I have earlier tried to implement a NAS disk in my network but it failed,
finally with a blue screen crash. I have recently made another try with a
different unit from the same manufacturer (a small Plexgear box to which you
attach a USB disk device that can then be shared by the PC:s on the net.
Nice, cheap and handy!). The unit and disk appear as they should on the
network with a shared Public folder but when I try to move/copy a folder
from the PC to Public the system crashes (on all 3 PC-based PC:s that were
tried with the previous unit). No such crash happens with a 4th, Vista based,
PC that was NOT used with the previous unit. I hence suspect that some
driverlike corrupted code remains in my XP-based PC:s but there is no sign of
a driver specific for the NAS drive. Is there a remedy for the problem which
does not involve returning to a system status before the first failures? I do
not know the internal mechanisms for NAS attachement in XP
TS

NAS units mostly work with the SMB protocol, and shouldn't need any special
software on the clients. You access them in the same way as any other network
share. The first thing is to see if some special driver or other has been
installed on the clients, and is causing the problem.

"ossian" wrote:

> I have earlier tried to implement a NAS disk in my network but it failed,
> finally with a blue screen crash. I have recently made another try with a
> different unit from the same manufacturer (a small Plexgear box to which you
> attach a USB disk device that can then be shared by the PC:s on the net.
> Nice, cheap and handy!). The unit and disk appear as they should on the
> network with a shared Public folder but when I try to move/copy a folder
> from the PC to Public the system crashes (on all 3 PC-based PC:s that were
> tried with the previous unit). No such crash happens with a 4th, Vista based,
> PC that was NOT used with the previous unit. I hence suspect that some
> driverlike corrupted code remains in my XP-based PC:s but there is no sign of
> a driver specific for the NAS drive. Is there a remedy for the problem which
> does not involve returning to a system status before the first failures? I do
> not know the internal mechanisms for NAS attachement in XP
> TS

Hi
Take the NAS box of the Network. Disable the Network card on the computer
and boot it one time with No card (that will cleanup the Network
configuration). Enable the Card and reinstall the Network and check (without
connecting the NAS) that there is connection between the computers.
Do not connect the box again until you get info from the vendor that it is
compatible with Win XP, and under which circumstances..
Most of these boxes do not use Windows FAT/NTFS format on the hard drive and
some time that creates computability problem.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking).

"ossian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have earlier tried to implement a NAS disk in my network but it failed,
> finally with a blue screen crash. I have recently made another try with a
> different unit from the same manufacturer (a small Plexgear box to which
> you
> attach a USB disk device that can then be shared by the PC:s on the net.
> Nice, cheap and handy!). The unit and disk appear as they should on the
> network with a shared Public folder but when I try to move/copy a folder
> from the PC to Public the system crashes (on all 3 PC-based PC:s that were
> tried with the previous unit). No such crash happens with a 4th, Vista
> based,
> PC that was NOT used with the previous unit. I hence suspect that some
> driverlike corrupted code remains in my XP-based PC:s but there is no sign
> of
> a driver specific for the NAS drive. Is there a remedy for the problem
> which
> does not involve returning to a system status before the first failures? I
> do
> not know the internal mechanisms for NAS attachement in XP
> TS