Creating Wireless Connection And File Sharing
Jan 30, 2008
I am wirlessly connecting Vista Laptop(Host) with XP Laptop(Client). Wireless connection has been established. But i cant see XP Laptop in Vista(in network folder, just a internet gateway device icon gets displayed not the connected laptop). Also while sharing a file i cant see the XP laptop in file sharing wizard. I tried connecting to Vista Laptop(via XP) by typing //Vista_Laptop_name, but cant access it.
How can i see Vista laptop in XP one after creating AdHoc connection(and vice versa) and share files consequently.
I am facing another problem:- the wireless connection between laptops keep dropping.
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Mar 23, 2008
Network of two computers, a desktop running vista home premium and a laptop running vista basic. I am the only user on each of the computers, my user account name is the same on both computers and I don't need a password to log on. File sharing is 'on', password protected sharing is 'off', and I have shared the 'documents' folder on both machines
When I view my network I see both computers "PAUL-PC" and PAUL-LAPTOP", when I select the one I'm not working on I see "Users", "Documents" and "Printers". When I select "Documents" I see "\PAUL-LAPTOPDocuments is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource....... etc."
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May 15, 2009
I am having the worst problems connecting using a cable connection, which I need because as I am in Europe at the moment, many sites or private homes are not equipped with wireless. Now, when I connect with cable, everything seems to be working fine, the Toshiba connectivity doctor tells me I am connected, the diagnose program assures me that the problem has been resolved etc. etc. and yet whenever I try to connect (IE, Mozilla, Google, I have tried them all), I get an error screen. I have tried everything I could think of, checking my settings etc. Nothing works.
Let me emphasize that:
1) wireless connection works fine
2) it is a problem with my computer, not the host, since I have encountered
the same problem everywhere (libraries with password protected access,
private homes without password protected access etc.).
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Oct 18, 2009
have 3 computers - desktop and 2 laptops. laptops are on wireless. can I have access to email folders and My Docs/Favorites that are on all 3, from any one of the computers? If so, how do I do it, short of copying all the stuff to each individual computer.
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Jun 7, 2008
I'm connecting two PCs one of which is connected to the inet through a USB ADSL modem and both are connected through an Ethernet switch, the properties of the LAN Card connection on the first PC (which is running Windows Vista) has No Sharing Tap for sharing the internet to apply ICS (Internet Connection Sharing).
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Mar 24, 2008
With Vista, I can get internet for my new Dell XPS laptop over the wireless connection without doing anything other than selecting the connection. No user name or password is needed. But to plug in directly into my cable modem, it does not work. Seems to require user name and password. But I use Verizon and a Motorola SB5101 modem and while it is broadband, I did not think it is pppoe. I don't even know of any user name or password for my account. Am I wrong, is all broadband pppoe? My internet connection works just fine without asking for pppoe login info when I use my desktop with Windows XP. So, it seems to Vista specific problem.
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May 20, 2008
I want to share the internet connection of my Desktop onto my Laptop. The Desktop is running XP and connects to the internet using the GPRS connection of my cellphone via Bluetooth. The Desktop is connected by cable to a router and from router over wifi to my laptop which has Windows Vista Ultimate.
Both the pc's can ping each other and I've successfully configured them for sharing files and folders. But even though I've shared the gprs dialup connection on XP and selected the corresponding local area connection, Vista is not letting me access to the Internet! I have even disabled the firewall but it's still showing Local only.
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May 1, 2008
when I enter network properties for my primary connection and I try to enable network connection sharing a window pops up and tells me this: An error occured while Internet Connection Sharing was being enabled. The dependency service or group failed to start. I've tried enabling some services I found in another guide but that didn't help me. I've tried updating my windows, network drivers, starting every network related service inservices.msc, it seems like I've done everything.
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Nov 9, 2008
I can't make it work : how do you connect a XP (with Internet connection) to a Vista (so that it has Internet connection) via a Ethernet cable ? It worked well when I had two XP computers : I just ran Magix Wizard (or so) and HOP! It was done. With Vista, you don't have any Wizard! The only magic trick is how your computer makes you then. I've been searching the Internet, forums and all for days and I still doesn't have a clue!
