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Re: Network PC's Where Are You
"Justin" <Justin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:45A27A94-1DA7-4BC3-9B40-3B6EAD49DA71@microsoft.com...
>I am fianlly trying to work with VISTA. I have been holding off for
>sometime
> now but as they say all good things comet to an end sometime and I guess
> now
> is my time.
> I have a small workgroup of 6 Windows XP Home PC's. I just got a new
> laptop
> with Vista Home Basic and have joined it to the workgroup. Now when I try
> to
> find the other PC's in the network I can only see my laptop and no other
> computers. I would like to connect to a shared directory on our (so
> called)
> server (just another workstation that has all our shared data) but cannot
> see
> any other computers in the network. I can however pping the other
> computers
> and can connect to them by typing \\XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX in the browser but I
> want
> to connect like I do through a my network places or something.
> Any suggestions would be appreicated.....
In the Network and Sharing Centre, change Network from a Pulic network to a
Private one.
ss.
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