Hi guys, I'm currently trying to network a windows xp pro desktop computer with a windows vista 64 bit computer through a D-link 614 router. The problem I'm having is that though I can see the XP computer through "View Full Map" on Windows Vista, I can't click on the computer and can't see it on the normal network list, therefore can't access anything or even see anything at all. For windows xp, under the workgroup I don't even see the windows xp computer, I see nothing but an empty workgroup. I have tried making the workgroup name the same for both computers, I have installed LLTD discovery tool, I have turned on file and printer sharing for both computers, I have a shared folder on both computers, I have tried turning off the firewall, I've tried mapping out a network drive to the xp computers from vista, and nothing works so far. I've even tried turning off auto-protect and other protections on Norton anti-virus, none of it works. Anyone have a clue what's going on here? I have a feeling the problem is with the XP computer, since I'm suppose to at least see its own computer name under the workgroup, but I see nothing. What am I doing wrong?

Are they both getting IP addresses? Run ipconfig /all if you haven't checked. Can you ping each of them from the other? Once you have the IP addresses, go to start, run and type \\192.168.0.2 or whatever the address of the other PC is and press enter. The shares should appear.

Heres the weird thing, I am able to ping the other computer's ip address, but \\192.168.0.xx did not work at all. It would just say windows cannot access \\192.168.0.xx

Look at the event viewer. It may tell you why you are getting that error message. Start, run, eventvwr.msc press enter. Look at all three logs.

I failed to find it in the evenviewer, that thing was confusing. But in the error details it said error code 0x80070035 The network path was not found. Interesting thing is that the xp destktop can not even access its own shared folders through \\192.168.0.61 , but \\computername does work. However the shared folders in \\computername were actually not accessible. On the vista computer though, the shared files are fully accessible, through both \\192.168.0.51 and \\computername. Something is wrong with the xp desktop, and I can't even begin to figure out what. Its ip is clearly listed under ipconfig /all, and it can ping itself, and the vista desktop can ping it, I just don't know what's wrong.

Can the Vista PC see the XP shares if you use \\computername? Is there another firewall besides Windows running on the XP box such has Norton?

I've figured it out. It turns out that netbios was somehow not working, and after altering the registry and resetting netsh winsock or something, I got it to work. Basically when I typed nbtstat -n it would say failed to load driver and stuff like that, even though I had netbios over tcp on. Now the only problem is that it says "access is denied when I try to access xp from vista comp, but I can access vista comp from xp just fine. I have no firewall on, and the file/printer sharing is on, so I'm comfused on why it's like that.