can XP go with vista?

I'm a newer to the forum. recently, I met problems with my home network. I got a PC with XP, and a laptop with vista. I built a network by router which PC is wired and laptop wireless. they shared internet very well. However, I could not find each other in my network. Even I could not ping each other after I remove firewall.

By the way, the specifications of my current network are following on:
PC with XP Home(SP2)
laptop with Vista Home premium
they have identical workgroup name.
on vista, network discovery is turned on already.
Router: BELKIN F5D7230UK4 wireless G router .
PC wired, laptop wireless

 

They should work properly. Vista usually finds everything else on the network quite well. Are you sure that you have all of the firewalls turned off, and both PCs will accept pings?

 

make sure they both have their updates but I agree it sounds like a firewall issue. If you can't ping each other then something is not right, obviously.

I'm setup at home with my:
Desktop - XP Pro
Laptop - Vista Business
WAP - Netgear WG102
Router/Firewall - Cisco PIX 501
*no software firewalls, only anti virus/spyware on both machines.

no issues at all, Vista sees my desktop just fine as well as all my company servers and workstation at the office over my VPN. I have mapped network drives and shared folders aplenty.

Also, my laptop is on my company domain while my desktop is on a workgroup and still no issues.

It sounds like a security issue somewhere and I'd bet that it might be on the vista side. I have turned off most of the extra security features on vista as they were a nuisance.

 

Do you have user ID's on both computers? And It's easier if both pc are in the same work group.

Make sure the you have added a fw rule to allow the subnet for your network. If the firewall is up, with out the rule you can not talk to each other.

 

thanks guys, I have tried the configuration of firewall on each computer.
Now, I could ping from xp(pc) to vista(laptop). But could not ping from laptop to pc. the firewall installed on vista is notron internet security.
any idea for that?

 

Un Install it, it's a resource hog.

 

I have a similar situation and problem.
I have a new HP dv6253cl with Vista Premium and an older Dell desktop with XPPro (sp2).

We never could connect our old Compaq laptop to the home network with our old Belkin b router,
so I bought a new router (NETGEAR Rangemax WPN824) and I even paid Circuit City's Firedog service to set it up.

But their firedog guy could not get the computers to see each other; saying it was something about Vista.
So I have wireless internet on the laptop but nothing more (no printing, no file transfer) ... the same situation I had with the old laptop and router.

I have tried to run the network setup wizard several times myself, without any luck.

Where should you begin and with what file, if the laptop runs Vista?

 

now, I could ping each other. I didnot uninstall anything, the windows firewall in the xp block the 'ping' from vista. after I configure IP of laptop in it, ok.
but they could not see each other.

 

I configure the network by myself, the router installed in the PC, and it works. then switch on laptop(which has wireless card). from start->connect to, i found my network, that's all.
my problem is the configuration of firewall to let them communicate to each other.

 

even I shared a testing folder in each computer, they could not see each other

 

thanks everone, I got it. The problem is years ago, I set my PC(with XP) file and printer shire protocol off.