As far as networking goes, the best description i have heard is "vista networks itself" so in effect, it takes a ridiculous amount of effort to network vista than it does xp.
I personally find that running network setup wizard works reasonably well, though most of my more computer literate friends hit the roof the second they hear that.
basically, first step is make sure both are plugged into the router, they dont even need to be on the same workgroup, next, you may need to remove/alter your firewalls. Try to connect to the internet on both first, if you cant, try network connection wizard, if after running that you are still getting nowhere, go into command prompt and type "ipconfig", that will then display your system's current ip address, find the ip address of the router (generally whatever yours is, but with a 1, for example if yours is 198.174.1.10 then the router is probably 198.174.1.1.
type that ip address into the bar in any folder (where it would normally say c:\programfiles\dumbshit) and hit enter, if you can find the router then there are no dramas with it getting that far.
But yeah, when i did it at Mahonia with Jasmine's computer it all linked up pretty quick, dont worry too much about network names, it generally doesnt matter too much.
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I personally find that running network setup wizard works reasonably well, though most of my more computer literate friends hit the roof the second they hear that.
basically, first step is make sure both are plugged into the router, they dont even need to be on the same workgroup, next, you may need to remove/alter your firewalls. Try to connect to the internet on both first, if you cant, try network connection wizard, if after running that you are still getting nowhere, go into command prompt and type "ipconfig", that will then display your system's current ip address, find the ip address of the router (generally whatever yours is, but with a 1, for example if yours is 198.174.1.10 then the router is probably 198.174.1.1.
type that ip address into the bar in any folder (where it would normally say c:\programfiles\dumbshit) and hit enter, if you can find the router then there are no dramas with it getting that far.
But yeah, when i did it at Mahonia with Jasmine's computer it all linked up pretty quick, dont worry too much about network names, it generally doesnt matter too much.