On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:56:13 -0700, bob
<bob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:I turned the norton firewall off
permanantly and rebooted and that also did the trick, is this safe?
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>Yep old Norton was blocking my vista pc ..all ok now networking great.. thanks
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>"Gameplayer" wrote:
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>> "emmaggy" wrote:
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>> > I have done all the suggestions (made network private, LLTD update on XP
>> > machine, firewalls off, etc...) when I am on my Vista Machine I can SEE the
>> > XP machine in the network map but when I go to "view devices" I cannot see
>> > it. IIn the network map I can click on the Vista machine that I am working on
>> > but I can't click on the XP machine. I can only hover my mouse and see the IP
>> > adress, etc..Please help, I feel that I am close to solving this!
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>> > The map shows
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>> > Internet--->Network--->-Vista Machine
>> > -XP Machine
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>> > Thanks!
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>> ok heres a solution I found find the xp computer ip address
>> if your computer is running nortons security disable the firewall windows
>> firewall is ok to be on
>> open a cli window and ping the ip #
>> the xp computer should now appear on network
>> map a drive on the xp computer on the vista computer
>> after this the xp computer will be on network shortly after bootup