Other computers can "see" Vista, but not vice-versa?

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ohaya

Hi,

I have a new machine running Vista 5308. It is configured on a
workgroup named "MISNET". All machines in my home are on this
workgroup, and are homed on a NAT router.

I've shared the C: drive on the Vista PC, and I can get to that C: drive
from other machines on my home network (Win2K and WinXP).

However, from the Vista PC itself, I cannot "see" any of the other
machines in the workgroup. I've tried Network Map, Network List, etc.,
but they show nothing.

Network map just shows:

Vista PC -> gateway (my router) -> Internet

No other machines appear.

What else do I have to do so that I can browse my home network, similar
to Network Neighborhood?

Thanks,
Jim
 
O

ohaya

ohaya said:
Hi,

I have a new machine running Vista 5308. It is configured on a
workgroup named "MISNET". All machines in my home are on this
workgroup, and are homed on a NAT router.

I've shared the C: drive on the Vista PC, and I can get to that C: drive
from other machines on my home network (Win2K and WinXP).

However, from the Vista PC itself, I cannot "see" any of the other
machines in the workgroup. I've tried Network Map, Network List, etc.,
but they show nothing.

Network map just shows:

Vista PC -> gateway (my router) -> Internet

No other machines appear.

What else do I have to do so that I can browse my home network, similar
to Network Neighborhood?

Thanks,
Jim
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Hi,

P.S. If I do "net view \\anothercomputer", I am getting an "Error 5",
"Access Denied"...

Jim
 
P

Pierre Szwarc

Have you checked that the non-Vista computers' firewalls allow the proper
ports (UDP/TCP 135-139) in?
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"ohaya" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de (e-mail address removed)...
| Hi,
|
| I have a new machine running Vista 5308. It is configured on a
| workgroup named "MISNET". All machines in my home are on this
| workgroup, and are homed on a NAT router.
|
| I've shared the C: drive on the Vista PC, and I can get to that C: drive
| from other machines on my home network (Win2K and WinXP).
|
| However, from the Vista PC itself, I cannot "see" any of the other
| machines in the workgroup. I've tried Network Map, Network List, etc.,
| but they show nothing.
|
| Network map just shows:
|
| Vista PC -> gateway (my router) -> Internet
|
| No other machines appear.
|
| What else do I have to do so that I can browse my home network, similar
| to Network Neighborhood?
|
| Thanks,
| Jim
 
Z

Zack Whittaker

I've found, that on ordinary workgroups that the \\computername works fine
to access other computers, however once you put a Windows Server 2003 in
there, for the first few restarts of the server you can only access
computers via IP address...

Very perculiar... this happened on the R2 beta as well :blush:(

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of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

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ohaya

Hi,

Most of the "other" PCs in my workgroup are Win2K or Win2K server, with
no firewalls running on them. I can browse (see) the various PCs among
those.

To be clear: On the new Vista PC, I can do a "map drive" to a drive
that I've shared out on another non-Vista PC. And, the Vista PC shows
up in Network Neighborhood or My Network Places on my other PCs.

What I asking about is why I can't "see" or "browse" the other non-Vista
PCs FROM the Vista PC. For example, when I go to Network Map or Network
List, shouldn't those show all of the PCs on my workgroup, ala "Entire
Network"?

Jim
 
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Pierre Szwarc

IIRC, Win2k will allow "browsing" in only if the login (name and pw) you're
using on the client is defined as an account on the Win2k "server" machine,
or the "Guest" account is enabled. The same goes with XP, in fact, unless
you've enabled "simple file sharing", which is unavailable on Win2k.
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Paris, France
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"ohaya" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de (e-mail address removed)...
| Hi,
|
| Most of the "other" PCs in my workgroup are Win2K or Win2K server, with
| no firewalls running on them. I can browse (see) the various PCs among
| those.
|
| To be clear: On the new Vista PC, I can do a "map drive" to a drive
| that I've shared out on another non-Vista PC. And, the Vista PC shows
| up in Network Neighborhood or My Network Places on my other PCs.
|
| What I asking about is why I can't "see" or "browse" the other non-Vista
| PCs FROM the Vista PC. For example, when I go to Network Map or Network
| List, shouldn't those show all of the PCs on my workgroup, ala "Entire
| Network"?
 
A

Andre Da Costa [Extended64]

"What I asking about is why I can't "see" or "browse" the other non-Vista
PCs FROM the Vista PC."

Thats because that aspect of networking is broken in Vista, the browser
service is still being worked on. I am able to browse my XP machine though
from the run command using \\mshome\normans-mob and it will take me directly
the contents of the shared resources on that XP computer.
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P

Patrick Elliott [MVP]

It's because the Windows Server 2003 machine becomes the browser master for
that workgroup (or domain) - it has a higher number when browser elections
are held -- until it updates it's browse list you're going to see that sort
of behavior.

I usually have all my client computers dynamically update DNS with the
server and let DNS handle that resolution

Patrick

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B

Ben Macrow

I think thats the only way of doing it at the moment, thorugh the manual
browsing. Remember networking is one of the sections haveing extensive stuff
done to it so it will be a work in progress for quite a while i woudl have
thought.
 
B

Ben Macrow

Just tried that and i can confirm that typing \\computername into the start
menu search box and hitting enter will indeed bring up the explorer window
for that computer!

Hoorah! I was having to use a trial version of xplorer2 pro till now!
 
P

Prashanth Prahalad [MSFT]

There were a bunch of issues which were fixed in browser post 5308. Please
upgrade to the latest version and report if you are having these issues with
a later build.

Thanks ~
Prashanth
 

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