I have a home network with two desktops ( One running XP Home, and one
running 2000 Pro) and a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I set up the
workgroup network and the XP and 2K machines can connect with each other and
see the Vista machine, but the Vista machine can't see either one. I took
down all the firewalls.
I am by no means an expert but I have added other comps to the network
before and never had it only see one way. Any Help would be great. Thanks

"Grift00" <Grift00@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have a home network with two desktops ( One running XP Home, and one
> running 2000 Pro) and a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I set up the
> workgroup network and the XP and 2K machines can connect with each other
> and
> see the Vista machine, but the Vista machine can't see either one. I took
> down all the firewalls.

My Vista Biz machine also has experienced this problem intermittently,
depending upon which flower some butterfly in China decides to land upon,
although some astrologers may disagree that the butterfly is the cause.

But in all cases, if I open the remote computer from the Run dialog using
the syntax:

\\<computername>

I've always been able to get to both Windows 2000 and XP Pro machines.

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David Dickinson
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If you can see a remote computer but nor browse it, that could be the computer browser issue. Any error in the Event Viewer?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
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"Grift00" <Grift00@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:068B4FA8-70D2-4F2E-BF34-AB1E1A009385@microsoft.com...
I have a home network with two desktops ( One running XP Home, and one
running 2000 Pro) and a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I set up the
workgroup network and the XP and 2K machines can connect with each other and
see the Vista machine, but the Vista machine can't see either one. I took
down all the firewalls.
I am by no means an expert but I have added other comps to the network
before and never had it only see one way. Any Help would be great. Thanks

See and ive had the oposite issue, my desktop is MCE and i can see all the shares on my vista machine,and can access them. but if i share something from it, i can only see it on the mce box not access it..