[dj_alkaline]

Systems:

Vista
Compaq Presario C500
Celeron(R) M (1.6ghz)
520 MB Ram
Vista Ultimate
Using onboard Broadcom 802.1 b/g

XP
Compaq Presario
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (2.4ghz)
960 MB Ram
XP Media Center Edition (SP2)
Onboard NVIDIA nForce Network Card

Network Layout
ISP: Comcast(formerly Time Warner)
Router/AccessPoint/Switch: WRT54GX2
XP machine is wired into router
Vista is wireless on router.

The rundown of what ive done so far:
Identical accounts on both machines
File and printer sharing on both
Installed The Link-layer Topology Discovery Responder (on the xp machine)
Same Subnet and IP's are close to each other
Netbios Over TCP/IP
Shared a folder from each machine.
I can ping each other by name and address from both machines

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From the xp desktop I can see the vista shares, I can manipulate files(put and get)

From the vista machine I can see the xp box is there on the network map but I can't see the shares.

Tried even start-run-\\xpmachine\sharename
nothing
Map network drive- "\\xpmachine\sharename"
nothing

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I've went through forums on my router, I contacted linksys, I read the MSKB entries about the file sharing and discovery, and many more... I still cant get the vista "lame-top" to access my share on my pc. HELP!


See I can see the thing but no shares

[rainforest123]

Is Vista Ultimate 32 bit or 64 bit?

Which firewall is on the XP computer?

Which firewall is on the Vista computer?

On the XP computer, create a folder, C:\test_share
Share it.

In C:\test_share, create a text file, hello.txt

Go to the Vista computer. Can you see it?

Do you have a password for the user account on the XP & the Vista computers?

If possible, disable your Wi Fi card & connect the Vista computer via ethernet.

RF123

[dj_alkaline]

firewalls are all disabled...
Vista Ultimate is 32 bit version

Now i had a share existing with files in it but i did as you said to test it anyway... c:\test_share folder is shared as \\compname\testshare and has hello.txt in it.... still no dice!

I do have identical login/passwords on both machines...

[dj_alkaline]

I saw someone mention using TCP/IP v6 to handle this... any ideas?

[rainforest123]

Which firewall is on the XP computer?

Which firewall is on the Vista computer?

After switching the Wi Fi computer to ethernet, boot to safe mode with networking.

Can you see the share?

RF123

[dj_alkaline]

I'll cable it into the router tonight and post my results.

[rainforest123]

dj_a:
Very good.

Which firewall is on the XP computer?

Which firewall is on the Vista computer?

After switching the Wi Fi computer to ethernet, boot to safe mode with networking.

Can you see the share?

RF123