RE: Experiences with VISTA

Oh yes! During the 3 hour support call we disable the firewall as one of
many tangents we took. Relative to the IP address my stays fixed. Maybe
because I am running a hard wired network here in my office.  It just
wonderful training the customer support people but at least this one was a
nice person and talked American English even if he was in Northern Ontario.
The HP support people were in India and they have very interesting charging
plan. The cost for paid support from Microsoft has more then doubled for
Vista support so Bill will be able to give away some more billions. We got
escalated to a another call from a more techie techie tomorrow.

Jack Derham
Direct Systems, Inc.

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Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 7:48 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Experiences with VISTA

On 2/18/07, derhamj <derhamj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Interestingly enough, I have been able to ping all of the machines on the
Network and the XP machines show a graphical icon to the Vista machine but
won't allow me to connect with it across the Network. The Vista machine
doesn't show anything but itself as elements of the Network. The  two XP
machines can share files and printers. Maybe tomorrow we will be able to
peal the onion.

have you disabled the firewall on the Vista PC?  also, I upgraded from
XP to Vista and Vista changed the IP of the PC from being statically
assigned to dynamic. Each time I boot Vista I get a different IP.