"RipperT" <rippert@nospam.net> wrote in message
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>I am trying to add a Gateway Vista Home Premium laptop to my existing
>wireless network. Network and connection sharing shows it is connected to
>my network with excellent sig strength, but it cannot see other machines
>on the network or connect to the internet. Firewalls are disabled,
>"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Network Discovery setting
>says "Custom"; my research shows it should be "On". Options are "Turn
>network discovery on" and "Turn network discovery off". Neither is
>selected, the latter is disabled. I choose "Turn network discovery on" and
>click apply and it returns to the same configuration. More research shows
>someone with the same trouble resolved it by turning on SSDP Discovery and
>UPnP services. In Services, I see that both are already started and one
>depends on the other, but the startup type for SSDP is "manual". I figure
>I'll change it to "automatic" and reboot, maybe that will enable me to
>turn on Network Discovery. Changing the startup type is no-go. I get
>myriad error messages including "access denied" and "the specified value
>does not exist in the registry". What is going on? I am conviced this
>laptop can't see the other network devices because Network Discovery is
>not "on". Please help!
>
> Ripper

"RipperT" <rippert@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:op.uhyohaz0to80o2@lab2.smith...
>I am trying to add a Gateway Vista Home Premium laptop to my existing
>wireless network. Network and connection sharing shows it is connected to
>my network with excellent sig strength, but it cannot see other machines
>on the network or connect to the internet. Firewalls are disabled,
>"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Network Discovery setting
>says "Custom"; my research shows it should be "On". Options are "Turn
>network discovery on" and "Turn network discovery off". Neither is
>selected, the latter is disabled. I choose "Turn network discovery on" and
>click apply and it returns to the same configuration. More research shows
>someone with the same trouble resolved it by turning on SSDP Discovery and
>UPnP services. In Services, I see that both are already started and one
>depends on the other, but the startup type for SSDP is "manual". I figure
>I'll change it to "automatic" and reboot, maybe that will enable me to
>turn on Network Discovery. Changing the startup type is no-go. I get
>myriad error messages including "access denied" and "the specified value
>does not exist in the registry". What is going on? I am conviced this
>laptop can't see the other network devices because Network Discovery is
>not "on". Please help!
>
> Ripper

> I am trying to add a Gateway Vista Home Premium laptop to my existing 
> wireless network. Network and connection sharing shows it is connected 
> to my network with excellent sig strength, but it cannot see other 
> machines on the network or connect to the internet. Firewalls are 
> disabled, "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Network 
> Discovery setting says "Custom"; my research shows it should be "On". 
> Options are "Turn network discovery on" and "Turn network discovery 
> off". Neither is selected, the latter is disabled. I choose "Turn 
> network discovery on" and click apply and it returns to the same 
> configuration. More research shows someone with the same trouble 
> resolved it by turning on SSDP Discovery and UPnP services. In Services, 
> I see that both are already started and one depends on the other, but 
> the startup type for SSDP is "manual". I figure I'll change it to 
> "automatic" and reboot, maybe that will enable me to turn on Network 
> Discovery. Changing the startup type is no-go. I get myriad error 
> messages including "access denied" and "the specified value does not 
> exist in the registry". What is going on? I am conviced this laptop 
> can't see the other network devices because Network Discovery is not 
> "on". Please help!
>
> Ripper

"RipperT" <rippert@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> This turns out to be simply changing the location type from public to
> private, which was one of the first things I did to fix the problem. I'm
> baffled. Oh, well, working now.
>
> Thanks to those who responded.
>
> Rip
>
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:16:12 -0400, RipperT <rippert@nospam.net> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to add a Gateway Vista Home Premium laptop to my existing
>> wireless network. Network and connection sharing shows it is connected
>> to my network with excellent sig strength, but it cannot see other
>> machines on the network or connect to the internet. Firewalls are
>> disabled, "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Network
>> Discovery setting says "Custom"; my research shows it should be "On".
>> Options are "Turn network discovery on" and "Turn network discovery
>> off". Neither is selected, the latter is disabled. I choose "Turn
>> network discovery on" and click apply and it returns to the same
>> configuration. More research shows someone with the same trouble
>> resolved it by turning on SSDP Discovery and UPnP services. In Services,
>> I see that both are already started and one depends on the other, but
>> the startup type for SSDP is "manual". I figure I'll change it to
>> "automatic" and reboot, maybe that will enable me to turn on Network
>> Discovery. Changing the startup type is no-go. I get myriad error
>> messages including "access denied" and "the specified value does not
>> exist in the registry". What is going on? I am conviced this laptop
>> can't see the other network devices because Network Discovery is not
>> "on". Please help!
>>
>> Ripper
>