Mixed windows network not working

I hope someone can help?



I have;

D-Link 604 router with

1X Windows XP desktop connected via cat5 cable

1 X Windows 98 desktop connected via cat5 cable

1 X Windows Vista home premium laptop connected via wifi



All machines use DHCP from the router and when ipconfig is used have

192.168.1.X & 255.255.255.0 with the router as gateway.



All machines have access to the internet via the router.






All have MSHOME as the windows network group.



I have shared files on the XP desktop & Vista machines



Using network browser no machine can see any other machine and therefore
cannot see the shares.



I can ping the XP & 98 machine from any other machines.



I cannot ping the vista machine from any other machine



I cannot ping any machine using the machine name



I can force a share using the IP (\\192.168.1.X\share) but not using the
names (\\machine\share)



I must be missing something please can someone shed some light?



Thanks in advance, Robert.

no@spam wrote:
> I hope someone can help?

> D-Link 604 router with
>
> 1X Windows XP desktop connected via cat5 cable
>
> 1 X Windows 98 desktop connected via cat5 cable
>
> 1 X Windows Vista home premium laptop connected via wifi

> I can force a share using the IP (\\192.168.1.X\share) but not using the
> names (\\machine\share)

> I must be missing something please can someone shed some light?

Have you got any personal firewalls on the machines, these can cause
hiccups.

Geoff Lane

"Geoff Lane" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> no@spam wrote:
>> I hope someone can help?
>
>> D-Link 604 router with
>>
>> 1X Windows XP desktop connected via cat5 cable
>>
>> 1 X Windows 98 desktop connected via cat5 cable
>>
>> 1 X Windows Vista home premium laptop connected via wifi
>
>> I can force a share using the IP (\\192.168.1.X\share) but not using the
>> names (\\machine\share)
>
>> I must be missing something please can someone shed some light?
>
> Have you got any personal firewalls on the machines, these can cause
> hiccups.
>
> Geoff Lane

Thanks for the reply, yes I forgot to mention that I kncked the firewall on
and off on the Vista machine but it made no difference.
Robert

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:22:06 -0000, <no@spam> wrote:

>
>"Geoff Lane" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> no@spam wrote:
>>> I hope someone can help?
>>
>>> D-Link 604 router with
>>>
>>> 1X Windows XP desktop connected via cat5 cable
>>>
>>> 1 X Windows 98 desktop connected via cat5 cable
>>>
>>> 1 X Windows Vista home premium laptop connected via wifi
>>
>>> I can force a share using the IP (\\192.168.1.X\share) but not using the
>>> names (\\machine\share)
>>
>>> I must be missing something please can someone shed some light?
>>
>> Have you got any personal firewalls on the machines, these can cause
>> hiccups.
>>
>> Geoff Lane
>
>Thanks for the reply, yes I forgot to mention that I kncked the firewall on
>and off on the Vista machine but it made no difference.
>Robert
>
How about the XP firewall ?
Robert

no@spam wrote:
> "Geoff Lane" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> no@spam wrote:
>>> I hope someone can help?
>>> D-Link 604 router with
>>>
>>> 1X Windows XP desktop connected via cat5 cable
>>>
>>> 1 X Windows 98 desktop connected via cat5 cable
>>>
>>> 1 X Windows Vista home premium laptop connected via wifi
>>> I can force a share using the IP (\\192.168.1.X\share) but not using the
>>> names (\\machine\share)
>>> I must be missing something please can someone shed some light?
>> Have you got any personal firewalls on the machines, these can cause
>> hiccups.
>>
>> Geoff Lane
>
> Thanks for the reply, yes I forgot to mention that I kncked the firewall on
> and off on the Vista machine but it made no difference.
> Robert
>
>
Have you had a read through this:-
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx