Seeing XP shares from Vista Solved !!!

August 18, 2007

I'm using Vista Home Premium on a home network with XP Pro (SP2)

I was having no luck seeing my XP shares from Vista but had no problem

accessing my Vista shares from the XP machine.

For the fun of it I decided to check my Zone Alarm Logs on the XP

machine to see if the attempts where being made. What did I discover?

Yes they were as well as being allowed.

What I discovered though is that all the connection attempts where

using port 80. Hmmmmm I thought.

I then went back to the XP shares and enabled Web Sharing and turning

on Read and Directory Browsing.

Since I only allow port 80 in my trusted zone I have no real fear of a

breach of my security.

One more item, I had installed "Link-Layer topology Discovery

Responder" from Microsoft onto my XP machine. This as well as insuring

that file and print sharing is turned on is all I ended up doing.

Hope this helps anyone else having the same issues and helps save you

as many hours as I have invested in this.

Respectfully,

Trev

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