bob

Yep old Norton was blocking my vista pc ..all ok now networking great.. thanks

"Gameplayer" wrote:

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> "emmaggy" wrote:
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> > I have done all the suggestions (made network private, LLTD update on XP
> > machine, firewalls off, etc...) when I am on my Vista Machine I can SEE the
> > XP machine in the network map but when I go to "view devices" I cannot see
> > it. IIn the network map I can click on the Vista machine that I am working on
> > but I can't click on the XP machine. I can only hover my mouse and see the IP
> > adress, etc..Please help, I feel that I am close to solving this!
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> > The map shows
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> > Internet--->Network--->-Vista Machine
> > -XP Machine
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> > Thanks!
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> ok heres a solution I found find the xp computer ip address
> if your computer is running nortons security disable the firewall windows
> firewall is ok to be on
> open a cli window and ping the ip #
> the xp computer should now appear on network
> map a drive on the xp computer on the vista computer
> after this the xp computer will be on network shortly after bootup