Vista & XP Sharing

G

Guest

I have a home network with a LINKSYS router.

I have two machines directly connected to the router: one is running XP and
one is running Vista.

Other machines in the house use wireless.

All the machines are in the same workgroup.

I can access XP machines from Vista but I can't access Vista resources from
XP machines.

This is particularly bad since I have my printer installed on Vista-- it
used to be on XP and everything was fine.

The printer is shared.

What else is needed?
 
T

TomLives2000

What version of vista? Does the vista machine have password required for
printer sharing?
 
G

Guest

How are you able to see xp machine from vista? Can you explain the steps? I
can see vista machine from xp.
 
G

Guest

I am running Vista Home Premium.

There is no password requirement on the machine for printer sharing.
 
G

Guest

I followed all the directions specified for networking. I think the key one
was changing the XP workgroup to match Vista's needs.

Hope this helps!
 

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