Hi, Guys.

 

  I successfully built a server, precleared 2 drives and started them. I can ping them from my windows machine. I can also access them via Putty. I can not map a drive to the server or navigate to it while on my computer running Windows Vista OS - I CAN get to it via the Web and thru a web browser, though I can get to it as \\tower or using the static IP I assigned to the server from my router... Any suggestions to try? I have already verified that the Workgroup names are the same, and I that I have Network Discovery turned ON, File sharing turned ON and Public Folder sharing turned ON - Password protected sharing is OFF, Media Sharing is turned ON. I am running Windows Firewall and AVG 2012 Free - you think that maybe I need to poke some UDP/TCP holes in the Firewall to be able to see the server from the File Explorer? I searched, but couldn't find anything on that. I do have some File shares configured but not any User Shares...I'm not sure I want to use them.

 

Any suggestions would be welcome...I'm ready to put some media on this sucker!

Well, to continue my review of Windoze Network Security  - I considered that perhaps my problem might be that the current setting of NTLM in Vista. It was set to 3 (NTLMv2 only), I changed it to 1 (not sure - was suggested by another online resource)  and then 4 (NTLMv1 level support, according to Microsoft) - no change. I still cannot see my non-Microsoft Vista and up devices.  So, now I wonder if unRAID uses SQUID?  I found a resource that suggests that it is possible to change some parameters so that SQUID supports NTLMv1 better.

 

Anybody know if this is possible?  My Linux capability is a 2 on a scale of 1 to 100.

 

Here is the URL to the article: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/squid-ntlm-authentication-configuration-howto/ - I looked but didn't see a SQUID.conf folder in my folders - perhaps unRAID doesn't use this? (Or maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree - again  )

Found it - It seems that in my overzealous attempts to secure my computer before I had a network, I turned off the "Network and Files Sharing protocol. After I turned that back on, I could map a drive and everything seems fine.