Vista - Multiplayer LAN Games between Vista & XP

Has anybody been able to successfully play multiplayer lan games between an
xp box and a vista box?

I have tried it with Age of Empires II and Total Annihilation. Both games
play fine on single player but I can not launch a multiplayer game.

The two machines are networked through my router and are sharing an internet
connection and a printer. They can see each others shares no problem. I can
access files on either computer in either direction using file explorer.

But when I create a multiplayer game on either machine and try to connect to
it from the other machine I can not connect. I can see the game on the other
machine and the game tries to connect but eventually times out. The symptoms
are the same whether I create a game on the vista machine or on the xp
machine.

Has anybody else had this problem? Or rather, I should say has anybody been
able to successfully game over their lan with a vista machine and an xp
machine?

Is the Windows Firewall (or any other firewall) blocking them?

"vincentwansink" <vincentwansink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5B209030-6EC5-4F00-A931-4ACB0884B43E@microsoft.com...
> Has anybody been able to successfully play multiplayer lan games between
> an
> xp box and a vista box?
>
> I have tried it with Age of Empires II and Total Annihilation. Both games
> play fine on single player but I can not launch a multiplayer game.
>
> The two machines are networked through my router and are sharing an
> internet
> connection and a printer. They can see each others shares no problem. I
> can
> access files on either computer in either direction using file explorer.
>
> But when I create a multiplayer game on either machine and try to connect
> to
> it from the other machine I can not connect. I can see the game on the
> other
> machine and the game tries to connect but eventually times out. The
> symptoms
> are the same whether I create a game on the vista machine or on the xp
> machine.
>
> Has anybody else had this problem? Or rather, I should say has anybody
> been
> able to successfully game over their lan with a vista machine and an xp
> machine?

Yep, I just installed Total Annihilation today on my Vista machine and it is networked through an older Netgear hub to my Win XP (Home version) machine. TA works great (my son beat me in our first game!) My 1st suggestion would be to disable firewalls on both machines. Then check to see if your IP is setup with TCP/IP ver 4 on the Vista machine. I also got Call of Duty 1 working in multiplayer mode with only some issues with a few maps (not sure why -- it''s either Vista or my new graphics card doesn't like them). Next I'll be checking Civilization: Call to Power, Grand Theft Auto 2, and Battlefield.

I have successfully played Age of Empires III

but it was a loong way to get there (it took me 4 hours due to 3 STUPID problems)

I have Vista Business x32 on my notebook and xp Professional on my PC

and my problem was:

if you set up a LAN network through a router or HUB or however, you must check if the connection works from both computers and you must be able to share files !!!
(try to share a folder and access it on the other computer). In my case this worked fine from my PC with xp accessing my files on the notebook with vista, but I was not able to access my shared PC folders from my notebook.

The problem was (after the firewall and everything...) in REGISTRY of xp windows.

So I advice you (to spare time and work and nervs) and do this:

1->Start->Run->regedit
2->HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
3->SYSTEM
4->CurrentControlSet
5->Control
6->Lsa
7-> and now look to the right side of the open command
there you see a list

focus on
restrictanonymous

(not restrictanonymoussam)
there has to be a number, and it HAS TO BE a " 0 " as a zero in the end
if you want the connection to work properly (I had a number 1 there, but it could be a number 2)

if it is anything else but a zero (or 0) click twice on this restrictanonymous and change it to 0.
than you HAVE TO close the command and reboot (restart) computer.

....


It changes with every next restart, so it could be you would have to change it everytime you would like to play.

than you have to check the version of te game (just update it on all computers to be the same)

and you can play... I was able to!!!


(in AoE3 you get IP written right after PC1 creates the gam and you just copy it on the other computer)

that would be it

It took me too long and since my brother doesn't have a clue about computers, I am now a proud 20 year-old computer maniac girl who has build her own LAN network. -that is very unusual where I live... and I just had to sing a glory to me...

ok whatever


Have a nice time

Hope I helped

Natalia