general network problem

[mickey]

Hi All
I am trying to setup a wireless network in my home. I have done this before
but this time I can not get anything working.
I have an xp desktop attached to a belkin wireless router. I also have a
vista laptop with in intel wireless nic.
I have setup the router and can attach to that network but niether computer
can see the other. Each can ping itself and the router but not each other.
I have turned all firewalls off (temporaily) and the results is the same. A
friend said that he thought that vista's file nad printer sharing service is
not working properly. How can I provr or disprove this theory.

Thanks
MM

[rufnredde]

For Vista and XP machines, you must installthe Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder (KB922120) on the XP machine. Search the Internet for "Vista see XP" and you will get a bunch of info.

[Don Phillipson]

"mickey" <mickmarshall@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I am trying to setup a wireless network in my home. I have done this
before
> but this time I can not get anything working.
> I have an xp desktop attached to a belkin wireless router. I also have a
> vista laptop with in intel wireless nic.
> I have setup the router and can attach to that network but niether
computer
> can see the other. Each can ping itself and the router but not each other.
> I have turned all firewalls off (temporaily) and the results is the same.
A
> friend said that he thought that vista's file nad printer sharing service
is
> not working properly. How can I provr or disprove this theory.

You need to check more systematic list of items to check
(e.g. folder sharing) and in which order.
http://www.ezlan.net/ will probably be helpful. Vista and
XP use different networking setup methods, I think, so you may need
first to select one and then make the other conform.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

[mickey]

I have followed all these steps and more but to no avail. As I said, the
connection to the network succeds but neither computer can see the other.
Mickey

"Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in message
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> "mickey" <mickmarshall@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:i2a49a$3s9$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>
>> I am trying to setup a wireless network in my home. I have done this
> before
>> but this time I can not get anything working.
>> I have an xp desktop attached to a belkin wireless router. I also have a
>> vista laptop with in intel wireless nic.
>> I have setup the router and can attach to that network but niether
> computer
>> can see the other. Each can ping itself and the router but not each
>> other.
>> I have turned all firewalls off (temporaily) and the results is the same.
> A
>> friend said that he thought that vista's file nad printer sharing service
> is
>> not working properly. How can I provr or disprove this theory.
>
> You need to check more systematic list of items to check
> (e.g. folder sharing) and in which order.
> http://www.ezlan.net/ will probably be helpful. Vista and
> XP use different networking setup methods, I think, so you may need
> first to select one and then make the other conform.
>
> --
> Don Phillipson
> Carlsbad Springs
> (Ottawa, Canada)
>
>

[rufnredde]

Did you install the link layer responder? It is the only way to see an XP PC on a Vista machine. Click on the link I provided download the software and your good to go. Here is an article on Small Net Builder that walks you through everything to check.