Filesharing between XP Pro PC and Vista laptop?

Hi,

I have a home PC running XP Pro. This hosts my broadband connection (I
use a Netgear DG834 wireless router/access point). I used to have a HP
laptop also running XP Pro and this was able to share my internet
connection and also access shared folders and files on my home PC.

I've just bought a new HP laptop which came pre-installed with Vista
Home Premium and I'm having a devil of a job configuring it. I managed
to get it to share the internet connection, but it couldn't see the
shared folders on my home PC. I've tweaked around with the network
settings and now it has lost the ability to access the internet. It's
driving me mad! Does anyone have any advice or can point me at useful
guides for how to set it up?

I hate the way that Vista disguises all the functions in "nice user-
friendly" language rather than just letting me get at the settings.

Cheers,

M

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:42:21 -0700, Mister M
<(E-Mail Removed)> mused:

>Hi,
>
>I have a home PC running XP Pro. This hosts my broadband connection (I
>use a Netgear DG834 wireless router/access point).

Not sure how you've got this set up, or whether you understand how
you've got it set up, but your router should be hosting and sharing
your internet connection, not one of your PC's. Do you have to have
the PC on for other users to connect to the internet?

>I used to have a HP
>laptop also running XP Pro and this was able to share my internet
>connection and also access shared folders and files on my home PC.
>
>I've just bought a new HP laptop which came pre-installed with Vista
>Home Premium and I'm having a devil of a job configuring it. I managed
>to get it to share the internet connection, but it couldn't see the
>shared folders on my home PC. I've tweaked around with the network
>settings and now it has lost the ability to access the internet. It's
>driving me mad! Does anyone have any advice or can point me at useful
>guides for how to set it up?
>
The first time I used Vista it was for a friends PC, they had a
printer on a Vista machine and wanted it shared across the network
along with a shared folder on the Vista machine. I found it all pretty
similar to XP, unsurprisingly.

>I hate the way that Vista disguises all the functions in "nice user-
>friendly" language rather than just letting me get at the settings.
>
That sounds familiar.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

In message <(E-Mail Removed). com>,
Mister M <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>I hate the way that Vista disguises all the functions in "nice user-
>friendly" language rather than just letting me get at the settings.

Make sure you turn on network discovery and also that they are both on
the same workgroup.
HTH
--
Devs
"Punchdown Pete the old Kroner"

Lurch wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:42:21 -0700, Mister M
> <(E-Mail Removed)> mused:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a home PC running XP Pro. This hosts my broadband connection (I
>> use a Netgear DG834 wireless router/access point).
>
> Not sure how you've got this set up, or whether you understand how
> you've got it set up, but your router should be hosting and sharing
> your internet connection, not one of your PC's. Do you have to have
> the PC on for other users to connect to the internet?
>


Quite, lesson number one for setting up windows pc for file sharing, do not
use windows file sharing wizard, lesson two .......

Gaz

Mister M wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a home PC running XP Pro. This hosts my broadband connection (I
> use a Netgear DG834 wireless router/access point). I used to have a HP
> laptop also running XP Pro and this was able to share my internet
> connection and also access shared folders and files on my home PC.
>
> I've just bought a new HP laptop which came pre-installed with Vista
> Home Premium and I'm having a devil of a job configuring it. I managed
> to get it to share the internet connection, but it couldn't see the
> shared folders on my home PC. I've tweaked around with the network
> settings and now it has lost the ability to access the internet. It's
> driving me mad! Does anyone have any advice or can point me at useful
> guides for how to set it up?
>
> I hate the way that Vista disguises all the functions in "nice user-
> friendly" language rather than just letting me get at the settings.
>
> Cheers,
>
> M

It sounds possibly, that by sharing the internet connection, you have set
your laptop up as a router. You need to disable all internet sharing on both
computers, make sure both are on the same workgroup. Create a folder, and
then right click and share it.

go to your xp machine, and chances are you can access it via network
neighbourhood. If you have any third party firewall ie, norton shit security
or MacApileofshite security then you might want to disable them while trying
to get it to work (on both machines).

Gaz

(E-Mail Removed) declared for all the world to hear...
> Hi,
>
> I have a home PC running XP Pro. This hosts my broadband connection (I
> use a Netgear DG834 wireless router/access point).

The surely your router "hosts" your broadband connection?

> I used to have a HP
> laptop also running XP Pro and this was able to share my internet
> connection and also access shared folders and files on my home PC.
>
> I've just bought a new HP laptop which came pre-installed with Vista
> Home Premium and I'm having a devil of a job configuring it. I managed
> to get it to share the internet connection, but it couldn't see the
> shared folders on my home PC. I've tweaked around with the network
> settings and now it has lost the ability to access the internet. It's
> driving me mad! Does anyone have any advice or can point me at useful
> guides for how to set it up?

I had no such troubles with vista. Plugged in a LAN cable, change the
workgroup to the same as the other PCs and they can all see each other
fine in vistas "network and sharing center".
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Regards
Jon

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:45:11 +0100, Devs <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>In message <(E-Mail Removed). com>,
>Mister M <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>I hate the way that Vista disguises all the functions in "nice user-
>>friendly" language rather than just letting me get at the settings.
>
>Make sure you turn on network discovery and also that they are both on
>the same workgroup.
>HTH

I've just (about an hour ago) managed to get my Vista laptop "seeing"
the W2K desktop which has the router due to one of these very two
suggestions.

I suspect it was the latter in my case.

Steve.

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:35:22 +0100, SteveShark
<(E-Mail Removed)> mused:

>On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:45:11 +0100, Devs <(E-Mail Removed)>
>wrote:
>
>>In message <(E-Mail Removed). com>,
>>Mister M <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>>I hate the way that Vista disguises all the functions in "nice user-
>>>friendly" language rather than just letting me get at the settings.
>>
>>Make sure you turn on network discovery and also that they are both on
>>the same workgroup.
>>HTH
>
>I've just (about an hour ago) managed to get my Vista laptop "seeing"
>the W2K desktop which has the router due to one of these very two
>suggestions.
>
The W2K desktop has a router? WTF are people doing to their PC's?
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Regards,
Stuart.