http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx
The above link should help.
In Vista Network and sharing make sure Network Discovery is on, and Vista's
workgroup name, WORKGROUP is changed to XP's default workgroup name, MSHOME.
"Justin" wrote:
> 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.....
>
> Thanks,