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I am trying to set up a Home network.
Basically two machines 1)Vista CTP 5308>AMD Athlon 2800+/MSI motherboard/512 MB/80GBHDD/nVidia GeForce 5600 128MB/ 3Com USB Wireless 802.11g/Realtek PCI Ethernet card 2) Windows XP SP2>Acer Travelmate 4002 WNLCi/Centrino 1.7/512MB/60GB HDD/Ati Radeon 9700, 64MB/3Com USB Wireless 802.11G
Could not install Vista on the Acer, it kept bluescreening after about 35% of the 2nd stage of install (safe mode didn't work either). Installed fine on Desktop.
My desktop is connected to the internet using a LAN connection given by my service provider (I believe this unique to India). Problem is I can't get to setup a small office/home office network on Vista. They are on the same workgroup, XP on the Acer is setup to connect to the Vista desktop which has WF/ICS turned on, browse is enabled, the wireless is set to ad-hoc. The wireless adapters are connecting (I do not have a wireless access point), but I don't see a SOHO network setup ala Windows XP. I have tried every setup possible in Network Center.
Would appreciate any help.
Atanu Ghose CTO Trisoft Systems

Network Center is still rough around the edges. Try a simpler approach, Click Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings > Computer Name > Click Network ID and follow the wizard. -- -- Andre Windows Connect | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Atanu Ghose" wrote in message

I am trying to set up a Home network.
Basically two machines 1)Vista CTP 5308>AMD Athlon 2800+/MSI motherboard/512 MB/80GBHDD/nVidia GeForce 5600 128MB/ 3Com USB Wireless 802.11g/Realtek PCI Ethernet card 2) Windows XP SP2>Acer Travelmate 4002 WNLCi/Centrino 1.7/512MB/60GB HDD/Ati Radeon 9700, 64MB/3Com USB Wireless 802.11G
Could not install Vista on the Acer, it kept bluescreening after about 35% of the 2nd stage of install (safe mode didn't work either). Installed fine on Desktop.
My desktop is connected to the internet using a LAN connection given by my service provider (I believe this unique to India). Problem is I can't get to setup a small office/home office network on Vista. They are on the same workgroup, XP on the Acer is setup to connect to the Vista desktop which has WF/ICS turned on, browse is enabled, the wireless is set to ad-hoc. The wireless adapters are connecting (I do not have a wireless access point), but I don't see a SOHO network setup ala Windows XP. I have tried every setup possible in Network Center.
Would appreciate any help.
Atanu Ghose CTO Trisoft Systems

hi ndre,
Thanks.I have already done this i.e. put both pc's on the same workgroup.But ICS pc needs to provide the IP address to the other pc and this is not happenning. Typically the ICS pc has 192.168.0.1 as the IP (the home network does this) and becomes a DHCP server so that other pc's on the workgroup can pick up their IPs from the ICS pc. I have even "hardcoded" the IP (192.168.0.5) into the client pc but they can't talk to each other.
Any help will be appreciated.
Atanu Ghose
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Network Center is still rough around the edges. Try a simpler approach, Click Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings > Computer Name > Click Network ID and follow the wizard. -- -- Andre Windows Connect | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Atanu Ghose" wrote in message I am trying to set up a Home network.
Basically two machines 1)Vista CTP 5308>AMD Athlon 2800+/MSI motherboard/512 MB/80GBHDD/nVidia GeForce 5600 128MB/ 3Com USB Wireless 802.11g/Realtek PCI Ethernet card 2) Windows XP SP2>Acer Travelmate 4002 WNLCi/Centrino 1.7/512MB/60GB HDD/Ati Radeon 9700, 64MB/3Com USB Wireless 802.11G
Could not install Vista on the Acer, it kept bluescreening after about 35% of the 2nd stage of install (safe mode didn't work either). Installed fine on Desktop.
My desktop is connected to the internet using a LAN connection given by my service provider (I believe this unique to India). Problem is I can't get to setup a small office/home office network on Vista. They are on the same workgroup, XP on the Acer is setup to connect to the Vista desktop which has WF/ICS turned on, browse is enabled, the wireless is set to ad-hoc. The wireless adapters are connecting (I do not have a wireless access point), but I don't see a SOHO network setup ala Windows XP. I have tried every setup possible in Network Center.
Would appreciate any help.
Atanu Ghose CTO Trisoft Systems