17 Jul/10

How do you make a Vista laptop work with an existing network?

Posted By admin In Windows VistaTips Tags: existing, Laptop, network, vista, work

I have 1 XP desktop, 1 Vista desktop, 2 Vista laptops & 1 network external hard drive. The 2 laptops are on the network, but they don’t see the external hard drive. The vista desktop gave no problems.

2 Responses to “How do you make a Vista laptop work with an existing network?”

Christopher A says:

July 17, 2010 at 9:01 pm

The short answer is – check your drives. Are they all formatted NTFS or FAT32 or FAT16?

I don’t want to spoil the fun for you, so I won’t get into the details. The only hint I would give you would be to make them all NTFS.

Then check again, especially that external drive.
Colinc says:

July 17, 2010 at 9:22 pm

The type of file system is nothing to do with it. On the machines which do not see the others go to tcp/ip properties and click advanced, then the wins tab. Set always use netbios over tcp/ip and turn off use lmhosts.This is essential to browsing.