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by jes290

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I am attempting to set up a home networke between a Vista box (wireless) and a XP box (wired). The problems I'm having are, XP can see Vista on the network but cannot access, Vista can't see XP.

Things I have tried:

Updated both machines to current levels.
Disabled firewall.
Re-installed TCP-IP.

I am just trying to share a printer. I have done this a hundred times with different home networks and never experienced so much difficulty. Any help would be great!

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by Former member

is the same as a XP machine check the one of the following solution.
Solution 1
Start?>Control Panel and Select system and Maintenance.
Click the System section.In the ?Computer name, domain, workgroup settings? section, click the ?Change settings? link.
If you?re prompted by the User Account Control module to continue, click Continue.
In the Computer Name tab of the properties, click the Change button.
In the ?Member of? section, select Domain and enter the name of the domain and click OK.
You?ll be prompted for an account with rights to join the Computer to the domain. Enter the details and click OK.
Click OK to the welcome dialog box.Click OK to the notice that the machine will be rebooted.
Click Close to the dialog box
Click Restart Now to the restart prompt.
Once the reboot is complete, the machine will be part of your domain.
Solution 2
Use Netdom.exe to add the computer to the domain.
netdom join ComputerName /domain:DomainName/userd:UserName /passwordd:UserPassword
Yes, there is a letter ?d? after user and password in the netdom command.

Please post back if you have anymore problems or questions.

by jes290

I just set a workgroup between the pc's I'll try this out see if works...

by Former member

Please post back if you have anymore problems or questions.

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