Vista Desktop – XP NC10 – problems connecting to each other.

[stormy]

Hi,

I have a Vista Desktop in ‘WORKGROUP’ and my Sammy NC10 in ‘WORKGROUP’ both with static IPs via my router on the same subnet.

Vista can see my NC10 and browse the files fine, NC10 can ping Vista machine, but cannot see it in network places even though file and print sharing is enabled on Vista machine.

Any ideas? I am pulling my hair out. 🙁

[hugootto]

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I am pulling my hair out. 🙁
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Please don’t!!!

The keyword is “Link-Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD)”
Have a look at http://www.home-network-help.com/vista-network-map.html

Hugootto

[stormy]

Thanks for the reply, but my Vista machine can see my XP NC10. My NC10 can’t see my Vista machine, I can even copy files from my Vista machine to the NC10 fine. I want to be able to browse the Vista machine from the NC10

[hugootto]

Read again! It’s EXACTLY your problem!

You have to download a little software fox WinXP
This package contains the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) responder. The network map on a computer running Windows Vista shows a graphical view of the computers and devices on your network and how they are connected by using the LLTD protocol. The LLTD responder must be installed on a computer running Windows XP before it can be detected and appear on the network map. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

[stormy]

I tried to install it and it says that SP3 is already installed and its not needed. So I am still stuck, thanks anyway.

🙁

[TCMuffin]

Yes – LLTD is installed in SP3, as this was a common problem when Vista was released.

Try turning off your firewalls on both machines and see if you can see the machine then. If you can, configure the firewall of the Vista machine to allow access from your XP machine.

You may have to put Vista files in the Public folder to be able to access them from the NC10.

You may find this article interesting: How do I network my Vista and XP PCs together?

[stormy]

Right, I am getting there, but still not quite. I can now see Vista machine shares from the NC10 but when I try and click them it says “Access is denied” even though I have shared them for full access on the Vista machine?

Any ideas now?

[stormy]

Managed to fix this, for some reason Vista didn’t like the root directory of drives being shared, so once I shared the directories off root with user ‘Everyone’ then I was up and running.

So if anyone else has issues, try that. 🙂

[Parody]

Or better, just share a folder instead of everything. (Hopefully this isn’t the boot drive!)

[stormy]

Nope. Its not the boot drive.

[Parody]

Personally, I wouldn’t want random people to be able to delete or replace files from, say, the Program Files folder remotely. If someone hacks into my wireless they can delete the files from my open shares, but the machines will keep running.

ObTopic: It’s a bit moot at this point, but you can still share an entire drive under Vista; try putting “share root vista” without quotes into your favorite search engine.

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