Help with Vista

[Silvir]

I have a computer in my house that has vista on it, and I need someone that is very familiar with vista, as when it connects to a network i have established, it will only access itself and nothing else, it can't be seen nor can it see any of the other computers...

I have tried disabling the network card, and re-enabling it, and yet it proves to have done nothing but take the two connections it finds and puts them to one.  (It is a wired connection.)

Help please, as I have no idea what I'm doing with Vista, my experience from XP to vista serves to no avail apparently...

[Schlup]

That's a tough one...from what I remember when trying to do the same thing there is a file you have to get from microsoft.com to put on your XP machines to allow them to be upgraded to Vista network requirements.  I don't know much more than that but Google is your friend with this one.

[Silvir]

Hmmm, the thing is though that I had it working last week no issues what so ever with it, but then my little brother did something to it, and I can't seem to fix this issue at all...

[Schlup]

Try a restore then...
Click the start button, type 'restore' then hit enter and it should come up.

[Monkey_Grill]

If your connection is wired, how come you are getting two connections?

[Schlup]

Probably because he is thieving his internet from his neighbor.

[Silvir]

If your connection is wired, how come you are getting two connections?

I really don't get it, one is the network, the other is, the network as well, just in a secure and insecure manor...  I really couldn't tell you, but it fixes the issue if i disable and re-enable the card.

[Silvir]

Probably because he is thieving his internet from his neighbor.

Can't steal a neighbors internet that is about half mile up the road... and you don't have a wireless card...

[Schlup]

Can't steal a neighbors internet that is about half mile up the road... and you don't have a wireless card...

Does that neighbor even have internet?

[Destro]

I'd start with a reboot and then issue ipconfig from a command window.  If your network segment (usually the first three octets of your ip x.x.x) doesn't match the network segment of your other machines, then you aren't getting an ip from the same DHCP server.  I suspect that when you disable and enable the network card, it is refreshing it's ip and that is why that works.  If you issue the ipconfig and don't have the same network segment, next issue ipconfig /renew and that will refresh your ip.  See if that works.  Not sure what would be the cause of your problem exactly, but that is the first thing I would do to try to identify the problem.

[DtraiN]

Is it trying to bridge your connection with like the 1394 port or something?

[Schlup]

I think it might be bad news that he isn't replying...maybe he messed up his entire dial up connection now and can't connect at all???

[DtraiN]

LOL poor fellar....Maybe he'll get it up and running again

[Silvir]

It didn't affect the dial up at all, I'm using it on my computer, not the other one.

I still can not seem to fix the issue, it can not be seen, it can not see... but if you direct connect all is well... but that only works with games, direct connection via Windows will not see, can not ping it, and the ip addy is fine, they are all 192.168.0.xxx

When I look at the sharing and network center, it keeps saying that the network is "Access local only", I can not get it to change that, whether i set it to a private network or a public network, I turn on the broadcast me thingy, don't remember the exact name, and instead of saying on or off, it says "Custom", when I can't seem to figure out why, there is on or off, no adjust the settings, none of that...

So.. for gaming wise, it's fine, but when I try to do anything else over the network, like file share, ping, or even a simple network talking program, nothing goes in, but it will send out...

Does that neighbor even have internet?

And I don't know if they do or not, they are quite a bit away...

[Schlup]

You do know that if you enter the wrong network password it will let you connect but only locally.  Try removing that wireless profile from your vista machine, disabling the password on your wireless and reconnecting with the vista machine after having reboot it.

[Destro]

Also make sure you are on the same workgroup.  I'm assuming you are and that you thought of that, but just tossing it out for good measure.

[Schlup]

Yeah, hopefully you left the workgroup at the default.  Anyways, have you not tried the restore yet?

[Silvir]

You do know that if you enter the wrong network password it will let you connect but only locally.  Try removing that wireless profile from your vista machine, disabling the password on your wireless and reconnecting with the vista machine after having reboot it.

There is no wireless card, so wireless is not the issue...

Also make sure you are on the same workgroup.  I'm assuming you are and that you thought of that, but just tossing it out for good measure.

I did think of that, they are all on the same workgroup...

Yeah, hopefully you left the workgroup at the default.  Anyways, have you not tried the restore yet?

I did, and there was no change for some reason... I don't know why, but it made no difference how far back i went, I even went back to when it first connected to the network, and still no change what so ever...

[Schlup]

It's gonna be some work but check this out.

http://www.svabhinava.org/Dia-Gnosis/SuntharVisuvalingam/ComputerBlogs/VistaXP-frame.php

[Silvir]

That information is nice and all, but most of it assumes that all can see each other...

It wasn't til the end did it suggest that I add each IP addy to it's firewall exceptions list...

I will try that in the morning...