You should still be able to get XP Professional. At least we know that one
works.
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 708-425-4198
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[
mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of albartell
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:01 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Connecting to NetShare with Vista boxes...problem continues
Any ideas are greatly appreciated. I'm up for trying anything.
One time I got really mad at a machine and kicked it. The thing that was
broke then worked! Of course some other things discontinued working, but
hey, you said you would try anything :-)
On a serious note, can you buy Dell machines without Vista? I don't know
why anybody would be installing Vista yet given Microsoft's history of
releasing before software is ready for primetime (remembering my earlier
Biztalk days - yuck).
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chad Carroll
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 5:31 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Connecting to NetShare with Vista boxes...problem continues
Hello all,
Awhile ago I posted on the PCTECH list that I was having problems accessing
a shared drive on our iSeries with new Vista machines. I finally have found
some time to delve back into this issue and am once again not succeeding.
A quick summary, we have 3 brand new Dell's running Vista Business, all
current with updates. I have all of the Vista "enhancements" turned off,
there does not seem to be any security getting in the way. These boxes are
reaching internet, sharing with each other, and sharing with older 2000 and
XP machines that are in the office without issue.
Our internal iSeries is a 270 running v5r1 that we have run our office share
off of for many years. This is an extremely vanilla network. No domains, no
enhanced security, or anything that should get in the way. Every win98,
win2000 and winXP machine that we have had in this office will connect to
this share in a matter of seconds.
The Vista boxes will not connect to this share. I can ping the machine name,
telnet, 5250, and ftp to this machine fine. But no netshare. The 270 happens
to be out dhcp server as well, and the vista machines get an IP no problem.
I have tried all machine and user naming conventions you can imagine and
this does not help
I have just as of today finished with the most current PTF CUM and Hypers
on this v5r1 machine hoping that was the issue. All of these installed
successfully, but they did not fix the issue.
Now to make it more confusing is that we have an external 800 running v5r2
that we can connect to through firewall ip filtering, but this is still very
vanilla, no VPN. From these vista machines I CAN EASILY connect to the Net
Share that we are running on the 800. File transfer works like a charm, no
issues at all.
From what I have looked at the netshare on the two
machines are set up identically simple. I can not see any server side
settings that would prevent this. The vista machines will pop up saying
"unexpected network error" but if you diagnose it, Vista tells you
everything is fine.
So, any of you out there getting Vista to access your shares on a v5r1
machine? Anything different between
v5r1 and v5r2 that I missed that could be causing this issue? This is either
impossible, or I am missing something so simple it's ridiculous.
Sorry for the long post but we are sort of at a loss here. We call Dell
support and after so long they say "You have tried everything we can tell
you to try, you will have to contact Microsoft for more assistance".
Call Microsoft and they say "You bought it from Dell, you have to call them
for support".
Any ideas are greatly appreciated. I'm up for trying anything.
Thank,
Chad
midrange.com
