Re: connecting to CEPC under Vista

Have your CE5 devices been updated with the latest QFEs? There was one
associated with SMB that came out in the last couple of months which fixed
some problems with Vista. Of course, your Vista machine will also have to
have the right protocol for file sharing installed (as well as support for
Windows networking, etc.) I think that this is the source of your problem
(although there's also firewall settings, the actual inclusion of folder
sharing support, etc.)

Paul T.

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Hi all

We have a number of CE 5.0 PCs configured to share folders using
SMBServer.
Under XP if we type \\OurCEPCName in the explorer address we then get a
"Connecting to OurCEPCName" dialog box asking for "User Name" and
"Password".
Typing the correct values then allows us to access the shared folders.
This
works great and has been used for the last two years.

If we try the same thing from Vista, we get the error message:

"windows cannot find \\OurCEPCName. Check spelling and try again."

Any advice or pointers very much appreciated as we have customers in the
field upgrading to Vista PCs who are unable to connect to the CE PCs. I
have
just completed applying the latest rolled-up QFEs and this makes no
difference.

Regards

Sean


Registry settings:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Ident]
"OrigName"="WinCE"
"Name"="Creator"
"OrigDesc"="WindowsCE Device"
"Desc"="WindowsCE Motion Controller"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Smbserver]
"AdapterList"="*"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Smbserver\Shares]
"UseAuthentication"=dword:1



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