Network Sharing with XP, Vista and 7?

I could really use your help with this guys, please and thanks!

I think they can, but I don't know for sure. How can I check that?

I'd like to share from XP Desktop to the other two, just the printer and the files. I don't want the Notebook and Laptop to share with each other though, it's unnecessary.

Sorry for the untimely delay. I'm positive that they can ping each other as they are able to share files and essentially talk to one another. Therefore that is most likely not the problem.

It's either Dell's driver for the printer (I'm leaning more towards this one), or Windows 7 itself. Or maybe I just didn't do something right with the ports. But, I've tried both known ways ten times to get it working and it still just won't work no matter what I do. I might just have to call Dell, or just deal with having to fire up the dinosaur XP to print.

But anyway, the reason I highly suspect the printer driver itself is because the printer would not work when directly connected to my mom's Vista x32 laptop (as I previously stated), which is the specific windows version it was written for. Why it won't work for my computer through the network, I couldn't say. I'll have to try the XP drivers instead and see if that helps... I just hope it doesn't hose my freshly established install of 7.

EvilOzzmess,

I have just finished a five day battle with connecting 4 Vista & 1 Win 7 system together to share three printers all being hosted on an XP machine. I must have tired 100's of things before I got to this....from a post of mine at Vista Forums...

"In an act of desperation, I took a look at my connection properties and noticed that Internet Protocol 6 (TCP/IPv6) was selected...Don't remember who,what,when where or why, but I did remember that XP doesn't know anything about it."

Once I turned off the IPv6 on the Vista systems, everything started working...I don't know why, but it did...

I am using the ActionTec wireless router (Verizon FIOS). The Win 7 (x64) and two of the Vista (x86) are laptops connecting wireless, two Vista (1 x86, 1 x64) are wired and the good ole XP box is wired.

This may not have ANYTHING to do with your problem, but it was 99% of mine.

I only hope that this may be of help to you...

My Best Always,

Michael

I shall look into that... so long as it doesn't bomb my internet connection or my HomeGroup, we'll be cool. Thanks. :)

LOL,

Nope...not for me anyway...it was a pretty strange battle. Nothing made any sense to me. It did make everything paly together once I shut that off...no problems getting to the internet either.

Now, if I could only get that stupid FIOS WiFi thing to play nice with Windows 7 (x64) I'd be set!!!

My Best Always,

Michael

Alright, so I assume if the router is physically connected to the XP machine, that I would have to disable the TCP/IPv6 through it, rather than through the Laptop and Notebook, right? I'm looking at the properties of my network on the 7 Notebook but the checkbox for TCP/IPv6 isn't there... Am I in the right place to be looking, or is this located elsewhere than Network Properties? Thanks again.