I recently purchased a Toshiba running 32bit Vista. On my network I have 2 vista laptops (1 old & 1 new), and 1 XP desktop. After spending countless hours trying to get my new Vista to see my XP on the network, I decided to see what would happen if I tried to set up my older Vista laptop. After changing the workgroup name and restarting on my older Vista, both my XP machine and my new Vista machine are visible to the network. The old Vista has access to my XP machine, but even though it can see my new Vista it can't access it.My new Vista cannot see any other computer on the network other than itself. File sharing, network discovery, etc are on. It cannot locate other computers even when all my firewalls are disabled. I am able to ping my XP computer but not my other Vista. I have spent all my free time over the past two days trying to figure out why my new Vista can't share files on the network.Help!

Hi, There is a similar issue on our forum, you can refer to it. I can't see vista files on a xp pro computer. http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3841995&SiteID=17 Hope it helps.

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I've gone through each step a couple of times to no avail. The Vista still cannot see any computers on the network except itself. The other computers have no issues viewing and accessing the network. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

petropa wrote: I recently purchased a Toshiba running 32bit Vista. On my network I have 2 vista laptops (1 old & 1 new), and 1 XP desktop. After spending countless hours trying to get my new Vista to see my XP on the network, I decided to see what would happen if I tried to set up my older Vista laptop. After changing the workgroup name and restarting on my older Vista, both my XP machine and my new Vista machine are visible to the network. The old Vista has access to my XP machine, but even though it can see my new Vista it can't access it.My new Vista cannot see any other computer on the network other than itself. File sharing, network discovery, etc are on. It cannot locate other computers even when all my firewalls are disabled. I am able to ping my XP computer but not my other Vista. I have spent all my free time over the past two days trying to figure out why my new Vista can't share files on the network.Help! Here, try this. There seems to be an issue with some vista and xp computers. MS has a fix for this and here is the site to check it out and download it. It has to do with the LLTD responder on the xp machines. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120 Good luck.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I had previously installed LLTD as well. All it did was it made the XP visibile on the network map, but not available to share files with. I should mention that I can see all computers in the network map, but I am unable to share files with any of them. Thanks anyway. Anything else?

petropa wrote: Oh, I forgot to mention that I had previously installed LLTD as well. All it did was it made the XP visibile on the network map, but not available to share files with. I should mention that I can see all computers in the network map, but I am unable to share files with any of them. Thanks anyway. Anything else? You said you checked to make sure that all settings where set to share in firewall as well within windows itself. What firewall and Antivirus programsare you using. Norton (sysmantec) and CA firewalls are know to be problematic with this issue along with some Antivirus programs. I was having same problem as you. I downloaded LLTD and still nothing, then I disabled my firewall (CA) and still nothing. So uninstalled my firewall program (CA)and went with windows firewall in vista and changed my antivirus (CA antivirus) to AVG free version. Now in my network map my xp machine shows up and I can access it with no problems. This is what worked for me, try it and see if that works for you. You can always go back to what you were using before.