VISTA-XP Networking

[Guest]

I have a wireless XP-Vista network. I can see the Vista from XP but can not
see the XP and the Printer connected to it from Vista.
What am I not doing corectly?

Thanks,
Hadi

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

If turn off the firewall, can you ping the XP by IP? Or this may help,

Vista: Can't find other computerPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:25 pm Post subject: Vista: Can't find other ... my Windows XP Base computer and vise versa I cannot see my Windows XP files ...
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I have a wireless XP-Vista network. I can see the Vista from XP but can not
see the XP and the Printer connected to it from Vista.
What am I not doing corectly?

Thanks,
Hadi

 

[Guest]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx

The link is file and printer sharing in Vista.

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