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SSDP Discovery service unexpectedly stops
I discovered this problem as my UPnP device (a Sony Bravia tv) constantly lost connection with the Windows Media Player sharing server (used as the DLNA media server for the Sony TV and apparently ...
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Samba guest accounts and the “guest account = ” configuration option
I'm having difficulty understanding Samba's guest account permissions. I set the guest account to use my main account on the server but I can only ever seem to be able to modify files if the ...
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Move files across computers with command line (Windows)
I have a VM running XP on which files get uploaded at random moments.
I need a script or utility fit for the command line, that would run every X minutes (for instance) and MOVE all uploaded files to ...
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SMB doesn't work but computer is ping'able by NetBIOS name
I have a laptop and a desktop connected via a router. Both are running Win7, and both are configured for Home network with all the settings such as computer discovery enabled.
If the laptop connects ...
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Map a network drive from a Mac network on my PC
The Problem
I'm experiencing a problem. I the lone windows (7) user on a Mac network. I need to connect to a shared drive using a specific username/password.
What I do
My understanding is I need ...
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Restrict access of shared folder to certain network and certain user
I have a router with local internet provider cable connected. My 2 notebooks are connected to this router through its Wi-Fi local network. I have shared access to folder at my first notebook with ...
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How to configure McAfee to allow network share access?
Someone at an office decided to install McAfee on to one of their computers.
After doing this, that machine could not be pinged from any other machine and its network shares were no longer accessible ...
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How to not require username/password for XP network share?
When I connect to a network share in XP I am being asked for a username/password. How can I prevent this happening. Usually this is not required.
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How to find a fileserver on a different (sub/super) network with Vista?
Background
I live in a student building, that has a large user network (which we use to access the internet), on which we also have a fileserver. When i connect my computer directly to the network I ...
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How do I enable logging of drive map attempts?
I have a mapped network drive (Windows 7 talking to a Samba server). For a long time it worked just fine, but now it's not being restored when I log in.
The credentials are correctly entered in the ...
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How to connect a female connector to HDMI Cable?
** Description : ** I am trying to connect a Legrand Wall Socket female connector to a HDMI Cable. How ever we will have to cut the HDMI Cable and connect it as that socket has a pin outs on which we ...
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Win7 Mounting network drives depending on network
Is there a way of mounting certain drives with NET USE only when you're connected to certain networks? I use this particular laptop at home and at work. When I am at home and connect to the network ...
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Can not access network computers anymore
Last Thursday (03/05/12) I got a new computer to be able to work from home. I plugged it, by cable, into the company network and installed most of the software needed for me to do so, by accessing a ...
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How to set up a network domain at home?
My home network consists of 3 desktops (and one htpc in the future), 1 laptop that comes and goes (and is part of a work domain) and soon another laptop that will be mostly home based.
I've thought ...
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Create network shares via command line with specific permissions
This is sort of a two-pronged question.
I am developing an application that will need to be able to create network shares in Windows Server 2003 via the command line. So, firstly, how do I create ...
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How to share my localhost over the internet?
I really want to share my localhost over the internet to show my friends the progress of the website we're working on, so that I don't need to upload it to the public server each time I make a change.
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net share and CD/DVD drives
I have 2 machines both have Win2K8 R2 Enterprise and if I run the command net share on one computer it shows me CD/DVD drive on other it doesnt show CD/DVD.
On both I am running with a user which is ...
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Windows: How can I reproduce exactly the same blank-password security but with non-blank password?
Having read in Set a Blank Password in Windows XP To Protect the Computer from Internet Attacks :
"Using a blank password (or no password at all) makes your computer
more secure because Windows ...
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unable to delete a network drive in windows 7
I have 3 mounted network drives mounted to the i:, y:, and z: drives on my Windows 7 machine. I am able to unmount drives i: and z: just fine by either right clicking and choosing "Disconnect", or by ...
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Encrypted network share drive
In the company where I work, we're currently in the progress of setting up a new HR server. Right now, this server is in a seperate network, physically disconnected from the regular LAN, because this ...
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How to access network shares as a different user
I have several network shares mapped to users on the login.script (Windows 2003 Domain controller)
I am trying to access a certain share with administrator rights.
The problem is that if I try to ...
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Turn off windows 7 message “could not reconnect to all network drives”
How do I turn off the little popup bubble in systray that says "could not reconnect to all network drives" ?
I am aware that a particular drive is only accessible at certain times so I dont need ...
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Windows 7 turned mapped network drive into a local drive. How do I remove it?
Windows 7 Home Premium.
So, occasionally I have to connect to a Windows share for work from home, and I mapped this share to a Q drive (Convention at the company is to map this share to Q).
I'm not ...
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How to make \\MachineName\SharedFolder equivalent to \\MachineName\c$\SharedFolder on Windows
Let's say I've a folder c:\SharedFolder which I want to share with EVERYONE. I'm able to share it. So entering \\MachineName in windows explorer shows this folder. And everyone can access it via ...
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TCP/IP networking working as expected, but can't access Windows Shares
I am trying to fix a Windows 7 Pro SP1 (32 bits) computer. I have a weird problem. It was working fine until two days ago (didn't do anything weird in that day), and suddenly windows network ...
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VirtualBox Windows 98 mount vbox net drive
I setup an working Windows 98 (first edition) installation within VirtualBox 4.1.12. Network and graphiccard works fine. But I have trouble with mounting VirtualBox net shares.
