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Greg
I'm posting to this forum a question I posted more than a month ago to the
networking forum in the hope that the administrators of this forum will do
what those in the other forum didn't do and actually answer it:
Vista laptop connected to XP desktop by crossover cable. XP machine
connected to internet and to external HD. I can access the XP's printers,
share files, etc (most of the time) but there are problems with the external
HD. It keeps disappearing from the network (from the laptop's perspective).
Mind you, the network itself only ever works if I turn the XP desktop on
first. Sometimes when I turn the laptop on the rest of the network is
connected fine (including internet access) but the LACIE external HD has
disappeared and I have to go
through the process on the XP machine of sharing it again to the laptop. At
other times I
turn the laptop on and it is there just fine. I don't change anything. Why
does Windows do these mysterious annoying things? Is it that there has been
some new update downloaded that has reset something? How do I stop it doing
this? Why should I have to reshare the external HD whenever I boot up again?
(or more precisely randomly sometimes when I boot up) Isn't there some way I
can say to Windows, "hey listen, I really really mean it - I want this thing
to be permanently shared, don't ever unshare it again until I tell you!!"?
I find Windows networking really really annoying and from the thousands of
complaints in the networking forum it seems that it never works properly,
even with two identical machines, let alone between different types of
hardware and operating systems.
networking forum in the hope that the administrators of this forum will do
what those in the other forum didn't do and actually answer it:
Vista laptop connected to XP desktop by crossover cable. XP machine
connected to internet and to external HD. I can access the XP's printers,
share files, etc (most of the time) but there are problems with the external
HD. It keeps disappearing from the network (from the laptop's perspective).
Mind you, the network itself only ever works if I turn the XP desktop on
first. Sometimes when I turn the laptop on the rest of the network is
connected fine (including internet access) but the LACIE external HD has
disappeared and I have to go
through the process on the XP machine of sharing it again to the laptop. At
other times I
turn the laptop on and it is there just fine. I don't change anything. Why
does Windows do these mysterious annoying things? Is it that there has been
some new update downloaded that has reset something? How do I stop it doing
this? Why should I have to reshare the external HD whenever I boot up again?
(or more precisely randomly sometimes when I boot up) Isn't there some way I
can say to Windows, "hey listen, I really really mean it - I want this thing
to be permanently shared, don't ever unshare it again until I tell you!!"?
I find Windows networking really really annoying and from the thousands of
complaints in the networking forum it seems that it never works properly,
even with two identical machines, let alone between different types of
hardware and operating systems.