My wireless laptop running XP Home can't see my Vista machine (RC2 v5744)
but Vista can see and access the files on the XP laptop.  I have tried
disabling the firewalls on both and setting full permissions and nothing is
working.  Can someone please help me?

Thanks,
newtechie

Can you ping Vista by IP?

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
  My wireless laptop running XP Home can't see my Vista machine (RC2 v5744)
  but Vista can see and access the files on the XP laptop.  I have tried
  disabling the firewalls on both and setting full permissions and nothing is
  working.  Can someone please help me?

  Thanks,
  newtechie

Hi Robert - yes I can.
  Can you ping Vista by IP?

  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
    My wireless laptop running XP Home can't see my Vista machine (RC2 v5744)
    but Vista can see and access the files on the XP laptop.  I have tried
    disabling the firewalls on both and setting full permissions and nothing is
    working.  Can someone please help me?

    Thanks,
    newtechie

What do you have when using net view \\vistaip? Or check this troubleshooting,
troubleshooting is not accessible errorTroubleshooting "... is not accessible" error step by step. When try to access a remote computer, you may receive the following error messages: ...
      http://www.howtonetworking.com/Troubleshooting/notaccessibale0.htm 


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
  Hi Robert - yes I can.
    Can you ping Vista by IP?

    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
      My wireless laptop running XP Home can't see my Vista machine (RC2 v5744)
      but Vista can see and access the files on the XP laptop.  I have tried
      disabling the firewalls on both and setting full permissions and nothing is
      working.  Can someone please help me?

      Thanks,
      newtechie

I get a system error 5 has occured.
  What do you have when using net view \\vistaip? Or check this troubleshooting,
  troubleshooting is not accessible error Troubleshooting "... is not accessible" error step by step. When try to access a remote computer, you may receive the following error messages: ...
        http://www.howtonetworking.com/Troubleshooting/notaccessibale0.htm 


  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
    Hi Robert - yes I can.
      Can you ping Vista by IP?

      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
        My wireless laptop running XP Home can't see my Vista machine (RC2 v5744)
        but Vista can see and access the files on the XP laptop.  I have tried
        disabling the firewalls on both and setting full permissions and nothing is
        working.  Can someone please help me?

        Thanks,
        newtechie

updated and still have a the same issue, I might have to reinstall xp

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Don't forget you have public and private networks in Vista. Your Vista
machine should be set private so it can be seen at home and you should make
sure it isn't username and password to get access across the lan.

Lastly, if you have a third party firewall installed on Vista, uninstall it.
I had ZA Pro from the old XP days turned off and upgraded to Vista. ZA Pro
didn't work with Vista and I hadn't tried to use it but though it wasn't
officially loading with Windows it was still stopping the XP machines from
seeing the Vista one. Getting rid of it fixed that.


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