Saturday, October 11, 2008

Vista / Linux and windows file shares

I bought a new router the other day. It's a DLink DI-624S '108G Wireless Storage Router'.

It sits behind my other router and effectively gives me two firewalls on the way into my network from the internet. The new router, dubbed "Evermore", has a 16GB USB key inserted into it providing me with an ftp server and - I was hoping - a Windows file server ("DSERVER") with shares for making files available inside the network, independent of whether or not any particular PC has been booted up or not.

The only problem is, the Windows Vista systems in the house (2 of them - both preloads) can't see the router-based 'windows' server or the shared resources it offers.

But my Ubuntu 8.04 workstation has no problems at all seeing the server or the shared resources, as you can see from the image I've uploaded here.

Yet again, Linux proves itself to be (in ways that matter to me) a better windows than Windows.
Posted by Steve Withers at 3:32 PM
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4 comments:

  1. UnknownOctober 11, 2008 4:23 PM

    It'll probably never be a better dos than dos either ;-)

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  2. Steve WithersOctober 22, 2008 2:53 PM

    LOL! You must be as old as I am then. ;-)

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  3. UnknownOctober 22, 2008 3:30 PM

    If only I could get that elephant off my mouse.

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  4. Steve WithersOctober 22, 2008 5:21 PM

    bill: Good luck with that. :-)

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