Is his workgroup setup with the same name as your other computers.
"Brad Pears" <bradp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Me again... I incorrectly stated in teh above post that the Vista laptop
> network was configured as "public" when indeed it is configured as
> "private". I should have also mentioned that "network discovery" is turned
> on...
>
> Thanks, Brad
>
> "Brad Pears" <bradp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eUtQRaEBIHA.5160@xxxxxx Quote:
>> We are an XP based organization for the most part and use Windwos 2000
>> and Windwos 2003 servers. Our sales people use their own laptops to
>> access our server software using terminal services and recently several
>> have upgraded or purchased new Vista laptops. This is no big deal as RDP
>> works just fine to access our terminal servers still... .
>>
>> However, one particular salesperson last week wanted to access some
>> documents on one of our Windows 2000 file shares from his local laptop.
>> He was unable to get there.
>>
>> I went over and had a peek at his machine for him and I was unable to do
>> so as well. This user is running Vista Home Premium. Now, I basically
>> know next to nothing about Vista as of yet so I suspect that there is a
>> way to do this, I was just unable to figure it out...
>>
>> I tried mapping a network drive to our domain file share using my domain
>> credentials (which is what you can do using the XP Home version which is
>> also not "domain" friendly) but it was unable to map the drive. Viewing
>> the network shows only his PC - which is kind of what I would have
>> expected I guess...
>>
>> Can anyone give me any ideas as to what I should try or is it just not
>> even possible using this version of Vista? (can't imagine that...)
>>
>> This particular machine connects to our internal LAN using a wireless
>> connection and can access our terminal server with no probs using RDP.
>> The network is set to "public" NOT private and they are obtaining a
>> dynamic IP address from our Win2K DHCP server no probs. I can ping any
>> other machine in the network with no probs either. The Vista firewall is
>> currently off.
>>
>> I do not know what else to look for...
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> Thanks, Brad
>>
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