LaCie Ethernet disk and Vista

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I have a LaCie ethernet hard drive that is supposed to be compatible with
Vista.
I can access the drive from Windows explorer by typing in the address that I
can see my router (Zoom X4) has assigned it (10.0.0.9), I can therefore set
up the user accounts and passwords to match my Vista user account but
whatever I do I can't make the disk appear in the network centre, I can't
therefore map the drive and it is useless as Network Attached Storage as none
of my applications can find it. LaCie are no help at all so any help from
this forum would be much appreciated.
 
I have a LaCie NAS drive too, and I can see it OK in Vista's network centre,
but I cannot create files or folders on it. Mine is attached to a Netgear
wireless router, and although the LaCie IP configuration tool did not work,
Vista recognised the disk OK. Can you see the NAS drive in the 'attached
devices' panel of your router config tool?

Anyone with any ideas about why I cannot create folders?
 
I've just set one of these up and with a bit of tinkering about got it to
work ok (all except Vista backup, but that's another story).

In terms of config on the LaCie box, make sure that you have created users
identical to those that you logon to Vista with, so basically same username
and password. Then make sure that these users are permissioned to for access
to the share.

In order to make the disk 'appear' in the network neighborhood of Vista I
had to also make ensure that they were both in the same Windows workgroup and
also relax settings in my desktop firewall for the 'friendly' network,
basically allowing all comms to be open from devices on my home subnet.

Hope that helps.
 
Thanks Gary, I have done all of that except for relaxing the firewall rules.
I am using the Vista firewall and will try this tonight.
 
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