Vista - Vista not connecting to workgroup

Old topic, but I am stumped. My Vista laptop (wireless) is unable to see or
connect to my XP desktop. It once worked perfectly, but then I made the
unfortunate mistake of upgrading XP to SP3 and doing the SP1 upgrade to
Vista. It's been non-functioning ever since. I've spent the last 4 hours
trying to get it going again and have attempted many thing to no avail:

-Installed the LLTD patch on XP, since it was left out of SP3
-Pings work from Vista to the router, the XP system and even a WIN98 system
on the network
-Pings work from the XP system to the WIN98 system and the router, but not
to the Vista system (not good)
-disabled all firewalls (XP's and Vista's) , no change
-changed all Workgroup names, no change
-the Vista system sees nothing on the network, XP sees the Vista system

The pings that fail from the XP system to the Vista system are problematic,
however the stupid XP system does SEE the Vista system when it comes online,
it just can't get to it, firewall or not (again the failing pings).

As I said, this worked perfectly for 6 months, and I now kick myself for
applying all the upgrades, but I guess I am one of the idiots that trusted
MS. Maybe it's a simple answer, but I don't see it.

HELP.

--
Jim Bob Buckeye
AKA
**** Jim Leder****
K8CXM since 1961
IBM retiree since 1999

There are 10 types of people in this world -- those who understand binary
and those who don't.

I would suspect your router before I'd suspect the application of the SPs. I
have both as well by the way and no problems.

Turn everything off cycle your router. Work on only one machine at a time.
Delete all connections and let Windows reestablish them. Get one machine
working before you move onto the next. (See the internet, get the proper IP
from router--same subnet, DNS working, log onto the router admin page,
verify sharing.)

"Jim Leder" <k8cxm@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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