Re: Can find Vista box, can't share folders or printers.

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The suggestions earlier in this thread fixed the problems I was having, but
only temporarily. I now find that when I startup the desktop the network
works perfectly and I can access shared files easily. After about 20 minutes
of half an hour, however, the computers can no longer communicate. Restarting
the laptop does nothing, but restarting the desktop will fix the issue (I
thought some wireless network card power savings might be the issue).

Any suggestions on what might cause this and how to fix it?

"Malke" wrote:

Slap_Shot_12 wrote:

First off, that was tremendously helpful - and some excellent information
in general on this topic. Thanks a million!!

I had the firewalls turned off temporarily to ensure that wasn't the
problem, and I've since turned them back on and created the new user
accounts, and I'm having no problem with sharing files anymore.

I do have a problem with shared printers, though. When I go to install a
shared printer on the laptop, it shows the two that are attached to the
desktop. When I try install or connect to them, however, the response is
INCREDIBLY slow. Once they are installed (and I am eventually able to
print a
test page), the response time is so slow that MS Office applications time
out before they are able to print.

Glad you got your network ironed out. As for the slow network printing, I
have a few suggestions:

1. Did you install the correct drivers for the printers on your Vista
machine? If not, that's your next step. Get them from the printer mftr.'s
website.

2. Since I don't really have any information about your printers, I don't
know what's applicable to you so do a Google search using "Vista slow
network printing" as your search term. This will bring you quite a few
links.

3. Post in the Vista printing newsgroup and don't forget to include all
pertinent information - printer models, how they are installed (locally to
a computer running what operating system), directly to the network via
ethernet, etc. The newsgroup is:
microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan

Malke
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