Network discovery

[Guest]

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.

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

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
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.

 

[AJR]

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.

 

[Guest]

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 “Privateâ€

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