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| | Vista Home premium home network with XP using workgroup (no domain I tried te establish a network between a laptop with Vista Home Premium, by using a hub and two other computers, one (PC) with XP pro and one (laptop) XP HE. Both other computers recognize the Vista laptop in the workgroup but the Vista laptop doesn't recognize one of them. I want to work with shared maps. Support told me that Vista Home Premium can work in a wortkgroup but after trying a lot of hours i still haven't found the solution. Who can give me a hint. I am Dutch but the answers or hint can be given in Englisch, Dutch or German. Thanks !. |
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| | Re: Vista Home premium home network with XP using workgroup (no domain Rick wrote: > I tried te establish a network between a laptop with Vista Home Premium, by > using a hub and two other computers, one (PC) with XP pro and one (laptop) XP > HE. > Both other computers recognize the Vista laptop in the workgroup but the > Vista laptop doesn't recognize one of them. I want to work with shared maps. > > Support told me that Vista Home Premium can work in a wortkgroup but after > trying a lot of hours i still haven't found the solution. Who can give me a > hint. > I am Dutch but the answers or hint can be given in Englisch, Dutch or German. > > Thanks !. Yes, Home Premium can work just fine in a Workgroup. Usually problems are caused by firewalls being misconfigured. Make sure you are only using one firewall on each machine and it is configured to allow the local area network as trusted. Here is a link which explains networking with Vista very well: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx Since you have a mixed network with one of the machines being XP Pro, also see this: If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center: a. If you need Pro's ability to set fine-grained permissions, turn off Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab) and create identical user accounts/passwords on all computers. b. If you don't care about using Pro's advanced features, leave the Simple File Sharing enabled. Simple File Sharing means that Guest (network) is enabled. This means that anyone without a user account on the target system can use its resources. This is a security hole but only you can decide if it matters in your situation. Then create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users' home directories (My Documents) or Program Files, but you can share folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the Shared Documents folder. I think the simplest way to handle networking in your situation is to create identical user accounts/passwords on all machines. You can always set the machines to log in automatically later if you prefer. Use the control userpasswords2 method here: Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User |
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| | RE: Vista Home premium home network with XP using workgroup (no domain Just a simple thing to check--XP used MSHOME as the default workgroup name, while Vista uses WORKGROUP. Change it to the same name on all machines. "Rick" wrote: > I tried te establish a network between a laptop with Vista Home Premium, by > using a hub and two other computers, one (PC) with XP pro and one (laptop) XP > HE. > Both other computers recognize the Vista laptop in the workgroup but the > Vista laptop doesn't recognize one of them. I want to work with shared maps. > > Support told me that Vista Home Premium can work in a wortkgroup but after > trying a lot of hours i still haven't found the solution. Who can give me a > hint. > I am Dutch but the answers or hint can be given in Englisch, Dutch or German. > > Thanks !. |
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