EagleOne

Appreciate all of the responses.

I had a typo in my statement:
My final sentance s/h/b > Now all hardware can be "seen" by all

As it turned out I did not need the patch which I believe was to be
applied to the XP O/S. That said, it seems to make some sense.

Thanks again - EagleOne


On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:00:09 -0500, EagleOne
<EagleOne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Vista Business and XP Pro
>
>Initially, my new Vista computer could access my wireless router but
>my Vista computer could not "see" my XP Pro computers nor the reverse.
>
>My solution:
> 1) Make sure that all computers are in the same WORKGROUP
> XP (or Win98) used MSHOME as the default workgroup name
> Vistia uses WORKGROUP as the default workgroup name
> Therefore, on the Vista I changed my workgroup name to MSHOME
> (Control Panel\System\Change Workgroup Name) -OR-
> (Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Sharing Center)
> 2 ) On the Vista Computer one must also TURN Network Discovery ON
> (Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Sharing Center)
>
>Not all hardware can be "seen" by all.