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Mar 23, 2008
I have seen quite a few other cases of this online but so far NOONE has an answer!! I have been struggling trying to get my 360 connected to pc via ICS after upgrading on vista (worked fine on xp). Now the weirdest thing has happened. I have previously enabled ICS for my wireless connection, but now when I go to properties the entire tab for sharing has disappeared. So I can no longer disable it... or do anything sharing related. It was definately there before!! And the connection is showing up as shared... but now I cannot get back to this tab! As I said there are other cases of this online but noone has found
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Feb 18, 2009
my computer doesnt have a wireless network card. It accesses the internet as it is connected to the wireless router with a yellow Ethernet cable. My laptop accesses the internet wirelesses. since my computer is connected to the wireless router, i thought it would be possible to set up a wireless home network to allow files sharing as well as accessing peripherals
on the laptop i went to Start>network>network & sharing center> set up a connection or network>set up a wireless router or access point, click next>click next> message says "Windows detected network hardware but cannot configure it automatically" i clicked the first option> logged on>but all settings were ok nothing wrong
i started everything again then chose the second option> i inserted the USB into the computer but i got a message saying i dont have the wireless network card/software on the computer . why does this matter since its connected to the wireless router
1)Is it possible to set up a wireless home network without buying anything
2)Can i have a really simple set by step guide on how to set this up in Windows Vista Home Premium
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Aug 25, 2009
I have a new computer, Vista that I can't get file sharing to work. I have it turned on and can see the computer but when I try to access it I get the message I don't have permission etc. I did get print sharing working. The computer I'm using that I'm trying to access from also has Vista. It's the one with the router. I have a notebook on the network, xp, which I can access just fine. The "new" computer I can see the other two computers and access their files. I have everything checked correctly in the network card. I've turned off my firewall and disabled Kaspersky.
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Apr 25, 2008
i have a couple of problems now, both very annoying:
1) my pc does not connect to the internet when i wake it from sleep. It requires me to shut down and turn off power completely, then reboot. My previous install of windows was fine
2) my pc is set up (as far as i can tell) to file share. to see other computers AND share. I cannot see other XP machines on my network, they cannot see me. Before i reinstalled it was also fine. I have tried so many different things now to rectify the problem but nothing seems to solve it
I'm a little annoyed at microsoft to be honest. I've put up with so many problems and worked aorund them, but sleeping and file sharing - two features which they used to sell vista have given me such problems recently.
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Mar 23, 2008
I need to get my vista machine to file share with my mac os x machine and i cant seem to figure this out.
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May 14, 2008
I have very similar question to one below, but the other way around. I have a network of four computers: Prospero (Windows Me), Server (Windows XP pro), Miranda (laptop/wireless, Windows XP pro), and Sound (Vista Home Premium). Sound only sees the XP computers in the mapping facility, but does not see their shared volumes, so I can't use them. It also doesn't see the shared volume of an Iomega network drive.
All the others can see the shared folders on the Sound, although Sound won't accept the password entered from Prospero (Windows ME) so it can't open the shared volumes. I've tried with and without password access to the Vista machine. I want to upgrade Server to Vista Business, but I'm not going to do this until I can fix this issue. (I've gone through all the troubleshooting steps.) As an aside, if I try to mount the network drive using the Iomega utility, it says Network Service not started, but it doesn't tell me which service. The event list doesn't really help either.
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Nov 4, 2009
I setup a workgroup network of 4 machines.
1 x win xp - home
1 x win xp - pro
2 x vista home premium
one of the vista machines has a shared folder on it and all 3 of the other machines access it via mapped drive and by IP and not name the xp - home machine intermittenly gets errors when trying to access this shared drive, either error while reconnecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxoffice data or not enough server storage available to process this command i tried changing the stack size but it has not worked amongst other things,
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Oct 4, 2009
I use Window Vista. I have no problem connecting to the internet if I use a normal cable but when I use my wireless LAN AP, my PC can detect the wireless router with no problem at all but then my PC could not connect to the Internet (the Earth). My wireless router is a IEEE 802.11 LAN. I believe this is related to some codes or something that I should enter?
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Oct 16, 2009
I just purchased a new Toshiba laptop. It is 64 bit with Vista Home Premium. Desktop is Compaq with XP. Connection between the two is cable direct connect through a Linksys router. Occasionally I do go wireless. Its a very simple network and its doesn't require any security since i am the only person that uses both computers. Toshiba can read and write files on Compaq.
Compaq can see the Toshiba in its network places but when I double-click on it, I get a request for a username and password which I do not know what to respond to since I have no passwords set on the Toshiba. I've set sharing on Toshiba C-drive and even turned off the Windows Firewall. How do I turn the password prompt off or at least know what to respond.
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Mar 23, 2008
With my Vista laptop practically every day getting access to several file shares that are on a Windows XP box causes me a major headache. Every other day or so it takes me at least 15 minutes to finally get access to a share that I need for my daily work. Initially the system often reports, that it couldn't find the other system (which is a clear lie, since one can perfectly ping the other side, even by system name, not just by IP address) or it reports right away that access was denied (without even asking for a pwd).
