trouble connecting vista to xp

Hi I am having trouble connecting my pc that is running xp through a d/link
router to my lap top that is running vista, I can't see the xp pc on the
laptop or the laptop on the xp pc, I can connect to the net from both the
laptop and pc, Can someone help me please?

"Ray" <Ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi I am having trouble connecting my pc that is running xp through a
> d/link
> router to my lap top that is running vista, I can't see the xp pc on the
> laptop or the laptop on the xp pc, I can connect to the net from both the
> laptop and pc, Can someone help me please?

See this for help setting up File & Print Sharing on Vista...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx

XP...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040/en-us

Make sure XP has the LLTD upgrade installed so you can see the XP box in the
Vista network map...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120/en-us

More help from PChuck's (MS-MVP) site...

http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/1...-together.html
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...indows-xp.html

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