Connected here immediately, even without the link-layer software. Is the
network location set to Private on the laptop? Running Home Premium on a
desktop but I had one incident when both WiFi and Ethernet lan adapters were
enabled Vista defaulted one connection to Public and somehow thought the
other was connected to a Domain. Was able to sort it out though and make
both Private.
"Jason" <Jason@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have recently purchased a laptop with Vista Home Premium, only to
>discover
> that it wouldn't recognize my desktop machine on the network. The desktop
> is
> Windows Media Center Edition (XP Pro). I've installed the Topical
> Link-Layer
> Discovery update on the XP machine, and about once out of every three
> visits
> to the "Network" through Explorer, my desktop will show up, but trying to
> access it (ever) will give an error that essentially says "Sorry, chump, I
> asked DNS about that PC, but there's no record of it existing." (Except,
> with
> a Brooklyn accent.)
>
> I'm fairly tech-savvy, so I've done my googling. I've tried enabling the
> sharing options on the Vista machine, setting up accounts with the same
> user
> ID & password on both machines - the standard response to this problem.
> Unfortuneately, none of these things have solved this issue.
>
> Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. I've got software (source
> code - I'm a programmer) and media on my desktop that I really need to get
> to
> from my laptop.
>
> TIA,
> Jason
>