- I moved a bunch of LJs from my "friends" list to an RSS reader yesterday, because I was having trouble keeping up with my reading page.
- What an amazing pain it is getting two XP and one Vista computer to see each other's shared folders. This should not be difficult! (But it's done and I feel all accomplished now.)
- Quick computer/Internet notes
On the other hand, we eventually had to give up on getting my computer permission to use his printer, which had been a no-brainer back when we were both running XP. Fortunately, when we got the previously-shared HP deskjet we didn't throw out the el rauncho cheapo Epson printer I'd bought back when our old Okidata laser printer died the final death during one of our stony-broke periods, so I was able to hook the Epson up to my machine.
I assure you that I am overjoyed to hear that file and printer sharing do not always go hand-in-hand.
That would be bad, yes.
Possibly we'll use the intermediate step of not sharing the printer and just dragging files into the shared folders for the person upstairs to print.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120
But you've probably already done that, and I don't know that it would be the problem with the 2000.
Other than that, honestly, I did so much stuff that I'm not sure I can remember all of it. Some things I do remember:
* The Vista machine, confusingly, needed to be configured to *not* be a "public" network, because "public" = coffeeshop = higher security. I think it did, anyway.
* The Vista machine turned out to be using a third-party firewall that required configuration.
* I had to add the IP range of the networked machines to ZoneAlarm on my XP machine.
* I'm not sure whether I had to do anything to the Windows firewall on the other XP machine.
* The Vista machine and one of the XP machines were logged in to accounts with the same name, but one of them had a password to the account and the other didn't, which appeared to cause the machines to not prompt for a username/password to access the other, but they wouldn't connect because the passwords weren't the same. Adding the same password to the XP machine fixed this.
* I enabled file sharing for the Vista machine while it was on a wireless connection, and then when I docked it, had to enable it again for the Ethernet connection.
Umm, that's all I remember now.