Today's Issue Articles
001: Windows Vista Cant see XP PCs on MSHOME Network. If you were testing Vista on the same network with a Windows XP machiene you may have wondered why the XP computer did not show up in your “Network Map” in the Network Control Centre.
Well the simple reason is that Windows XP couldn’t/wouldn’t respond to the LLTD Call made by Windows Vista over your network. (LLTD enables device discovery via the data-link layer and determines the topology of a network ((802.3 Ethernet & 802.11)).
So in reply to this Microsoft have released the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) responder for Windows XP computers. This in turn will allow you to see a graphical view of your network layout.
The file that you are about is the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder (KB922120). This needs to be installed on each Win XP machine to allow them to be seen in the Vista network topology diagram.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
I don't think this will make much difference with file sharing though. Can you see the other PC's files when you try to browse them via the IP address (i.e. \\192.168.1.10\ )?
Also Vista (by default) uses a different 'workgroup' this may cause your problems, try checking that they are the same on all PC's (Vista default is WORKGROUP whereas Win XP uses MSHOME)