Having exhausted the many possible workarounds to get a Vista Business Edition Dell computer to recognise my network hosted by an XP computer (when it did originally, until I relocated the broadband router), I took Mr. Microsoft's advice and installed SP3 on the XP machine. According to him the Vista machine needed to find Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) on the host, and if it couldn't find it then "Unidentified network, local only". So, being a believing soul, I downloaded and installed SP3 on the XP machine. Result? Now not only can I still not get rid of the unidentified network problem, I now find that the "search" and the "help and support" services in the start menu don't work any longer, and I can't print emails from Outlook Express. According to Mr. MS I have to enable LLTD first, but it doesn't appear anywhere in the network connection panel. I have sidestepped the email problems by installing Mozilla, but I am seriously beginning to wonder if I've done something to irritate Mr. Microsoft. I used to think I was fairly computer literate, but he has me beaten on this one. Anyone out there any good ideas?
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Even though SP3 claims to have LLTD, it doesn't. Use this article to get LLTD on your computer.
Is the network in Vista set to Private or Public? Right-click Network on the Start menu and select Properties.
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