Vista and SimpleTech NAS

[Guest]

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?

 

[Kerry Brown]

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?

MVP Jimmy Brush has a good web page about this issue.

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Networking/ntlm.aspx

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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!