Vista - LAN Age of Empires

I just installed Vista. AOE runs fine, but won't recognize the multiplayer
game on the XP. XP can't find the multiplayer game if I start it on Vista.

3rd computer on LAN running XP works fine with other XP computer.

Any suggestions?

KYMailman wrote:
> I just installed Vista. AOE runs fine, but won't recognize the multiplayer
> game on the XP. XP can't find the multiplayer game if I start it on Vista.
>
> 3rd computer on LAN running XP works fine with other XP computer.
>
> Any suggestions?

Did you set up the network sharing on Vista? If not, you need to do so.
Since you haven't told us what you've already tried - if anything - here
is an excellent site that takes you through setting up Vista sharing
step-by-step:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx


Malke
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Thanks for the help. That got them connected. However, the game works on both
computers individually, but when I conect the Vista to the XP it keeps
hanging up for a few seconds at a time. Any suggestions on that?

"Malke" wrote:

> KYMailman wrote:
> > I just installed Vista. AOE runs fine, but won't recognize the multiplayer
> > game on the XP. XP can't find the multiplayer game if I start it on Vista.
> >
> > 3rd computer on LAN running XP works fine with other XP computer.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Did you set up the network sharing on Vista? If not, you need to do so.
> Since you haven't told us what you've already tried - if anything - here
> is an excellent site that takes you through setting up Vista sharing
> step-by-step:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

KYMailman wrote:
> Thanks for the help. That got them connected. However, the game works on both
> computers individually, but when I conect the Vista to the XP it keeps
> hanging up for a few seconds at a time. Any suggestions on that?

Since no one here plays that game, I can't answer your question. I would
suggest posting to 1) the microsoft games newsgroup (see below); 2) any
forums available for the game (Google for them); 3) looking on the
game's tech support site for known issues, patches, workarounds, etc.

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups

Malke
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