Network Discovery: Custom?

[Himagiri]

I am having a home network running with Windows Xp and a Windows Ultimate PC. I want to connect both for file sharing but there seems to be some problem. Whenever i go to Network and Sharing Center to Turn On Network Discovery, it just wont allow me to do so and instead it shifts to ‘Custom.’ What is meant by that? What is ‘Custom’ and how can I Turn it On? Somebody please help. Thank you.

[Jacob.M]

Hi, am not getting which setting you missing actually, but here are the correct settings you need to do:

• Uninstall all third party firewalls.
• Allow file sharing in built-in windows firewall
• Network Discovery: ON
• Network set to Private
• File Sharing: ON
• Public Folder Sharing: ON
• Password Protected: OFF

[Andriy]

Looks like some system services are disabled or not started.
Click Start and type Services.msc in the dialog box to open the services snap-in.
Then check if the following services are started:
--SSDP Discovery
--TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
--Computer Browser
--Server
If not, set the startup type to automatic and click start to start the services.
I also has a vista ultimate pc and was not able to turn network discovery on. I checked in the services snap-in and found that the SSDP Discovery was not started. With the SSDP Discovery services started, I was able to turn the network discovery on.
You should try this.

[bservice]

I was not able to get Network Discovery to go on until I made sure that Function Discovery Resource Publication to be set to automatic and started. Once I did that, I was able to make my network discoverable.