VISTA not seeing network HD

All,

1st post, please be gentle.

I have a ext HD enclosure w/network card on my home network. I used XP when I pushed all of my media on to it. I have recently upgraded to Vista Ulti, and am having problems accessing the drive. I can see the drive and open it to see my shared folders, but the OS will not see any of the media. It just hangs....

I have messed with all of the network discovery and file sharing settings. I even tried to do a sync last night but had no luck. When I try and view all the devices in my network map, it shows my media drive at the bottom and say it can't create a link to it. I have read up as much as I could find, but have still come up empty handed.

Can one of you please help me or ask a qustion that would help you help me?

thank you,

ChiZ

What kind of external drive is it? How is it connected to your network? What did you use to push your media to the drive?

Just to clarify you are talking about a NAS (network attached storage device)?

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So it appears you need to look for a firmware upgrade for your NAS from the manufacturers website, in order to allow the NAS to use the same protocols that Vista now uses which are an entirly differnt IP stack than XP.

But then I found a solution, on one of ouraffiliate sites if the firmware doesnt work:

http://www.tweakvista.com/article39001.aspx

If you are like me and have a NAS device on your network that is not compatiblewith Windows Vista,now you can tweak Windows Vista to make it work again. You do not even have to wait for your device manufacturer to release a new firmware any more! Just follow these steps below:

1. <LI>Click on the Start Button and key in secpol.msc in the search box and hit Enter. <LI>When the Local Security Policy editorhas loaded, expand Local Policies and select Security Options. <LI>Scroll through the list and locate "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level." Right click on this setting and select Properties. <LI>Change the setting to "Send LM &amp; NTML - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated" <LI>Hit OK and your NAS will work again. </LI>

Using theses instructions I was able to make my 1 TB Buffalo TeraStation work with Windows Vista. Prior to changing the authentication level, I could not access any secured shares on my NAS.

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Jason,

Many thanks! I believe that is what I was looking for from this post. I will try and apply it when I get home tonight and post tomorrow if it was successful.

--Camride, to answer your question, I am using a Galaxy 3507. What I meant by pushing the media from XP was a simple COPY/Here function from one directory to the other.

Thanks again,

ChiZ

All,

No go on the secpol.msc fix. It's an MMC plug-in found in XP but not in Vista. I did find a posting on a website with a reg hack, which did not work either. I have spoken with Galaxy about this issue, hoping they would provide some feedback about an upcoming firmware update, but no luck there.

ChiZ

Are you saying that when you try to launch secpol.msc and do the stuff in Jason's post that the security policy plugin is not in your copy of Vista?



I tried what he suggested, and encountered no problems.

Exactly, could this plug-in not be installed by default? Canit be loaded from the install CD? To be fair, I tried this fix on my laptop with Home Premium and did not try it on my desktop with Ultimate. I searched the System32 folder and SECPOL.MSC was not there, but I did see other plug-ins.

****In addition, I just spoke with a friend here at work and he was able to pull up the secpol.msc in Vista Business 64.****

I have just found this post from a partner site.

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Remember that cute "Administrator" account you see when you login to safe mode in XP? That's the built-in administrator account that's installed by default, and disabled by default too, after a little digging-in I made this tutorial that'll let you enable and use this account in normal mode, and with a little other tweak, enjoying an XP-like administrator experience, while UAC is left ON (or off, it doesn't matter), but with no prompts or right clicks.

</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000">For Windows Vista Ultimate/Business/Enterprise:</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">

1- Click Start, and type "secpol.msc" in the search area and click Enter. (</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">You may receive a prompt from UAC, approve/login and proceed)</SPAN>
<SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">2- In the left list, choose "Local Policies", then "Security Options"
3- Set "Accounts: Administrator account status" to <U>Enabled</U>.
4- Set "User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account" to <U>Disabled</U>.

</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000">For Windows Vista Home Basic/Home Premium:</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">

1- Click Start, and type "cmd" in the search area, right click on "Command Prompt" and select 'Run as Administrator".

2- In the command prompt type "net users Administrator /active:yes" (Note the capital "A" in Administrator) and press Enter, you will get a confirmation as "The command completed successfully".

3- Click Start, and type "regedit" in the search area and click Enter, navigate to: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\System]
Double click on "FilterAdministratorToken" and set it to "0"

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<SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000">Now log-off, and you'll see new account named "Administrator" is available, click on it to login.</SPAN>

Now you are the master of your domain! I recommend if you're going to use this method is to apply it as soon as you do a fresh install of Windows, so you can simply delete whatever administrator you've created in the setup process, and make this one the "real" administrator for you