Systems:
Vista
Compaq Presario C500
Celeron(R) M (1.6ghz)
520 MB Ram
Vista Ultimate
Using onboard Broadcom 802.1 b/g
XP
Compaq Presario
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (2.4ghz)
960 MB Ram
XP Media Center Edition (SP2)
Onboard NVIDIA nForce Network Card
Network Layout
ISP: Comcast(formerly Time Warner)
Router/AccessPoint/Switch: WRT54GX2
XP machine is wired into router
Vista is wireless on router.
The rundown of what ive done so far:
Identical accounts on both machines
File and printer sharing on both
Installed The Link-layer Topology Discovery Responder (on the xp machine)
Same Subnet and IP's are close to each other
Netbios Over TCP/IP
Shared a folder from each machine.
I can ping each other by name and address from both machines
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From the xp desktop I can see the vista shares, I can manipulate files(put and get)
From the vista machine I can see the xp box is there on the network map but I can't see the shares.
Tried even start-run-\\xpmachine\sharename
nothing
Map network drive- "\\xpmachine\sharename"
nothing
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I've went through forums on my router, I contacted linksys, I read the MSKB entries about the file sharing and discovery, and many more... I still cant get the vista "lame-top" to access my share on my pc. HELP!
