Vista and SimpleTech NAS

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Just got a new HP Pavilion Media Center system. Fired it up and everything
was working good. Updates downloaded. While that was going on, I mapped a
drive to my SimpleShare NAS drive and it worked OK. I could access the new
mapped drive with no problems. Rebooted because of updates, then Vista said
it could not find the network drive. I can't get it to recognize the network
device any longer. I used SimpleTech's NASFinder on the Vista PC and it finds
the device. When it tries to map a drive, I get the code=5 error. Vista will
not locate the device through its DNS name \\simpleshare in an Explorer
window or with the device's IP address. I have Windows Vista Premium on this
system. Should I have Windows Vista Ultimate to get networking to function?
 
lawsce said:
Just got a new HP Pavilion Media Center system. Fired it up and everything
was working good. Updates downloaded. While that was going on, I mapped a
drive to my SimpleShare NAS drive and it worked OK. I could access the new
mapped drive with no problems. Rebooted because of updates, then Vista
said
it could not find the network drive. I can't get it to recognize the
network
device any longer. I used SimpleTech's NASFinder on the Vista PC and it
finds
the device. When it tries to map a drive, I get the code=5 error. Vista
will
not locate the device through its DNS name \\simpleshare in an Explorer
window or with the device's IP address. I have Windows Vista Premium on
this
system. Should I have Windows Vista Ultimate to get networking to
function?
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MVP Jimmy Brush has a good web page about this issue.

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Networking/ntlm.aspx
 
Thanks, I will try that.

I was finally able to get it to connect and map a drive by using the
device's IP address. I noticed that when the password dialog would display,
Vista would insert the computer name\user id in for the user id.
 
Yes, looks like the LmCompatibilityLevel registry entry was keeping the drive
from reconnecting after a boot. Changing the value allows it to connect.

Many thanks!
 
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