for now

Keith D.

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem... I now have 3 computers on a wireless home
network. The 2 older ones still work just fine on XP - sharing files and
printers. They can 'see' my new Toshiba, but when I try to access it, I get
an error saying it's "Not accessible - network path was not found" The new
Toshiba, on the other hand, can not see them at all. The toshiba only sees
itself in the workgroup. I have tried almost every combination I can think
of to to avail. Suggestions?

Interesting: I called Toshiba help line - they tell me its a vista problem
so I have to call microsoft. I call microsoft, they tell me since it came
preinstalled in my laptop they will not help - I have to call toshiba. I
call toshiba, they then say because its a home network issue they can not
help. With my other two HP laptops, I have had no end of great service -
problem solving online, etc. What a mistake it was trying another make.
Oh, Lord of HP, I am sorry!

 

[Guest]

I was having diffficulty getting access to my Vista PC from my XP PCs. Per
the suggestions on this forum, I reviewed, downloaded and then installed the
free trial download of Network Magic located at
http://www.networkmagic.com/product/ and all my Networking Problems with
mixed Vista and XP PCs were able to be resolved and my mixed network
consisting of Vista and XP PCs all work together now and are accessible. I
then ordered the Network Magic software from Amazon for $26.95. Thanks for
the suggestions...they worked and resolved my problems.