Admiral Huddy
22-04-2008, 10:53
Last night I was called out to install a small home-office network. One of the machines was an XP Pro machine and the three others where Vista.
Not a problem I thought but I couldn't not get the Vista machines to see or map a network drives from the XP machine. Vista to Vista where fine.
After about 20 odd minutes thinking it was a problem with privilages, a quick search on MS found this:
Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder (KB922120) (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120)
This soon got it working.
I've setup quite a few mixed PC on the same workgroup but first time I've come across this.
It's like they know there is a problem and using it to their advantage to get users to use WGA. This stuffs those users who don’t have a genuine license but at the inconvenience of those with. .
The discovery protocol should be a hotfix really.
:angry:
Not a problem I thought but I couldn't not get the Vista machines to see or map a network drives from the XP machine. Vista to Vista where fine.
After about 20 odd minutes thinking it was a problem with privilages, a quick search on MS found this:
Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder (KB922120) (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120)
This soon got it working.
I've setup quite a few mixed PC on the same workgroup but first time I've come across this.
It's like they know there is a problem and using it to their advantage to get users to use WGA. This stuffs those users who don’t have a genuine license but at the inconvenience of those with. .
The discovery protocol should be a hotfix really.
:angry: