vista home premium networking
I am setting up a small office network. 4 computers. We'll call them A, B, C, and D. All pc's except computer "A" are wireless. All computers have Windows Vista Home Premium. Computer "A" is currently the "Server". All are on the same workgroup. All have firewall on; and file sharing on; and visible to network. Computer "B" is parallel to computer "A" in another office; Computers "C" & "D" are in a 3rd office next to each other. Computer "B" can "see" computers "A" & "C". Computer "C" can "see" Computers "A" "B" and "D". But Computer "D" can only "see" computers "A" and "C" . How is this possible? is it the distance? is there a setting wrong? I need computer "D" to be the new server and I want to be able to share a quickbooks folder. Or do I need to upgrade to Vista Business? There is no domain by the way; just 4 computers that need simple networking.
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Ok; so Computer "D" is not visible to any of the other computers whatsoever; even when I remove the firewalls and everything. I noticed that when I open network and sharing center; the router or network name is unknown and it gets stuck on identifying... so I think I need to do a clean install on this pc.
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Computer had issues where when identifying network type (e.g. private) it would just hang there. So just formatted pc and installed Vista Business. Works fine now.
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If I install SP1 on the other PC's will that help? or should I still try disabling the firewall? Also; how do I give the users in the network access to each other files; or particularly to a folder? when I go to permissions it only shows that pc's user. If I click on another pc's visible shared folders; it asks for username and password. Do I have to add the other users to each pc?