RE: VISTA issues with netserver -- MIDRANGE-L

I'm currently adding storage to my model 600 running V5R1, but hopefully
I'll be able to test this in the next few days.  I'll let you know what I
find out.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chad Carroll
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:24 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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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