Setting up a small home network

[TiduSquall]

Well basically our main computer is on vista

My computer is on xp

Before everything was working fine, internet was working on both computers. But my computer has had a lot of problems recently so I used the operating system disc to delete everything on my computer taking it back to how it would have been when i first bought it.

Now I cannot access the internet on my xp computer. We remember before using a networking wizard to tell the vista computer that my computer existed, I cannot use this wizard on my computer because "some hardware is not installed" but we have no idea what this could be - and we can't even find the same wizard on vista! or anything that would allow us to connect the two.

Both computer also have the same workgroup name.

So what do I do to properly connect these computers together, as the cables are in place and the workgroup name is the same.

Thanks

 

[TiduSquall]

meh nobody answered yet

basically just telling me how to add an xp computer to my vista's computers workgroup would help a bunch

 

[TiduSquall]

A bit more info:

I did the pinging thing for ip adress, and it worked so the computers are definately connected, but they can't see each other still and aren't in the same network workgroup thing.

Duno if this helps at all...

 

[bassfisher6522]

Read and download this, LLTD Responder on the microsoftw site. Here is the link
Network Map in Windows Vista does not display computers that are running Windows XP
Once you read this and down load this check and make sure that your firewall is allowing access to networking and file and printer sharing.
Also since to reset your computer to like the day you took it out of the box, make sure you have all the latest updates.