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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:12 am Post subject: Networking Vista and XP - help needed |
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| I have Vista 64 Ultimate on my PC and my laptop is running WINXP Home edition. I can't figure out how to network them together so I can share files and printers etc. I know how to do it with 2 XP machines, but on Vista it's not clear how to do it. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:38 am Post subject: Re: Networking Vista and XP - help needed |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
| I have Vista 64 Ultimate on my PC and my laptop is running WINXP Home edition. I can't figure out how to network them together so I can share files and printers etc. I know how to do it with 2 XP machines, but on Vista it's not clear how to do it. |
Do you have a hub, router or just 2 NICs in your desktop?
I assume you want to share the internet and resources and not just swap files between them (as in disconnect your internet and use a cross cable). |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:47 am Post subject: |
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I have a wireless router. The laptop is wireless and the PC is connected to the router with an ethernet cable. I have 2 network cards in the PC, as well as a crossover cable but that would kind of defeat the object of the wireless router.
The network is set up when I boot the PC into XP, but I'm having problems with Vista. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:44 am Post subject: |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
I have a wireless router. The laptop is wireless and the PC is connected to the router with an ethernet cable. I have 2 network cards in the PC, as well as a crossover cable but that would kind of defeat the object of the wireless router.
The network is set up when I boot the PC into XP, but I'm having problems with Vista. |
Just so I understand....
Your internet is connected to your router.
Your desktop is plugged into the router.
The laptop is networked as a wireless through the router.
a) The wireless connection to your laptop works when your desktop is booted to XP but the wireless does NOT work when you boot up in vista?
b) The wireless connection works all the time but you cannot share files between the laptop and desktop. Both computers have internet.
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| The answer is B. I can share files between both machines using XP to XP, but not XP to Vista. |
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ttompatz
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cj1976
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks chief, that looks pretty useful. Hopefully that'll clear it up for me. |
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OneWayTraffic
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:48 am Post subject: |
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Try an IP ping. command line: ping <ip address>
That will tell you if the computers can find each other. If the ping works, then it's probably a Workgroup issue. If not, then it's got to be something deeper. |
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Khenan
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| Just a heads up - I had a very similar setup recently, and found that Vista copies files to and from XP *incredibly slowly*. I never found a way to fix it, and others have had the same problem. I don't know if there's a fix yet, but if you encounter this, XP will copy files to and from Vista at the speeds that you are used to. It's obnoxious, but I wasn't terribly surprised. Really though - copying files is pretty much the most basic thing a computer can do. What is Vista's problem, anyway? |
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