Adding a new Vista PC to my network

[Guest]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie in networking, but had been able to hook up my 2 XP PCs at home
about 5 years ago and been happy ever since. I just purchased a new Vista PC.
I removed one of the old XP PCs from the network and hooked up the new Vista
PC in its place. The network stopped working. I can ping the other XP PC from
the Vista one, but not vice versa.

I have renamed the Workgroup to "home" on the Vista PC to match the old
network name, and Internet and email are working fine. I have activated file
sharing too.

Any suggestions?

 

[Chuck]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie in networking, but had been able to hook up my 2 XP PCs at home
about 5 years ago and been happy ever since. I just purchased a new Vista PC.
I removed one of the old XP PCs from the network and hooked up the new Vista
PC in its place. The network stopped working. I can ping the other XP PC from
the Vista one, but not vice versa.

I have renamed the Workgroup to "home" on the Vista PC to match the old
network name, and Internet and email are working fine. I have activated file
sharing too.

Any suggestions?

Please explain "cannot ping". Do you get "unknown host", or packets dropped?
Both are probably a firewall problem, but a NetBT setting problem is a
possibility. NetBT has to be consistent.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html

If no help yet, post logs from "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all", from each
computer, so we can diagnose the problem. Read this article, and linked
articles, and follow instructions precisely (download browstat!):
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp

 

[Kerry Brown]

What firewall is on the Vista computer?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the answers. I have followed somebody else's advice in another
thread and installed Network Magic. It is really magic. I suggested to all
who are having networking issues. Mine are resolved.