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I have 1 laptop with Vista , 1 with XP Pro and a PC with XP Media Center. I can't acess the Media Center PC from any of the laptops I can't even ping it . I have ran the network wizard , double checked that file sharing is on and all that jazz.I can access both laptops from the Media center PC. Any ideas ?????
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Do you run any firewall software (ie. Norton, McAfee, ZoneAlarm, etc) on that PC?
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I have McAfee anti virus , but I couldn't find anything for firewall in it ?
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Well I thought I had my problem solved. Everything worked great for one day . I can still access all shared files on the XP Media Center machine but I can't RDP or access my prin ter , I could the other day
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Firewall software must be set to allow traffic on port 3389 for RDP to work. Also, there should be a setting in there to allow file and printer sharing to pass thru as well.
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That is all set to allow RDP , I can access all shared files ,just no RDP
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Steve -
I'm assuming that you have a peer-to-peer network. Microsoft, IMHO, does not do PTP well.I know there are problems with Vista seeing XP computers on the same network but even with XP-XP, I routinely had problems with XP computers popping in and out of the network for no apparent reason. Sometimes I would find that A could see B but B couldn't see A. It never made sense.
Interestingly my Mac sees all the PCs and all the PCs see the Mac. Go figure.
Sam
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