Hi
Did not mention which antivirus or 3rd party firewall if its present
Regards
PEF
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>I gotta say, no computer problem has ever caused me this much grief or
>caused
> me to cuss so much in my life, so hopefully someone can help me...
>
> I have been trying for the good part of a month to set up a network
> between
> ONE Vista machine and ONE XP Machine, and have been told to go screw
> myself
> by my Vista machine at every turn, everyday...
>
> I've realized I posted about this awhile ago but here is my problem again
> in
> a nutshell:
>
> *The XP Machine cannot see the Vista Machine, ever.
> *The Vista Machine will occassionally show the XP machine in the Network
> Folder, about 25% of the time.
> *I am sometimes able to access the XP machine using \\ip address. When
> this
> is successful, sometimes I am able to actually read/write to folders,
> other
> times access is denied.
> *If the XP machine shows up in the Network Folder, it is almost guaranteed
> that I won't be able to access it via \\ip address. If the XP machine does
> not show up in the Network forlder, then I have a better chance of using
> \\ip
> address.
> *The XP machine always comes out in the Network Map.
>
> I have a Linksys WRT350N wireless router. The Vista box is connected with
> a
> cable, and the XP brick is connected wirelessly.
>
> I have determined the following, beyond a doubt:
> *The problem lies with the Vista box and not the XP brick because I have a
> Archos portable media player (its OS is Linux based I believe), and both
> the
> player and the brick can see each other and interact just fine.
> *It maybe a problem with NetBios Over TCP/IP, as ipconfig.txt says it is
> disabled on all my adapters (even thoe it is clearly enabled in WINS tab).
> *It maybe a problem with the NT Browser Service, as browstat.txt says
> browsing is not active on the domain, I cannot find it in the service
> list.
>
> (I've tried everything in PChuck articles and all Mick Murphy suggestions,
> the standard stuff I guess)
> (the output of the ipconfig.txt and browstat.txt is included in a reply)
>
> Thanks in advance for any help, sorry if I sound rude. :P