First I tried ...
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Shared folder on mac: mounted on ubuntu but not writable
I've got a mac (called 'maxw-hackbook') with a folder (called 'work') which i've shared, making it "read & write" by me, "staff" and everyone. I've then mounted it to a folder on my ubuntu ...
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What would be the best way to set up a multiple user vpn
I am wanting to set up a VPN that will allow multiple users with different operating systems connect to my home office so that they can access my data. They won't be connected 24-7, just an hour here ...
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Can't access shared folder of win8/win7 machine - Error code: 0x80004005. Unspecified Error
It's ironic that I, software engineer with 12 years of experience, continue to have this problem from one version of Windows to another without being able to achive consistent result (sometimes it ...
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Restricted SMB shares on Windows 7
On a Windows 7 PC, I need to share several folders, I'll call them 'restricted1' and 'public1'.
Because I do not want to enable anonymous sharing, I have a user called 'public', with a password ...
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Share external hard drive connected to PS3 on the network
I've got an external hard drive connected to PS3 via USB. How can I make it available on the network so that I can transfer files from my Mac to PS3's external hard rive wirelessly?
Mac and PS3 are ...
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Centrally manage thumbs.db for multiple clients on a CIFS share
I have a multimedia archive viewable read-only by multiple Windows 7 clients. Each time the clients browse the directory in Windows Explorer, the thumbnails are re-created. They're useful, but they ...
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Windows 7 Share
My windows 7 shares have stopped working :( I can connect to the shares by IP address, ie. \192.168.1.100 . But I can't connect via Netbios name. And my media devices no longer see the Windows 7 ...
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Troubleshoot network application
I'm having an tough time troubleshooting an application that will not start properly after a move to a new domain controller. The first thing checked was permissions and exceptions in Windows Firewall ...
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Can't drag a Windows network share to Finder's sidebar
After having mounted my Windows network share (cifs://server/share), when I drag the share-icon from the title of the Finder window to the side bar into the "Favorites" section, it appears for a short ...
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How do I browse a workgroup after mapping network drives in Windows 7 Professional?
I have a laptop running Windows 7 Professional, and an office network populated mainly by computers running Windows XP. The domain controller runs Windows Server 2003 (SBS). The W7 laptop has been ...
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NFS shares on Mac OS X
I am trying to connect the NFS version 4 share on my Mac OS X 10.7 with no success:
$ pwd
/Volumes
$ mkdir NFS
$ sudo mount_nfs -o resvport,vers=4 192.168.0.1:/var/teterevkov /Volumes/NFS
mount_nfs: ...
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Scanning directories in my Network via PHP
I want to read all directories of a specified directory via PHP.
(unfortunately Im not good enough in VB/C/Java to make a more efficient workaround)
With this code, I could read all files from /tmp/ ...
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How can I trace NTFS and Share Permissions to see why I can (or can't) write a file
I'm trying to track down WHY I can write in a folder that, by my best estimation, I should not be able to write. The folder is shared with "Everyone" has "Full Control", with the files being more ...
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How to share internet (on wireless) via LAN network in Windows 7?
My laptop is connected to the internet through a wireless modem and connected to another PC via LAN. They both run on Windows 7.
How do I connect to the internet from the PC? What's the procedure? ...
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DroboApps share not accessible
My Drobo-FS is version 2.1.2 (latest) and so is Drobo Dashboard. I have a few shares which I can access without any problem.
When trying to enable the DroboApps share (and install some), I can't ...
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There is not enough space on the disk when there is?
Permissions are fine (inherited) and checking effective permissions everything is AOK.
As you can see i can make a file in the docs folder but not the pdf_docs subfolder.
The folder has a lot of ...
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Cloud sync network share on Mac
We have a system at college where once I log in on any of their machines, I can access my documents as if they were stored locally. I also have remote access to these files from my own Mac over AFP. ...
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Why my home network stop working
I have a hub at home, I use it to connect to broadband and then share this broadband among my PCs.
Previously I made a home network for 2 PC and 1 laptop, all with
windows xp professional, all join ...
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Software solution to use one set of speaker for multiple sound-output devices
In the room I'm currently working in, I have a:
Primary computer, running Windows 7 - connected to speakers,
Secondary MacBook, running OS X Lion,
"TV-computer" running Linux/XBMC or similar..
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Getting error when creating a shortcut to a folder using a user in a different domain than the current system?
I followed the info from this superuser question, but I'm getting an error "1787: The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship".
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Slow Net on Wi-Fi, but full speed on wired, only on one device
I have two laptops, two Xboxes and one desktop.
I have a 30 mbps broadband plan with a turbo boost of 40 mbps.
I can easily download on a wired connection at full speed, but downloading on my laptop ...
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How to access a shared drive from the command prompt on OS X
I have a shared drive called "music". It shows up in Finder without problems.
How do I access this from the command prompt on a Mac? I can't find it anywhere – is there a way to access it?
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Limit size of shared folder in Windows Server 2003 SP2
I have a machine with Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, SP2. The hard-drive is in NTFS format. I am sharing a folder from this machine.
I would like to know if a limit exists for:
the size of a ...
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Why is it bad to map network drives in Windows?
There has been some spirited discussion within our IT department about mapping network drives. In particular, it has been said that mapping network drives is A Bad Thing and that adding DFS paths or ...
