Vista Tutorial - Windows Vista Home Premium & Network Drives

Hi,

I have recently had to upgrade my laptop and it came with Vista Home Premium
Installed. My other laptops on the home network use XP at present. I am
having great difficulty mapping network drives and network storage devices as
they do initially seem to connect, then all I get is a red cross and a
message to say the path or network drive cannot be found. I am at my wits
end, can anyone advise me or should I go back to XP?

Can you ping each other by IP? If yes, can you ping by name?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Matt" <Matt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news5CDACF7-5439-42C2-A309-2FBB90A37AFB@microsoft.com...
Hi,

I have recently had to upgrade my laptop and it came with Vista Home Premium
Installed. My other laptops on the home network use XP at present. I am
having great difficulty mapping network drives and network storage devices as
they do initially seem to connect, then all I get is a red cross and a
message to say the path or network drive cannot be found. I am at my wits
end, can anyone advise me or should I go back to XP?

Matt
I have the same issue. Within our home network, the desktop is the server
where we store all files and when we had XP on our laptops we were able to
"target" the desktop(XP) from our laptops and "save to" or "retrieve from"
the server or the desktop. I have no idea and microsoft language is not very
helpful in lay terms as to how I can accomplish this now having installed
vista on my laptop.
Any suggestions?
Jerry

"Matt" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently had to upgrade my laptop and it came with Vista Home Premium
> Installed. My other laptops on the home network use XP at present. I am
> having great difficulty mapping network drives and network storage devices as
> they do initially seem to connect, then all I get is a red cross and a
> message to say the path or network drive cannot be found. I am at my wits
> end, can anyone advise me or should I go back to XP?

This article might be helpful for you guys:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx

Thanks,

--
Gloria Boyer
Windows User Assistance team
Microsoft Corporation

Matt, I had the same problem and Chuck from MSFT replied with a variety of
suggestions. I am copying you his reply. The thing that worked for me was to
download the LLTP patch onto my XP computer and after the download I rebooted
all computers and my Vista run laptop was now able to see the other
computers, files, and printers. Here is is reply. Good Luck. Let me look for
the exact path for the download and I will get it to you.

This will frequently be a personal firewall problem, or the NetBT setting.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/0...ing-using.html

And you did set the Vista computer Network Location Type?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/1...-together.html

Look at the logs from "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all", from each
computer,
so we can diagnose the problem. Read this article, and linked articles, and
follow instructions precisely (download browstat!):
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...#AskingForHelp


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"Matt" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently had to upgrade my laptop and it came with Vista Home Premium
> Installed. My other laptops on the home network use XP at present. I am
> having great difficulty mapping network drives and network storage devices as
> they do initially seem to connect, then all I get is a red cross and a
> message to say the path or network drive cannot be found. I am at my wits
> end, can anyone advise me or should I go back to XP?

Matt,

Here is the link to MSFT LLTP download.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true


"Matt" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently had to upgrade my laptop and it came with Vista Home Premium
> Installed. My other laptops on the home network use XP at present. I am
> having great difficulty mapping network drives and network storage devices as
> they do initially seem to connect, then all I get is a red cross and a
> message to say the path or network drive cannot be found. I am at my wits
> end, can anyone advise me or should I go back to XP?

On Tue, 29 May 2007 04:20:00 -0700, Matt <Matt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have recently had to upgrade my laptop and it came with Vista Home Premium
>Installed. My other laptops on the home network use XP at present. I am
>having great difficulty mapping network drives and network storage devices as
>they do initially seem to connect, then all I get is a red cross and a
>message to say the path or network drive cannot be found. I am at my wits
>end, can anyone advise me or should I go back to XP?

Matt,

What you're describing is a name resolution problem, ie inability to learn the
network address for a given name. If your network is using "broadcast" name
resolution, it's frequently caused by either a personal firewall blocking NetBT
traffic, or an inconsistent NetBT setting.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/07/advanced-windows-networking-using.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/0...ing-using.html

There are other possible causes too.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/mysterious-error-53-aka-name-not-found.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...not-found.html

Or you could look at logs from "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all", from the
problem computer and one XP computer, and diagnose the problem. Read this
article, and linked articles, and follow instructions precisely (download
browstat!):
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...#AskingForHelp

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.