People,
I´ve had the same problem for loooong 8 months!
I have a notebook with xp, a desktop with vista home premiun and a router.
I´ve had read a lot of discussion groups, microsoft tech issues, try this,
try that, dancing the rain dace, etc etc etc....
So, like you sad: a hell!
But, until today! Thanks God!
I executed this program
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Win...sockxpfix.html
that soved my all connective problems with XP x Vista. Yes, I sad ALL.
I read about it here:
http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=190294
Hope it helps you.
Good lock!
"Sid" wrote:
Quote:
> I've tried resetting the Winsock and TCP/IP stacks using netsh.
>
> The XP machine became visible for awhile in the Vista Network folder, but I
> could still not access its resources. But then the Vista maching became
> invisible to the XP machine.
>
> Now its back to normal (XP can now see the Vista machine, but Vista cannot
> see XP)
>
> All I can say now is WTF!?!
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> "TT" wrote:
> Quote:
> > Dear Sid,
> >
> > I've already posted this under a thread called 'authentification mystery',
> > but as it was originated some weeks ago it's a bit hard to find. Thus this is
> > a complete cite of that enty and I hope it might help.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Uuups -- after several weeks I finally found two small registry patches that
> > solved the problem thanks to the hints on PChuck's Network:
> >
> > (a) (That's possible the most important one when using fixed IPs) Got to
> >
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Lsa \
> >
> > There you either find or have to create "LMCompatibilityLevel" as REG_DWORD.
> >
> > Enter 1 as value on all computers in your network. That instructs your
> > computer to use NTLMv2, where possible, but to also accept older auth methods.
> >
> >
> > (b) (Important if you use a DHCP server to assign the IP addresses of your
> > workstations) Got to:
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ Tcpip \
> > Parameters \ Interfaces \ {GUID}
> >
> > (where {GUID} means your active network card, just bwrowse through your few
> > entries till you got it)
> >
> > There you either find or have to create "DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag" as
> > REG_DWORD
> >
> > Enter a value of 0 -- this way Vista does not use DHCP broadcast if your
> > router doesn't support it.
> >
> >
> > After a restart I could connect to my XP Pro SP3 workstations again.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Therese
> >
> >