> > If it can't network efficiently and easily with XP Pro, God > knows what > > it must be like with non-MS OSes. I'm having trouble > getting it to see > > my NAS drive, which runs Linux. The drive shows up as a > media server > > on the network, and sometimes even shows up as a file server on the > > network, but so far I haven't been able to connect to it > and use any of the files. > > The Home versions can't be used effectively on a network > domain, they are only suitable for workgroups. > > Secondly the later windows are more heavily Firewalled, > however they connect back to XP machines without too much > difficulty in my experience.
Well, I always switch the Windows firewall off on my machines - I have a hardware firewall in the router to keep stuff out of the network. What seems to have made things difficult is that Dell also put a software firewall on the new box. Switching that off seems to have done the trick to get the XP and Win 7 boxes aware of each other. To make the NAS device visible I had to downgrade the security on Win 7 slightly. How non-IT people ever manage baffles me. All I have to do now is get Lightroom on the Win 7 box to import pictures on the NAS device from a catalogue on the XP box... B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
