Vista & shared folders

[hanseugen]

But there is one problem with Vista Home Premium/Basic.
There isn't any 'secpol.msc'. Also 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\Lsa\LmCompatibilityLevel=1' doesn't work.
Any ideas for poor Home-Users?

[hal2k1]

But there is one problem with Vista Home Premium/Basic.
There isn't any 'secpol.msc'. Also 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\Lsa\LmCompatibilityLevel=1' doesn't work.
Any ideas for poor Home-Users?

As a temporary measure, you might try setting a favorite to the following URL:

ftp://192.168.1.1/shares/

[hanseugen]

Thank you for your help. But I use my WL-500gp as a Media-Server with Videos and Music on the external USB-HDD. In this case it is not a real good idea to use the Asus as a FTP-Server (No Spooling, Skipping and so on). But with this method I can save my datas :-)

[hal2k1]

According to this article:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38544

Lately, Microsoft has also changed the way its LAN shares authentication works, and thus if you have a Linux-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance, you might find that suddenly you cannot access shared folders from Vista. The open source camp had to play catch-up and release an update to Samba that implements Microsoft´s changes. But of course, not all hardware vendors have released updates to their NAS firmware, and if you have a NAS unit no longer supported by its vendor, then too bad. The result? The Vista users sees there's "a problem" with the NAS units... and blames the units, not Microsoft for changing the way authentication works, and faced with the choice of having to dump Vista or replace the NAS, they might end up choosing the latter.

Is it possible to get the new version of Samba running under optware, to replace the "doesn't work with Vista" version as supplied in the ASUS firmware?

[oleo]

I did not notice any problems with samba2 package on mine two routers and Vista. On first I use default config, on second old config as it comes with Oleg firmware with additional shares added. I do not use passwords for shares though. Master browser is samba and not Vista!

[clausbruun]

When i had problems with this in the past i just opened a Explorer window and entered \\[router ip]\ in the address bar.

Should work if you have the Guest account enabled in the smb.conf

[dalanik]

I have Vista Business and it works fine for me... (original firmware)