OT...I need Geek help with networking....vista and xp

.....and I have absolutely googled my brains out. I have done so many
different things from the Microsoft website that I thought I would never get
my internet connection back...

I'm trying to network an XP computer and a vista computer...no luck. Gosh,
xp and win 98 was a breeze....maybe we should file some kind of suit because
Gates purposefully makes things incompatible? Ain't that a monopoly?

Anyhow...what I would like to do is call one of you whiz bang dudes some
evening and have you walk me through the process...

I can pay in cash, trade goods or phone numbers from any number of
countries.....

john

On Feb 19, 1:49 am, "asadi" wrote:
....and I have absolutely googled my brains out. I have done so many
different things from the Microsoft website that I thought I would never get
my internet connection back...

I'm trying to network an XP computer and a vista computer...no luck. Gosh,
xp and win 98 was a breeze....maybe we should file some kind of suit because
Gates purposefully makes things incompatible? Ain't that a monopoly?

Anyhow...what I would like to do is call one of you whiz bang dudes some
evening and have you walk me through the process...

I can pay in cash, trade goods or phone numbers from any number of
countries.....

john

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...ta+C omputers

TL
MC

On Feb 19, 6:11*pm, "asadi" wrote:
yeah...went through all that....that's when I lost my internet connection!
laughs

No help; but a long time ago, I tried the same thing between Windows
95 and Windows 98 computers. I never got it to work, and IIRC, they
told me it couldn't be done (but I don't remember who "they" were.)
You'd think it would be possible, though.

Joe F.

"Mike" wrote in message
...
On Feb 19, 1:49 am, "asadi" wrote:
....and I have absolutely googled my brains out. I have done so many
different things from the Microsoft website that I thought I would never
get
my internet connection back...

I'm trying to network an XP computer and a vista computer...no luck.
Gosh,
xp and win 98 was a breeze....maybe we should file some kind of suit
because
Gates purposefully makes things incompatible? Ain't that a monopoly?

Anyhow...what I would like to do is call one of you whiz bang dudes some
evening and have you walk me through the process...

I can pay in cash, trade goods or phone numbers from any number of
countries.....

john

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...ta+C omputers

TL
MC

yeah...went through all that....that's when I lost my internet connection!
laughs

john

On Feb 19, 11:37 pm, rb608 wrote:
On Feb 19, 6:11 pm, "asadi" wrote:

yeah...went through all that....that's when I lost my internet connection!
laughs

No help; but a long time ago, I tried the same thing between Windows
95 and Windows 98 computers. I never got it to work, and IIRC, they
told me it couldn't be done (but I don't remember who "they" were.)
You'd think it would be possible, though.

Joe F.

It can be done, it is not even particularly difficult. Unfortunately
extremely difficult to explain, there are just too many things to
configure. Also, you need to open ports for listening etc. This is not
really trivial, and you need to be careful that you don´t open you
machine up to general internet access, but it´s not really hard to do.

Just asking "how do I do it", is pointless, because one would have to
cover too much ground.

If Asadi wants it done, then he can send me an e-mail, I will give him
a password for my remote support software, and I will do it for him
remotely over the internet.

TL
MC

This is the usual problem which prevents the different machines form
"seeing" each other;

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120

TL
MC