| Hijacker |
i recently bought a laptop with fucking VISTA pre-installed, and i have my PC with XP installed
i have my printer hooked up on the XP and iam trying to access it from the Vista.
i also tried to make a shared folder on Vista and can't share with XP.
i have both Workgroup named Workgroup as per vista how too's
i tried turning off the firewall but nothing, could norton have something to do with this?
XP and Vista don't seem to like each other.
does any one have a solution to this?? |
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| jarago |
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Originally posted by Hijacker
i recently bought a laptop with fucking VISTA pre-installed, and i have my PC with XP installed
i have my printer hooked up on the XP and iam trying to access it from the Vista.
i also tried to make a shared folder on Vista and can't share with XP.
i have both Workgroup named Workgroup as per vista how too's
i tried turning off the firewall but nothing, could norton have something to do with this?
XP and Vista don't seem to like each other.
does any one have a solution to this??
go on either system and type \\192.168.0.1 or whatever your ip address on the opposite system. if that brings it up then your pcs are networked for starters... |
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| Hijacker |
| iam aware that iam networked |
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| AudiInProgress |
Vista's sharing can be pretty gay... If you're trying to share files/folders from your Vista box, there are several ways to go about it, I would suggest ensuring your sharing permissions are set for "EVERYONE" will full access. I run Vista on my media center/file server, and I have like 5 hdd's shared out of the root, and gave "everyone" full access. That way I can log in from any XP machine in the house and move shit around, or download stuff on the XP boxes and transfer it to the file server for storage, whatever.
And if you're trying to access files/folders/printers on the XP shares from the Vista box, there really shouldn't be anything special there... Right-click enable sharing, done. |
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| Hijacker |
| also every time i try to set the permission to share and hit OK, it always stops responding for some reason, like if i click the sharing tab it freezes and stops responding |
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| golfer1 |
| Its obvious you dont know jack about pc's. Just spend your money and hire someone to setup a simple home network. |
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| Hijacker |
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Originally posted by golfer1
Its obvious you don't know jack about pc's. Just spend your money and hire someone to setup a simple home network.
yeah ok...
i will admit i know jack shit about VISTA
if you know VISTA any better then me, $50 to you and make my network work |
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| AudiInProgress |
| "Not Responding" explorer windows are usually resultant of corruption... However, seeing as this notebook came pre-loaded with Vista, it should work... Should being the operative word. Have you tried (just for shits and giggles) creating a new user profile on the notebook and working from within that? |
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| Hijacker |
| no luck with a new profile, iam ready to give up and format and put XP on |
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| AudiInProgress |
| Yeah... If it's going to be your daily use PC, go back to XP, Vista is great for surfing the web or watching videos and shit... But for mission critical PC's like office work or gaming... XP is still king. |
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| Hijacker |
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Originally posted by AudiInProgress
Yeah... If it's going to be your daily use PC, go back to XP, Vista is great for surfing the web or watching videos and shit... But for mission critical PC's like office work or gaming... XP is still king.
i very much agree |
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| STiPWR |
So much hate towards a new OS......
Vista is fine if people take the time to learn it. People get mad because it doesnt work like XP.... well , its not XP, its a completely new operating system.
Vista doesnt even have a solid service pack release yet. (yes I know about the beta). XP was just as bad before SP2.
I cant wait till they start releasing PC's with Linux pre-loaded on it... rofl. |
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| STiPWR |
On a serious note........
Go to control panel, network/sharing center...
Click "customize" Make your connection Private.
Turn on:
Network discovery
File sharing
Public folder sharing
Printer sharing
Media sharing.
If you have Ultimate or Business, go start, run, type "secpol.msc"
Click local policies, security options, and play around with the Network access/security options if the above steps dont work. |
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| STiPWR |
Also, if your internet is slow on vista.......
Turn off TCP windows scaling...
Run Command prompt as adminitrator...(start, accessories, cmdprmpt, right click, run as admin) . Cut and paste this command.
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
Sped up my download by almost 4000kb/s |
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| Hijacker |
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Originally posted by STiPWR
On a serious note........
Go to control panel, network/sharing center...
Click "customize" Make your connection Private.
Turn on:
Network discovery
File sharing
Public folder sharing
Printer sharing
Media sharing.
i have done all that already, i thought tha would work from the day i got the laptop w/ vista |
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| STiPWR |
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Originally posted by Hijacker
i have done all that already, i thought tha would work from the day i got the laptop w/ vista
Well, my vista machine sees my xp and linux box with no issues.
I dont know what else to recommend without seeing your comp. |
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| AudiInProgress |
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Originally posted by STiPWR
Well, my vista machine sees my xp and linux box with no issues.
I dont know what else to recommend without seeing your comp.
I know right. My Vista file server/media PC see's all the XP comps in my house just fine. |
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| Hijacker |
| iam missing something, but i don't know what |
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| midnite |
another thing to try is set the same user name and password on both computers, so it won't ask you for authentication. (since you aren't in an active directory setup).
though, sounds like it isn't even getting that far. do you have any internet antivirus/security/firewall software on the computer? |
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| midnite |
| Not sure if this was mentioned, but on the XP machine which you are trying to share from, go to Start->run-> type 'gpedit.msc', go to local policy, comp conf, windows settings, security settings, local policies, security options, and change 'Network Access: sharing and security model for local accounts' to 'Guest Only' instead of 'Classic'. |
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