[ikka]

It may not be AVG, more likely it is a tighter security setting on Vista.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I don't have any suggestions as I can't even get sharing to work among XP PCs I own.

Could you perhaps post the steps to find this "setting in AVG to ensure file sharing works correctly"? I'd like to give that a shot.

[DYngbld]

Good luck. I have vista on two machines, and xp on three, I have yet to get them to all play nice. I just gave up on it, and use removable media to share files.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Maybe you need an old computer running Linux and samba to manage the interface to the outside world...and your network.

[bubbacluck]

Our firewall is Zone Alarm. All the IP addresses must be in a trusted zone. You may be able to configure this through your router, also.

[Stentor]

I found out that people are starting to endorse Avast over AVG

Works great.Hope you don't mind a deep voice telling you that "virus database has been updated at 3:00 AM.

[thoolou]

Not sure about the Vista/AVG thing, but I can heartily endorse Avast! Been using it for about five years, and have *never* had a problem. Looking at getting the Enterprise edition for the office network. :)

FWIW, I have read a few things about AVG 8 being a bit “twitchy”. Can you go back to 7.x?

[Arizona Carolyn]

Good luck. I can’t even get one of my programs that works on XP work on my computer that is XP Pro..

[waynesa98]

Sharing is possible between vista and xp. First remember that both have firewalls. Find your intranet ip address it will be something like 192.xxx.xxx.xxx, for all the computers on your net work and any router you might have. Depending on the firewall (windows or norton for instance) you will need to make the router, if you have one, a trusted network. You will need to make the computers trusted as well, and then set the specific folders/drives on both machines to be shared.

[MahatmaGandu]

I will pray for you.

[raybbr]

Tech ping

[Kolb]

Temporarily disable the firewall on each computer and check again to see if the Vista shares are visible/ available. If they are then the firewall(s) are blocking file sharing and/or untrusted IP addresses. The firewall trust settings will need to be adjusted or leave them turned off (not recommended) while sharing.

[21stCenturion]

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[Dinsdale]

You can do it but you’ll have to give MS a lien on your soul.

Who knows the implications of some of the more gruesome occult rites involved in the ‘end user soul lien buy-back work around’...it’s got to leave a mark.

[usconservative]

WinXP machines require a client to access Vista shares. It's called the Link Layer Topology Discovery Responder client. Here's the instructions and a link to the client that you'll need to download onto your XP machines.

Solution

For computers running Windows XP to appear on the Network Map diagram, you must download and install the LLTD Responder component for WindowsXP. With the LLTD Responder, a computer running Windows XP can respond to other Windows Vista computers on the network that are attempting to create a network map.

To install the LLTD Responder to a computer running Windows XP

1. Download the update for Windows XP from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70582

2. Run the update on the computer running Windows XP that you want to appear on the Network Map.

3. On the Software Update Installation Wizard, click Next.

4. On the License Agreement page, read the license agreement, and if you agree to the terms, click I Agree, and then click Next.

5. On the final page of the wizard, click Finish.

6. If you are prompted to do so, restart your computer. 7. After your computer running Windows XP restarts, generate a new Network Map with the computer running Windows XP included.

Download and install Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) onto the WinXP machines. This enables the network map in Vista to show all machines on the network.

Link to LLTD Client for WinXP Machines.

[ShadowAce]

[martin_fierro]

Then it hit me, maybe my anti-virus / firewall is causing the problem. I've been running AVG 8.0 for a year

AVG is a firewall?

[Skooz]

bump

[raybbr]

I can see, after following the advice on this thread, files back and forth from my Vista to XP machine.

[DaGman]

It may or may not be AVG. I have found AVG 8.0 too big and clumsy. It’s starting to resemble Norton. So I switched to Avast. Runs great, non-intrusive, works well on the lone Vista machine on our network.