I then usually delete all cached credentials (using "net use * /d"). This at least triggers, that the login dialog pops up again when trying to open a share on the other system, but even though the user id and the pwd are clearly correct, the response is normally "logon unsuccessful - check ... ". Usually after dozens of attempts at some point things then suddenly work again, sometimes I have to wait for like half an hour and then try again, but I haven't yet been able to figure out, why and when. And esp. not been able to reliably reproduce this and getting it working in a controlled way and right away.
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Apr 6, 2009
I have four networked computers, three of them run Vista and the fourth runs XP Pro. I can see every Vista computer on each Vista computer, but cannot access them. File sharing is enabled on all of them. The XP computer does not show up in the network places window on any of the Vista computer, nor does it's IP address show up on my IP scanner. The XP computer can see one of the Vista computers (not all), and it, too, has sharing enabled.
Three of the computers, two of my Vista computers & my XP computer, run Kaspersky IS 2009. The third still runs a trial version of NAV 2009. My router is a DLink XTreme N Gigabit router. I was told that this problem stems from firewall configurations, or lack thereof, on each computer. I am unsure as how to rectify it. I would like to be able to access data between all of the computers.
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Apr 16, 2009
Vista SP1 requires NetBIOS to connect to fileshares over VPN connections. Any planned changes for SP2 or 7?
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Sep 23, 2008
I've got a file in my vista /public/video folder and everytime I try to copy it to my linux box it keeps asking for a password. i've turned off the password protection in Vista, so what do I do?
it turns out that Nautilus (a commonly used linux file manager) cannot access Vista shared folders, it's a bug. It has no trouble with accessing Xp shared folders. Also, copying files from Vista is SLOW, about half the speed of Xp and linux.
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Mar 23, 2008
It seems details are needed before a solution can be found, so I will provide all that I can...........................
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Jun 26, 2009
I have 3 Vista machine in a home network belonging to the same workgroup. On all the machines Network discovery, File sharing and Public folder sharing are turned on (Printer sharing, password protected sharing and media sharing are turned off). Each machine can see the other two machines in Explorer>Network.
On one of the machines, I have shared a couple of folders in the C drive and added Everyone in Choose people to share with, giving Co-owner permission level. This works fine and I can see these folders and all the files they contain on the other machines. However, if I share files and/or a folder & files in the Documents folder with similar permission level these do not show on the other machines.......
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Mar 23, 2008
when I tell vista to turn file sharing on, shouldn't it actually listen to me? When I select 'turn file sharing on' and apply it doesn't actually seem to do anything. Also the public folder filesharing gives the message 'RPC server unavailable'. Other computers on the network cannot be seen, but the router can. I have checked the router, done all the standard reseting things, checked that file sharing and network discovery are allowed by the firewall (and even turned it off to make doubly sure), used the netsetup program, and had several people who are fairly fluent with networking all give up in frustration.
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Jun 25, 2009
Recently when using Skype, my microphone is very scratchy when I am on wireless. I thought that it was the microphone. However, if I am on a hard wired connection, the microphone is fine. Also an external microphone works fine even when I am on the same wireless connection. I am in China, need to talk with family. I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop. My wife has the same computer and hers works fine on wireless. So I don’t feel that it is the wireless connection.
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Jun 15, 2008
My wireless is not turning on so that I can connect to my home wireless network. The wireless is set to "on" on the switch on my computer. When I reset my computer, the light turns on as if the wireless is working. As vista starts up, the light and wireless connection remain active, but as soon as vista is done starting up, the light indicating my wireless radio is on turns off and I can't connect to any wireless
network.
Does this make sense? other computers in the house are connecting fine to the wireless but my computer is dropping it before i can even connect.
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May 28, 2009
My son's got a Vista laptop running off a wireless Linksys router. It's been running great for almost 2 years but for some reason his wireless connection recently went from `secured' to `unsecured'. Have no idea what caused this change. Nothing was done to the router. Can anyone tell me how to re-secure his current wireless connection? Perhaps there are some MS sites out there that can provide step by step directions.
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Jun 1, 2008
I cannot connect to my wireless network after reintsalling Vista on my notebook. I hvae an HP dv6139us notebook. I can see the newtork and I can try to connect but everytime I try to, it does not connect for an unknown reason. I have a secure network and i put the correct passphrase in as all my other computers connect with no problems. I have also dover a little deeper into this and when you look and the nwetwork and sharing center and click view full map, under the drop down menu there is an error message that states, network adapter is not enabled. How do i enbale the adatper? As I have checked this in the device manager and it shows that this is enabled. I am totally confused and lost and about to pull my hair out.
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Aug 20, 2009
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