On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Matthias Titeux wrote: > Le Lundi 19 Mars 2007 00:35, Paul Abrahams a écrit : > > I just got a new laptop with Vista preinstalled (I'm sure I'm hardly the > > only one). Apparently Vista has trouble communicating with Windows XP, > > and the XP solution is to install a protocol called LLTP. A Google > > search revealed that there's been some effort to make LLTP > > Linux-compatible, but the only information I could find about that was > > intended for developers. > > > > Has anyone here succeeded in establishing network visibility with Vista, > > in either or both directions? > > > > Paul > > Nope ! > > I wanted to share files between my old laptop (Win XP + Opensuse 10.2) and > the new one (Vista (unfortunately)). I set up a direct connection between > the 2 computers through wireless, and i never was able to see the other > computer from either machines. I thought, I did something wrong (not an > expert on wifi gadget and windows ;-)) but it might be that new vista > "feature" ! I wil dig a little further when time will be available.
Yes, I share files between Suse 10.2 (Samba) and Vista with no problem. In a working samba environment, just plugging in a Vista machine (with appropriate passwords of course) worked perfectly. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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