VISTA issues with netserver

Hello,

I posted this on PCTECH the other day but have not
received any response. I noticed some decent vista
discussions on this list so figured I would post here.

I was wondering/hoping if any of you that have played
with Vista so far have had any problems or specific
workarounds in order to get Vista to map to any of
your netserver shares? I know of the issues with
operations console and other Client Access issues, but
I have not seen anything that made me think that
mapping to a share would be such an issue. Did I miss
something extremely obvious? I guess it wouldn't be
the first time.

We have multiple shares on our internal iSeries that I
can not get 3 brand new Dell boxes running Vista
Buisness to connect to. I have looked and search
through countless forums and articles and can not come
up with a solution. 

The shared drive is on an v5r1 box. The vista boxes
all have Client Access v5r4 with the latest apar
installed on them. This server is also our DNS, DHCP,
and lotus server for this internal network. The vista
machines all quickly picked up IP's from the DHCP
right out of the box and were on the internet with no
issues. the server's name is "MMI" and I can ping,
ftp, connect to mail, and connect through our Client
Access emulator using "MMI" as an address with no
issues, so I know the dns is working fine. We run a
Lotus Domino server on the machine as well and from a
Lotus Notes client on the Vista machines I have no
problem opening the Lotus file system and exploring
through and opening the Lotus databses on the server. 

I am administrator on the vista machines. I have UAC
turned off, I have it set to automatically elevate and
I have the personal and domain firewall completely
turned off. There is no other firewall or security
software on the machine, as I un-installed norton
right after I took the machines out of the box. 

I have completely disabled IPv6 on the vista box. I
also downloaded the most recent drivers for the Intel
LAN adapter that the vista machines are using. No luck
there. 

I have tried multiple security setting changes that I
read about, including changing the "Network Security:
Lan Manager" setting as I read about issues with
certain samba drives. None of this has helped. 

The vista boxes will pick up "MMI" in the network
explorer. However if I try to explore the share I get
"Windows cannot access "\\MMI" error and if I diagnos
it tells me that no problem with network was found. 

When I attemp to map the share I get "The mapped
network drive could not be created because the
following error has occured: An unxpected error has
occured". If I then diagnose the problem I get "No
problem was found with the network" 

I then try to sign-on the share using a different user
name thinking it may be a username or password
problem. If I use an incorrect username or password as
soon as I click "finish" to map the drive it will pop
and and say "Logon Unsuccesfull: Please make sure your
username and/or password are correct". As soon as I
change the username and password to a valid account
for the iSeries and then try to map it I'm back to the
"Unexpected error has occured". So it is recognizing
the valid account name and password, it just won't
open the share. 

I have all ports on the server open, and there are no
restrictions. At the moment we have win98, 2000 Pro
and XP Pro boxes all using this share mapped to
\\mmi\netshare (and others) without issue. All with
vanilla out of the box network settings. In fact, the
day after the Vista machines arrived a new laptop with
XP pro on it arrived and we were on the netshare
within seconds. 

I renamed and created new shares on the IBM server,
and every other time all other Windows machines
besides the Vista machiens pick them out without
issue. 

From the Vista box I CAN succesfully connect to shares

on other Vista, XP pro, and 2000 pro boxes, just not
our iSeries server share. 

I am open to any and all suggestions at this point.
I'd especially like to hear if anyone has a Vista
machine succefully mapping to a v5r1 share at all. I'm
assuming at this point that this is possible and I am
hopefully missing something trivial that makes a 5
second process on a 98 or XP pro box turn into a huge
issue for the vista machine.


Thanks in advance. 

Chad
 



 
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