Vista -XP Networking...HELP!

I have a small office network, consisting of 4 XP's and 1 Vista. Before we
got the Vista, all computers were on the same network, sharing files &
printers. Since the Vista, nothing seems to work right. The Vista can "see"
one of the XP's, and the 3 other XP's can only "see" each other... I have
done the LLTN (?) download on all XP's. I have enabled NetBIOS on the Vista.
All machines can "ping" each other so I know they're out there somewhere!!!
I'm just not sure where to go from here. We have two printers that are
connected directly each to a computer, and everyone needs access to each of
them (as well as files).

If it helps we have a hard wired network thru a router (sorry, don't know
what kind) and I have done the Microsoft Router Test and "passed" all the
tests except the UPnP, which I don't believe would be causing any of these
problems.

Thanks in advance!!!!!

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:22:01 -0700, Ams2b1g <Ams2b1g@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I have a small office network, consisting of 4 XP's and 1 Vista. Before we
>got the Vista, all computers were on the same network, sharing files &
>printers. Since the Vista, nothing seems to work right. The Vista can "see"
>one of the XP's, and the 3 other XP's can only "see" each other... I have
>done the LLTN (?) download on all XP's. I have enabled NetBIOS on the Vista.
> All machines can "ping" each other so I know they're out there somewhere!!!
>I'm just not sure where to go from here. We have two printers that are
>connected directly each to a computer, and everyone needs access to each of
>them (as well as files).
>
>If it helps we have a hard wired network thru a router (sorry, don't know
>what kind) and I have done the Microsoft Router Test and "passed" all the
>tests except the UPnP, which I don't believe would be causing any of these


>problems.
>
>Thanks in advance!!!!!

If you have all computers able to ping each other, you have the lower level
setup done. But getting higher level networking operational can be a challenge,
and more so with Windows Vista. There are a few gotchas, and not all are
documented by Microsoft in their referential document.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/1...-together.html

Then there are common Windows Networking problems, which have been with us from
the days of Windows 95 and NT, and gotten more common as computers became more
common.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...ghborhood.html

You might want to look at logs from "browstat status", "ipconfig /all", "net
config server", and "net config workstation", from each computer, and try to
diagnose the problem. Read this article, and linked articles, and follow
instructions precisely (download browstat!):
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...#AskingForHelp

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
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