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  • Damian_Maxcash
    So Fucking Banned
    • Oct 2002
    • 12745
    #1

    Anybody networked Vista with XP yet over wireless?....

    Im fucked if I can get it to work......

    The comps are all on the same wireless router and the wireless internet works OK, but when I try to set it up a LAN it just shows the Ethernet card that is unplugged.

    Surely MS didnt make it so you cant just share a folder between XP and Vista over wireless?

    Any ideas before I throw a perfectly good laptop out the window?
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    • RazorSharpe
      Confirmed User
      • Aug 2001
      • 2238
      #2
      I tried and gave up! Very frustrating but I guess this is one way to get us to upgrade all machines to Vista. Contrary to what many have claimed, I do not have any apps or hardware not working on Vista. Everything basically worked straight out the gate; with the exception of Vista - XP networking of course.

      Having said that, I can't seem to install quicktime ... but I hardly ever use it, I just need it installed so that video editing suite works.

      ...
      Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

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        • J B
          Confirmed User
          • May 2002
          • 1804
          #3
          Hmmm... I got my new laptop with Vista a few weeks ago and never had problems to connect to the machines running XP in our network over wireless.


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            • Damian_Maxcash
              So Fucking Banned
              • Oct 2002
              • 12745
              #4
              Originally posted by J B
              Hmmm... I got my new laptop with Vista a few weeks ago and never had problems to connect to the machines running XP in our network over wireless.
              Did your wireless router have a USB port? - that what it keeps telling me - or reconfigure the router manually to get it working, but that disables the Internet.

              I am even thinking about downgrading the new laptop to XP.

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                • J B
                  Confirmed User
                  • May 2002
                  • 1804
                  #5
                  Originally posted by damian2001
                  Did your wireless router have a USB port? - that what it keeps telling me - or reconfigure the router manually to get it working, but that disables the Internet.

                  I am even thinking about downgrading the new laptop to XP.
                  We don't have a wireless router here but an access point connected to a hub and I didn't have to change any settings. I can access other XP machines whether they are using LAN or WLAN and whether I use LAN or WLAN on my Vista machine. No problems at all.


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                    • Stephen McTowelie
                      Confirmed User
                      • Nov 2006
                      • 734
                      #6
                      so can you connect via ethernet between the machines ? and a quick google suggests your no the only ones sounds a lot like driver issues in vista ! just my though
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                        • Damian_Maxcash
                          So Fucking Banned
                          • Oct 2002
                          • 12745
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Stephen McTowelie
                          so can you connect via ethernet between the machines ? and a quick google suggests your no the only ones sounds a lot like driver issues in vista ! just my though
                          Yep - no problem with Ethernet - its just the damn wireless.

                          Bloody MS - I will be damned if I am going to upgrade another 3 machines to Vista just to use a network that should work out of the box.

                          I will try for the VPN approach - if that dosnt work then I am going for a refund. Fuck MS!!!

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