Ethernet Hard Drive

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NUKZ

Hi,
I was wonder if anyone know a solution for the following problem.
I have a ethernet hard drive and I've never had a problem until using vista
and windows server 2008. both operating systems are unable to browse the
drive, instead it completely crashes explorer.exe. Windows server 2003 & XP
have never had trouble.
 
By "ethernet" do you mean a network drive? Or do you mean a drive connected
to the computer with a cable (in which case you probably mean a usb,
firewire, or eSATA drive enclosure)?
 
hey Colin,

the drive is a ethernet drive connected via a router. the connection type
is CAT 5 , NOT USB, FIREWIRE and etc. You browse the drive like a std remote
drive.
windows vista/server 2008 crashes whilst browsing the drive e.g

//storage/data/ while under XP/ server 2003 it works perfectly.

although if I know the exact path of file it will open fine e.g.
//storage/data/wordfile.docx under vista/server 2008. The issue is
explore.exe which crash and hangs the computer with trying to browse the
folder e.g. //storage/data/

Any thoughts of why this happening with vista/ server 2008 ?
 
Most network drives use an embedded version of linux with Samba server for
file sharing. Some older versions of Samba are not compatible with the
networking features in Vista/Server 2008. The best solution is to see if
there is a firmware update for the network drive. Failing that try lowering
the authentication level Vista uses.

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Networking/ntlm.aspx
 
There may be other fixes needed as well. Post back here if you continue to
experience problems.
 
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