Fix my Vista SP1 network woes, and win free books

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Interesting. I'm using the same router and have a desktop (XP sp3) and a laptop (Vista sp1). I can ping everything from the vista and nothing from the xp. But I have an even odder situation.... when I do the network map on my vista and see all the computers and double click on my xp desktop, the media player for my LAPTOP comes up???

If you get a fix for this, I would very much love to hear the fix. It is infuriating.

a tip

Try resetting your security settings: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313222

Vista SP1 on networked XP laptops

During the SP1 upgrade how did you respond to the prompt asking you if you wanted to add additional devices?

If you responded by adding each XP machine one at a time, then you should have been promoted to enter a unique passkey for each laptop individually. Doing this would have setup a unique ID on your server that, in turn, should allow you to view your network structure entirely. It sounds like you didn't, so here's what you have to do:
1) open Control Panel
2) Select Network Connections
3) Open Properties for each laptop shown in the network tree and note the settings for each;
4) select "Add Connection" for the missing laptop and 5)enter a device name and passkey for the new devise. Repeat steps 4-5 for as many connections as needed to complete the structure.

Both myself and a colleague

Both myself and a colleague were having serious speed issues when browsing the web after installing the RTM version of SP1.

After poking around on the internet for a bit, I found this site and tried out the first suggestion of turing UAC back on. This seems to have fixed the web browsing speed issues, but not the network speed issues.

My PC is used as a test web server, so the rest of the office need access to my machine on a regular basis. Other Vista machines, whether RTM or SP1, were able to access my machine fine, but XP machines would experience serious delays when trying to access any shared folders (all of which have the correct permissions set, and worked perfectly before SP1 was installed).

I might also add at this point, that my colleague who is also running SP1 didn't have this problem with XP users accessing his machine.

After seeing another comment on this blog about disabling QoS Packet Scheduler and IPv6 protocols for the network connection in question, I gave this a try, but it still didn't make any difference.

After comparing mine and my colleague's network connection properties, I noticed that my PC also had a Virtual Machine Network Services protocol, as I have Virtual PC installed and my colleague doesn't. I disabled this, and the network speed issues for XP machines appears to be fixed!

EZ Fix

Enable UAC (User Account Control)
reboot

This fixed the problem

Then I turned UAC back off and rebooted. Still worked.

Forget the AIM stuff.

SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE

Has anyone resolved your problem yet???

I had similar obscure network related problems in Vista Business after installing SP1 RC, and this is what i did to fix it:

- Open the Device Manager (right click My Comptuer and choose Properties, Device Manager)
- Uninstall the Network Adapter/s
- Restart
- Windows Automatically reinstalled the Network Adapters and all was well again.

Failing the above, try check and repair Winsock corruption.
Click Start. In the Start Search dialog box, type: cmd, and right-click cmd.
Click Run as administrator.
Type: netsh winsock reset, and then press the ENTER key.
Type: Exit and press ENTER.
Restart the computer.

Reset the TCP/IP protocol.
Click Start. In the Start Search dialog box, type: cmd, and right-click cmd.
Click Run as administrator.
Type: netsh int ip reset, and then press ENTER.
Type: Exit and press ENTER.
Restart the computer.

Vista Fix

Try running your NIC at a slower link speed - i.e., 10MB). If it works you probably have a router compatability problem.

Could be AOL compatibility issues

Preston,

I encountered the same issue you had with your Vista SP1 RC installation. I finally found out that this was a weird conflict between SP1, UAC and AIM. Follow the following steps and you should be able rectify your problems.

1. Enable UAC
2. Reboot
3. Uninstall old AIM
4. Install newest version of AIM (6.5.7.20)
5. Reboot computer

This should hopefully fix up your problems. Good luck.

Mark

fix?

Go into the Manage Network Connections section in the Network and Sharing Center. Right click ur network connection..be sure that both linklayer topology options are CHECKED..UNCHECK QOS and TCP/IPV6

Network Shares

I have had a similar problem between XP Pro and Win 95 file share. No that was not a typo.
We do still use win95 machines in rare instances for data collection.

Once I found the cause it became a simple fix. The fact you can ping the other machine and
take remote control show that you have a very similar if not identical problem. And while
disabling the firewalls and antivirus programs help to eliminate them. Try this.

Go to Control Panel and open Administrative tools. click on Services and Applications and make sure the following services are running on all PCs: Workstation, Server, TCP/IP Netbioshelper, Computer Browser. If not (disabled) double-click the service set it to automatic under startup type, then start the service. And then try your connection. Remember that Microsoft tells you it can take up to 15 minutes for this to take effect although for me it was very quick.

One other check you can do is click on start> Run> type "cmd" then "enter". In the command
window type the following command Net user guest, it should return a 'Account active yes'.
If not type "Net user guest active:yes". XP and I believe Vista give access to it's shares
via the Guest Account. (Please note that the local guest account in the user accounts
should be off for security).

Good luck hope this helped.