Networking Two Vista PCs

> I have two PCs connected through switches hooked to a router than were
> networking fine under XP Pro. I have installed both with Vista Ultimate 64
> and they can ping each other from the command line, but I cannot get either
> computer to show up in the network using explorer so that I can share files,
> etc. I have assigned both computers to the same workgroup name. I am
> running Norton, but have entirely disabled it on both computers to allow any
> and all connections to go through.
>
> Anyone know what is the issue here?
>
> Thanks!
> Tony
>

>I have two PCs connected through switches hooked to a router than were
>networking fine under XP Pro. I have installed both with Vista Ultimate 64
>and they can ping each other from the command line, but I cannot get either
>computer to show up in the network using explorer so that I can share files,
>etc. I have assigned both computers to the same workgroup name. I am
>running Norton, but have entirely disabled it on both computers to allow any
>and all connections to go through.
>
>Anyone know what is the issue here?
>
>Thanks!
>Tony

>Thanks for all the advice! Since I did not have to do anything with Norton
>under XP, I assumed it this would be the case with Vista also (same version
>of Norton), but I needed to add the IP address to the trusted list,
>something I was not familiar with before Chuck's post.
>
>I can see the computer and the shared public folder fine. Under XP I was
>able to share the D-drive. I cannot find a way to do this in Vista. It
>allows me to share folders on the D drive, but I don't want to share 50
>folders, I just want to share the entire drive. How is this done?
>
>Thanks!
>Tony

> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:12:06 -0500, "Anthony Bollinger"
> <tonyb@noemail.noemail>
> wrote:
>
> With Windows XP and previous versions, each disk drive had a default
> ("administrative") share. Windows Vista doesn't have this, by default,
> though
> you can get it back with a registry setting change.
> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/06/windows-vista-and-administrative-shares.html>
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/0...ve-shares.html
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/

>"Chuck [MVP]" <none@example.net> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:12:06 -0500, "Anthony Bollinger"
>> <tonyb@noemail.noemail>
>> wrote:
>>
>> With Windows XP and previous versions, each disk drive had a default
>> ("administrative") share. Windows Vista doesn't have this, by default,
>> though
>> you can get it back with a registry setting change.
>> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/06/windows-vista-and-administrative-shares.html>
>> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/0...ve-shares.html

>I tried that. Not sure I totally understand. Does administrative share
>mean automatic share? With or without the registry setting you mentioned,
>the share button for the drive was disabled, but in either case I could
>always share the drive using the advanced button, so I guess I don't know
>what that registry entry did for me.
>
>Thanks,
>Tony