Moving to new laptop

My wife has had an XP laptop and just got a new Vista laptop. We want to migrate all her date from the old laptop to the new one. Easiest would be over the home network, to which both are attached via WiFi.

I have set both to the same workgroup, but for some reason one cannot see the other under the workgroup? I can't seem to even access the laptops using the IP address.

Any help appreciated.

 

You will need to add a firewall rule for a trusted zone (subnet). And you will need to turn on File and Printer Sharing. Then Share the folder/files you want to share.

 

Firewalls turned off on both machines. File Sharing enabled on both machines. Still can't see each other. when I go to network places on the XP machine and select see workgroupmachines, it tells me it cannot access the server and see an administrator The Vista machine just doesn't show any other comptuers in the workgroup other than itself.

 

Did you change the work groups? Vista and XP are different.

If same see if you can ping each other IP.

 

Both machines are on the same workgroup.

Here is some more detail and results of trials

Comp A = old XP machine
Comp B = new Vista machine
Comp C = another XP notebook (but attached to a domain (corp)).
Comp D = DVR (fixed IP)

so A & B are on the same workgroup

B can't ping A
B can ping D
B can't ping C

C can ping D
C can't ping A
C can't ping B

A can ping D
A can't ping B
A can't ping C

(Note Comp C is only being used to help the test and its connectivity to others is not important.)

So it seems there is some sort of IP problem? Seeing I can't ping not surprising I can't see the laptops in each other's OS networks.

Next step?

 

Do you have an account on the pc your trying to connect to?
Are you using windows login screen to activate the network connections? (or do you auto come up, no login req?)

Are all pc's connecting via wired? or mixed wireless?

Some routers have a privacy feature the prevent wireless and wired from talking to each other.

I would add a subnet into the firewall rules. This will eliminate the problem of the firewall being active on restarts.

Can all PC's access the www?

 

Yes - but not even getting to the login stage - it just can't find the other computer on the network.

Not sure what you mean - I am trying to either find the other computer in the network neighbourhood or devices in workgroup. I have even tried just entering the ip address.

mixed wireless - all 802.11g except Comp C which is 802.11b

don't think this applies in this case since they're all wireless. not sure i have seen it on my router set up either

How do i do that?

yes

 

This is very odd that the vista machine cannot even ping either XP machine. Keep us updated

 

It sounds more like a firewall problem. Not sure as to where to look. If your running Norton, I have had nothing but bad luck with it and no longer have it installed on any of my pc's.

Some router have a privatecy features that prevent wireless clients from talking to each other.