Hi - I have tried everything I can think of to get a laptop and a desktop
talking to each other so they can share the printer attached to the
desktop
but have failed. Have I missed something? The desktop is XP with
Kaspersky, the laptop is vista with Norton 360 and both work fine
independently via the router.
I can ping the desktop from the wireless laptop but can't get a response
when I ping the laptop from the desktop.
I ran the xp network wizard on the desktop to make sure file and printer
sharing were properly enabled and it was making itself visible on the
network.
I went into the Vista network & sharing centre and turned on file
sharing.
I couldn't enable printer sharing because there is no printer attached
directly to the laptop.
When viewing workgroup computers on the desktop I get the access denied
message.
When trying to view the network on the laptop I see the laptop connected
to
the router connected to the internet but that's all.
I've set up four vista laptops on mixed networks and never had this
problem
before.
I removed Norton but it didn't make any difference.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling all the 'uninstallable' protocols.
The only one left would be the TCP/IP one which has to be reset - it can't
be uninstalled.
I ran spyware checks just in case something was blocking the connection.
I even tried using another router in case the problem lay there but still
no
joy.
I added my laptop (with XP) in the hope I could get the two XP machines to
see each other but no. If I used the browse facility in the add a new
network place option I could see and access the Vista laptop from my
laptop
but not the other way around and I couldn't see the desktop machine at
all.
All three could ping each other and reply to each other but when you try
to
view the the workgroup computers the Vista laptop only sees itself and the
desktop returns the error that MSHOME is not accessible. I've run and
rerun
the network wizard as well.
As I said I have run out of ideas so any suggestions would be very very
welcome.
Thanks
Lizieb
