vista seems to disrupt my xp network

[Stuart Miller]

I have a basic home netwok which has been stable since I set it up for
win95/98. There have been a few equipment upgrades, but is now a cable
modem, d-link router, linksys wireless accesspoint, linux file/print server,
and several tower and laptop machines running xp.

I bought a new machine running vista premium. When I first connected it
wired, it killed the internet conection every time I accessed the internet.
Only solution was a power off for the router.

I installed a usb wireless card, and that 'cured' the internet problems, and
allowed the vista machine to see the xp laptops. However, I don't want to
overload the wireless system when there is a cat5 cable beside the vista
machine. The Linux server was turned off at this time. After a few
re-starts the vista machine worked ok wired, and could transfer files from
the xp laptop. The laptop could find the vista shares.

When I restarted the linux server, the vista machine could not find it, nor
could it find any of the xp machines, but it could find a vista laptop.
Network magic could find all machines, and vista could ping all the
machines.

With the linux server off again, vista can again find the xp laptop.

When the vista machine is up, transfers between the server and the xp laptop
are incredibly slow and there is a huge amount of network traffic. When the
vista machine is down, transfers are normal speed.

I can't afford to purchase a vista based server, and I can't afford to
upgrade 3 laptops and a tower just so that I can use the new vista machine
on my network.

I have read that network protocols were changed significantly in vista. Is
there a modification to vista to allow it to co-operate with my present
network?

At the moment my options seem to be

1. load linux on the new machine
2. run vista on wireless and put up with the speed loss
3. downgrade the new machine to xp
4. send the machine back & wait for the next windows

I would appreciate any help

Thanks

Stuart

 

[Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)]

It could be computer browser issue. Any errors in XP and Vista event viewer?
Or this search result may help.
Computer Browser
You may try to use browstat.exe from NT resource kit to check the
master browser status. Or stop computer browser on w2k/xp. ...
www.chicagotech.net/browser.htm


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[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Hi
There are few factors that you have to take in account.
NetMagic does not follow strict standard, so using it on a network can
through things of balance.
You added to an Ne system to an old one. It might be that your Router is not
fully compatible with Vista, and that new adjustment has to be made to the
Linux server.
I have a Network that is a Hot fudge of Win2000, few Win XP, few Vista, even
Win3.11 and Win98 on VPC, and it all works well and fast.
Part of the network is on Giga and yields between the Giga capable computers
transfer of 48MB/sec. (B=Byte) while every thing is On.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

 

[GT]

Vista disrupts all other windows programs so you have to buy Vista for all
other computers. Try formatting the HD then load Linux.

 

[Paul Montgomery]

Vista disrupts all other windows programs so you have to buy Vista for all
other computers. Try formatting the HD then load Linux.

Yup. No doubt about it. You're a moron.