Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 12 13:33:35 CDT 2012
On 3/12/2012 12:15 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Hi Peter: > > That is interesting. I think Windows7 of XP protocols between each other are > not 100 percent compatible but if you use a statement that uses the absolute > IP address you should have no problem. But IPs are assigned dynamically, so when a machine disappears from the network for a day or three, and others reboot, we're screwed. > > I do not have or traditionally work with networks that are domain type which > means everything is centrally controlled through the Active Directory and > the policies setup. Other than that I connect to the servers and station via > Remote desktop protocol RDP. That meets some needs, not ours. We have one *Nix box, five Win boxes and two tablets. Together they support a biz, a professional practice, a set of web development environments & projects, a music server, and two authors, such that most machines need access to the innards of many others. If Microsoft designers don't approve of such a requirement, they can go screw. > > But you can connect avoiding forcing the network to resolve the UNC by > keying in the IP address: \\192.168.134.100\MyShare. (That is assuming that > the Windows7 computer is 192.168.134.100) If you then have a user, other > than the administrator, you will be able to connect, entering the > appropriate username and password. Thanks for the suggestion, but see above. Windows 7 gives us yet more Microsoft (in)security fixes for their daft mutually interpenetrating bloatware architecture. Ugh. PB ----- > > HTH > Jim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 12:04 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Win 7 Prof network puzzle > > Mebbe I should ask the question this way: > > Has*anybody* succeeded is accessing a Win 7 Pro hard drive from an XP > Pro machine? If yes, how'd you do it? > > PB > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >