Vista, wireless networking, and printer sharing

[lord_verminaard at yahoo.com (Brendan Doyle)]

This might sound whacky, but is the firewall running on your machine?  I've found that a lot of times file sharing will not work on the machine with the firewall turned off.  Also, do you have simple file sharing enabled or disabled on the XP machine?  You want it DISABLED.  That's in Tools->Folder options->View then scroll all the way to the bottom.  Are both PC's in the same workgroup?

Brendan

----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Smith <smithma7@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Allyn <amalventano1@xxxxxxx>
Cc: car <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:44:21 AM
Subject: Re: Vista, wireless networking, and printer sharing

File and printer sharing is enabled on both computers.  The windows
firewall is not currently running on her machine.

Next...

On 5/16/07, Allyn <amalventano1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Make sure enable file and printer sharing enabled in network connection.
> Make sure file and printer sharing checked as an exception in windows firewall.
> HTH
> Al
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Smith [mailto:smithma7@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:33 PM
> > To: car
> > Subject: OT: Vista, wireless networking, and printer sharing
> >
> > My wife just picked up a new laptop with Vista. I've got it
> > on the network with the wireless router, etc. She has access
> > to the net. I can see her computer from mine. She can't see
> > mine from hers. I set up the printer (HP 1210 PSC) on my USB
> > and it works. I've made it a share. But neither it nor my PC
> > are viewable via my wife's laptop.
> > What gives? Used to share this printer with no problems. Is
> > it a wireless thing (first time with wireless) or a Vista
> > thing (first time with Vista)? Or is it something else?
> >
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Mike
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