xp and vista network problem

can anyone help me im running xp on my sons desktop and i have vista on mine ive set up a network and he is able to connect to the internet but unable to share the files on my computer ive done all the steps to allow sharing as my daugheter has no problem accessing the file on her vista laptop but when i try on my sons computer i can not see my computer on his network places ive tried installing the lltd and changing the workgroup name but nothing

 

did u try to turn off your firewall on both pc's to see if it could find the other one

 

2 quick questions. 1st did u select any folders hdds or files and select file and print sharing. 2nd does your son's computer see anyones computer in his network places like your daughters

 

i selected the folders for sharing and he see's my daughters computer

 

If you have a router it makes sense that your son's computer can connect to the internet but not see the files on your computer. What I Would try first is reset up the network on all the computers starting with yours. When you set it up use a basic workgroup/network name like home. I believe that with Vista it offers to make a network setup disk for the other computers. I really can not check at the moment because my Psu on my vista computer fried the other day and i have a new one on order. Once you get the set up on yours and your daughters computer working again then reset up your sons. Some times it is just something simple in the setup procedure that you may have missed. I know that one time i forgot to check a box on a setup one time and it took me a while to figure it out. If this does not work let me know in detail everything you have tried and i will check what my networking books say. Good luck

 

Make sure they are on the same workgroup then test while firewalls are off. If that doesn't work, try browsing to the computer via \\IP_Address\c$

 

xp uses mshome as default network name vista uses workgroup just change name one one comp