I had to get another computer and it has vista on it had my laser printer on it and now I can print on it from any other computer I have 5 in the house 2 other vistas and I can see only the pubic folder on the vista from the xp's, I have went in and changed the network group on the vista and did the folder sharing ( I think ), what else is there to do can someone help please

Thanks

Make sure all pc's have same workgroup name

Make sure you have file and print sharing checked in firewall settings

Set all of you vista machines to Private and not public in Network and Sharing Center

Network and Sharing Center - make sure you have all of your sharing settings set to On also here

Right now I did that and the 2 vista machine can see each other but not the xp machines

I got the printers to work the new vista had a different name so right now all can print on laser ( on the new vista ) so I need to get them to see each other HD

I can see the public folder that's all

Make sure you have file and print sharing in firewall on XP machine also

If you want to share, let's say c: drive on one machine so another machine will see it, Make sure you have c: drive shared

-right click on the drive you want to share (C: drive) and click sharing and then make sure you have check mark in sharing and click apply

Now on machine you want to view that c: drive that is on another machine.
-on other machine, click on tools and then Map Network Drive and then browse - the drive you shared should come up and then you can assign a drive letter to it

For the printers, I am sure you are going to printers in control panel and then adding printer and choosing network printer