the ease of networking

[Carlen L. Williams]

I've been using Vista now for 9 months and I'm loving it. I find the ease
to connect multi-computers through it. Not just computers are easy to
connect but printers. This was proved when I was in Iraq and we had one
printer and 5 Vista computer printing to it over our network, and we did
this in less than 10 mins.. Where as when I got home and tried to do the
same thing to a XP computer it took forever.

 

[+Bob+]

I've been using Vista now for 9 months and I'm loving it. I find the ease
to connect multi-computers through it. Not just computers are easy to
connect but printers. This was proved when I was in Iraq and we had one
printer and 5 Vista computer printing to it over our network, and we did
this in less than 10 mins.. Where as when I got home and tried to do the
same thing to a XP computer it took forever.

I think you're the only one finding Vista networking easier than
XP.... particularly when multiple machines are involved. Maybe if
everything is Vista peer to peer it's easier, but mixed networks are
more troublesome with Vista involved.

 

[DevilsPGD]

In message <[email protected]> +Bob+

I think you're the only one finding Vista networking easier than
XP.... particularly when multiple machines are involved. Maybe if
everything is Vista peer to peer it's easier, but mixed networks are
more troublesome with Vista involved.

I've never attempted to network Vista machines to anything outside an
active directory domain environment, but with AD, it's an absolute
dream.

It literally just works.

 

[+Bob+]

I've never attempted to network Vista machines to anything outside an
active directory domain environment, but with AD, it's an absolute
dream.

It literally just works.

Well, perhaps that was MS's emphasis and that's why it works.

If you watch this group or others for a while, you will see that there
are many, many people having problems with Vista to XP, Vista to
non-AD servers, etc. SOHO is particularly troublesome. It has some
real oddities with user/pass (non AD) security to servers.

Just setting up a simple share to work is troublesome for most users.
Then you run into "zone" problems trying to access files or programs
on shares. Once you get those down, you run into more detailed
problems.

On top of that, Vista had problems with lots of routers that worked
fine under XP. It drops wireless connections due to overly aggressive
power management. It has problems with changing wireless networks. It
has problems changing from wired to wireless. It hangs the OS when
network connections drop from the other side.

That's a short run down on the problems I've seen.

 

[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Hi
It also depends where a user is coming from.
Many new users that did not use, or configured extensively WinXP, do find
Vista easy to get use to.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)