I bought a new HP laptop w/ Vista. Trying to get the network running. Also, have a Win98,SP2 (1GHz,256Mb) desktop with a shared printer connected, hard wired to a D-Link DI614+ wireless router which also connects to an ADSL internet modem. Have an Win/ME (ver 4.90.3000, PIII processor,128MB,700mHz) laptop with a D-Link DWL-650+ wireless net card. All the computers can access the internet. The two laptops can see each other as a file sharing resource. Neither can see the desktop and the desktop can see neither of the laptops for file share. The Win/ME lap and the desk used to file share, but I haven't used the feature in a while, so have no idea when they stopped. I can ping any computer from any other computer successfully. The Win/ME lap can still access the printer over the network, although the printer doesn't show up as a network resource. The desktop and the Win/ME lap can talk to each other over the network using PCAnywhere. I just can't get file sharing and printer sharing to work. I think something is bonkers on the desktop, but what? If tried shutting off all the firewall programs, no help. The Desk network settings fir the network card are: Client for Microsoft;Windows logon;File and printer sharing for MS networks;Get IP auto;No WINS;No gateway;Disable DNS;Client and File share bindings I remove and reinstalled the network resources on the desktop, no help. The Vista Lap Sharing and Discovery setting are: Discovery:ON,File Share:ON, Public Share: ON, Printer Share:ON, home network is a private network. All the computers use the same Win98 default network name:WORKGROUP Any suggestions where I can go from here to get the file shares to work on this mess? Thanks, Jaye

Have you enabled Simple File Sharing? Life's more painless for the brainless.

Jennifer, Thanks. I'll look into it. A couple of days ago the Win98 desktop crashed. When I went to reboot it came up with a Windows Protection fault and wouldn't boot except in Safe Mode. When it booted in Safe, there was a message about something may be wrong with the network, and I removed all the network components from the Computer, and disabled all the network card's drivers. I rebooted in regular mode. It came up OK. I reinstalled the network components, etc. Now the network all runs OK and I got my file and printer sharing to work. I don't know what was wrong, but it seems to be OK now. I hate magic wand fixes, but who knows. Jaye