RE: Experiences with VISTA

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>]

My advise to you:  Drink Heavily... :)

Don in DC

At 03:05 AM 2/19/2007 -0500, derhamj wrote:
> Oh yes! During the 3 hour support call we disable the firewall as one of
> many tangents we took. Relative to the IP address my stays fixed. Maybe
> because I am running a hard wired network here in my office.  It just
> wonderful training the customer support people but at least this one was a
> nice person and talked American English even if he was in Northern Ontario.
> The HP support people were in India and they have very interesting charging
> plan. The cost for paid support from Microsoft has more then doubled for
> Vista support so Bill will be able to give away some more billions. We got
> escalated to a another call from a more techie techie tomorrow.
>
> Jack Derham
> Direct Systems, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 7:48 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Experiences with VISTA
>
> On 2/18/07, derhamj <derhamj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Interestingly enough, I have been able to ping all of the machines on the
> > Network and the XP machines show a graphical icon to the Vista machine but
> > won't allow me to connect with it across the Network. The Vista machine
> > doesn't show anything but itself as elements of the Network. The  two XP
> > machines can share files and printers. Maybe tomorrow we will be able to
> > peal the onion.
>
> have you disabled the firewall on the Vista PC?  also, I upgraded from
> XP to Vista and Vista changed the IP of the PC from being statically
> assigned to dynamic. Each time I boot Vista I get a different IP.
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