Media Centre Continued & Netgear DG834 VPN
Yesterday I got Vista Ultimate installed on my media centre. Installation all very smooth, except vista not having the drivers for my SATA 150 controller (why not its about 3 years old). Apart from that the install is all pretty smooth and possibly quicker than XP? That may not be actual fact as I was watching the Discovery channel at the time, learning about hovercraft (essential pub quiz research).
Naturally the first thing I after install was install my AV then go to windows update. First Problem, "An Error of Type: 8000FFFF Has occured" brilliantly user friendly and descriptive as ever.
Solution: This problem was resolved by uninstalling update KB929777 which I can only assume was badly installed dynamically during the install. After removing reboot and windows update worked fine, finding only 33 "critical" updates.
Next problem, this isn't a problem with Vista but my netgear ADSL router a DG834 V2. I have two V3's (why see here) but choose to use the V2 as it supports VPN's and my friend a fellow geek Darren has the same router. Naturally we have set up a VPN between our houses so we can stream each others music etc. Heres the problem could we get SMB / CIFS to work over the VPN, no! After disabling everything that looked or smelt like a firewall, and discovering all the ports were open any way it was getting rather frustrating.
Solution: After down grading our router from v3.01.31 of the firmware to V2.10.22 the option to enable netbios traffic reappears within the VPN policy options, turning this on both ends and resetting the connection and all is well, unless........
You happen to be running Vista now (The VPN was initially setup when I was running XP media centre 2005) vista by default will only allow NTLMv2 authentication, Samba (whoops forgot to mention the other end is an Ubuntu Server 7.04) currently is still using NTLMv1. To get Vista to negotiate NTLMv1 open the run prompt (Windows Key+R) Type secpol.msc. This will open the security policy editor in the Management console. You may get nagged are you sure and you really really sure, I dont know as disabled the Irritate user feature at my earliest convenience. In the policy editor navigate to:
Local Policies\Security Options
Double click on Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level
and set it to LM and NTLM – use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated
All a little excessive when the ultimate goal is to be able to listen to Darrens music which seems to be mainly Amerie albums!
Reboot. Bish bosh!
FYI: disabling User Account Control or UAC (M$ name for User Annoyance feature) by running msconfig and its one of the options under the tools tab.
Naturally the first thing I after install was install my AV then go to windows update. First Problem, "An Error of Type: 8000FFFF Has occured" brilliantly user friendly and descriptive as ever.
Solution: This problem was resolved by uninstalling update KB929777 which I can only assume was badly installed dynamically during the install. After removing reboot and windows update worked fine, finding only 33 "critical" updates.
Next problem, this isn't a problem with Vista but my netgear ADSL router a DG834 V2. I have two V3's (why see here) but choose to use the V2 as it supports VPN's and my friend a fellow geek Darren has the same router. Naturally we have set up a VPN between our houses so we can stream each others music etc. Heres the problem could we get SMB / CIFS to work over the VPN, no! After disabling everything that looked or smelt like a firewall, and discovering all the ports were open any way it was getting rather frustrating.
Solution: After down grading our router from v3.01.31 of the firmware to V2.10.22 the option to enable netbios traffic reappears within the VPN policy options, turning this on both ends and resetting the connection and all is well, unless........
You happen to be running Vista now (The VPN was initially setup when I was running XP media centre 2005) vista by default will only allow NTLMv2 authentication, Samba (whoops forgot to mention the other end is an Ubuntu Server 7.04) currently is still using NTLMv1. To get Vista to negotiate NTLMv1 open the run prompt (Windows Key+R) Type secpol.msc. This will open the security policy editor in the Management console. You may get nagged are you sure and you really really sure, I dont know as disabled the Irritate user feature at my earliest convenience. In the policy editor navigate to:
Local Policies\Security Options
Double click on Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level
and set it to LM and NTLM – use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated
All a little excessive when the ultimate goal is to be able to listen to Darrens music which seems to be mainly Amerie albums!
Reboot. Bish bosh!
FYI: disabling User Account Control or UAC (M$ name for User Annoyance feature) by running msconfig and its one of the options under the tools tab.
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