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Guest Ernie Lane
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I have a home wireless network, a "standard" one: the router is attached to

a desktop (XP) and I have a laptop (Vista) that is wireless. I print using

printer sharing on the desktop, so I know the laptop "sees" the desktop.

That's confirmed in My Network Places -- on the laptop, I see Documents and

Shared Documents on the desktop.

 

However, it doesn't work in the other direction: nothing on the laptop, not

even the laptop itself, shows up. However, if I click on "view workgroup

computers" in Start...My Network Places, the computer is listed.

 

I've already installed the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder,

or at least I thought I did. I went through the MS KB document (KB922120),

but when I ran services.msc on the desktop, it wasn't running.

 

I've enabled file sharing, to allow all computers on the network to write to

the Shared Documents folder. However, when I try to save a document there

(from my laptop), it won't let me.

 

Any suggestions?

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Guest Ron Badour
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Re: Network computer not seen

 

Ernie,

 

I think your question may have a better chance of being answered in a

Networking newsgroup where there are folks who hang out that are experts in

fixing networking problems. If you don't get a solution here, try at:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web&cat=en_US_a487cdd8-fd79-4301-9813-2a2497c20996&lang=en&cr=US

 

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Regards

 

Ron Badour

MS MVP Shell User

 

 

"Ernie Lane" <ErnieLane@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:72A07A45-DE1B-4934-9111-131F9018FDE7@microsoft.com...

>I have a home wireless network, a "standard" one: the router is attached

>to

> a desktop (XP) and I have a laptop (Vista) that is wireless. I print

> using

> printer sharing on the desktop, so I know the laptop "sees" the desktop.

> That's confirmed in My Network Places -- on the laptop, I see Documents

> and

> Shared Documents on the desktop.

>

> However, it doesn't work in the other direction: nothing on the laptop,

> not

> even the laptop itself, shows up. However, if I click on "view workgroup

> computers" in Start...My Network Places, the computer is listed.

>

> I've already installed the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder,

> or at least I thought I did. I went through the MS KB document

> (KB922120),

> but when I ran services.msc on the desktop, it wasn't running.

>

> I've enabled file sharing, to allow all computers on the network to write

> to

> the Shared Documents folder. However, when I try to save a document there

> (from my laptop), it won't let me.

>

> Any suggestions?


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